New Year's Eve 2019

We had a great night up at our friend's cabin again this year.

It's been great to have Mel home over for the break!

We "adults" spent the night eating and visiting, and the kids spent it drinking and spilling hot chocolate, and playing...

Plus there was all the usual fun: Swinging in the swing (pics 3-6)

...Playing with friends and new faces -

Daniel and Owen spent most of the night hogging attention from these two cute twin girls -

I don't now their names, but they were so cute to play with Owen and Daniel and let them basically harass them for hours.

...Foosball - Natalie's ready to score a goal

...Ping pong (Ethan turned it into a game of sting pong with the elementary boys in the neighborhood. Wes got stung a few times too)

Around 9:40, people started to prepare for the ball drop. We do it early at New York time, so we welcomed 2020 at 10pm. Then the traditional Polar Bear Challenge at the stroke of midnight -

This is Ethan's last year since he'll be on his mission next new years! He ran around the cabin barefoot -

Wes and Abi joined in with the rest of the kids. We coached them all through recovery and comforted them until they had feeling back in their feet. Then we hung around and visited more. Daniel was dancing for us, it was SO cute and funny. I wish I got all of his dances and strike-a-poses on video, he is cute cute.

Then Corey headed home to spend the night with Hyrum and get some skis that were left. They are all going skiing tomorrow. I went to bed shortly after midnight with Peter, cause he had had enough fun for the day. I told MelWesAbi to be sure the little boys got to bed! Goodbye 2019! We'll meet you tomorrow 2020