Happy New Year 2011!

It is another new year and I must say I am looking forward to it.

2010 flew by way too fast and I have a hunch 2011 will do the same.

I am keeping my fingers crossed that this year will be a

little less eventful than last year.

Last night was New Year's Eve and I probably should have

taken some pictures of our get together.

I was too busy having fun to think about the camera.

Actually that isn't the whole truth. 

There were many times when I thought
 "I should go take some pictures of this",

 but I was too lazy to go get the camera. Oops.

Last night we didn't have a huge group just our family, Mom and Dad,

 Nathaniel and Jenny's family, and Soung-Jo and his family

 came by for a couple of hours.

It was Jee Hoon's 11th birthday, so that was a great excuse for
some cake and ice cream -

 as if we ever really need an excuse! I do have 1 birthday picture, yay!

After cake and ice cream we played lots and lots on the Wii.

And then we played card games and aggravation.

Mom and Dad won aggravation about 20 minutes before

the new year for possibly the 1st time of 2010!

 I started the new year off with a HUGE mistake.

We let all of the kids stay up until midnight and the

dad's were playing on the Wii.

We discovered last night that the clock on my stove

 is about 5 minutes too slow.

Which explains a lot of things,

like why we are always 5 minutes late to church and

 also why it always looks like it takes 12 minutes to get the kids in the car.

I made the boy's turn off the game so that we could

all watch the ball drop, that's when we found out it was 12:01

and the ball had already dropped. 

 We got to watch the very last of the confetti though,

which it not exciting at all. 

We also got to watch a replay of the ball dropping on

some people's camera phones,

which is also not exciting at all.

Isabelle was crying on her way to bed because she

thought we had missed the new year.

I had to explain to her that we still had plenty of year left.

Nathaniel and Jenny's family stayed the night. 

Isabelle and Natalie slept in Isabelle's room and they

didn't go to sleep until around 1:00.

It was amazing that the kids didn't fight at all today, but all of them

took turns crying multiple times today for no particular reason.

We all just sat around and ate snacks and played all day.

Not the most productive way to start the new year,

 but that is what Monday's are for.

I am keeping my fingers crossed that this year will be a wonderful one.

I hope and pray that everyone we love will be safe and healthy!

We may not be able to get everything we want,

but hopefully we can have everything we need.

I am grateful to start our the new year with

family and friends we love, with good health,

and a comfortable house.

We are truely blessed.