Happy New Year!

We were all too happy to say goodbye to 2013. The past year was filled with a lot of sadness with the deaths of my mother and Chris' father. Plus, we lost two pets as well. James' hamster Sushi and Hannah's rat Sadie died, too.

We decided to usher in the new year with a family game night. We made it a "technology free" evening for most of the night.

Hannah made me pick up some Christmas Crackers during our shopping trip. The kitties were quite curious about them.

That is until we popped them! Then they fled the area.

We all put on our silly hats that came from the poppers. 

Everyone picked out one game to play. The first one was my choice -Yahtzee.

Qwirkle was our next game.

We made some hot chocolate.

Then we decided to take a break from the games. It was time for the hot tub! James took advantage of the break to play on his computer. We had a nice view of fireworks from the hot tub.

We came in & changed into our pjs, then it was time to watch the traditional Dick Clark Rockin' New Year's Special with our special beverages.

After midnight, we decided to pass on the rest of the games. Mom & Dad were tired! Happy New Year!!!