Happy New Year! 2011!

I'm not going to lie: the benefit of having kids is that you are no longer expected to stay up until midnight in order to celebrate the New Year. As a parent, you can say your "hoorahs!" after dinner with the kiddos and then hit the sack at 10pm without anyone judging you (hopefully). This year, we invited over Avery's buddies, Luke and Levi, to help Avery and the Sattelmeyer cousins ring in the New Year. We had awesome weather for the day...70 degrees and sunny! Ironic, seeing as how it had snowed only 5 days ago.

Simulated rock climbing??

Luke patiently waits his turn to demonstrate his mad climbing skills.
Thank goodness for the indoor slide (that takes up half of the living room, haha)!

Avery showing off his moves on the slide.


This is what four boys on one slide looks like....just a little bit of congestion!

Who is the genius who bought these extremely noisy and overstimulating clackers???

Avery is down with the clacker, but unsure about his New Year's "tiara".

Rockin' out the New Year's hat. Much more manly.

I think this poor dog was as tired and overstimulated as I was!

Happy New Year's!