New Years Eve - Family Time

Today was a spectacular day. Truly it was! Bill woke up early that morning and went hunting with two very good friends. The boys and I hung out all morning and did some painting. We did handprints and footprints. We are making a calendar for the Great Grandma's/pa. Daddy got home around noonish. Daddy took a shower and got ready and then we all snuggled on the couch for a bit. Then I went and took a shower and got ready and then we went shopping. Tomorrow we are celebrating Christmas with my family and we needed to pick up a few things. Today was a first. We attempted a super busy shopping mall with two toddlers and NO... I repeat NO stroller. Oye. Let me say this, Billy was amazing. He held Daddy's hand the whole time and took silly crazy steps everywhere ;) Finn, well let me give Finn some credit. It was well after 2 p.m. and he had no nap. So therefore he wasn't up to par ;) He ended up wanting to be carried after awhile. Lets just say my left arm is significantly stronger than my right and still actually hurts, lol!

Once we were finished there and got everything done we went shopping for Daddy! He had a giftcard at Cabela's that needed to be used ;) and off the The Mills we went! The boys were as good as they could be considering no naps had happened that day and it was dinner time. While Daddy looked at all the fly fishing stuff, decoys and whatnot the boys and I took a little adventure around the store and looked at all the 'stuffed animals' ;) We made it to the aquarium and I have to admit, we were all in awe! We stayed in there for over a half an hour and looked at all of the fish. The one that we stayed closest to was the BIG catfish. He was bigger than Billy! Its so cute, I taught the boys, well more Billy since he's older and understands the concept a little better. We made our fishy faces and made our bloop bloop noises and tried to eat the catfish! It was so stinking cute, we got down and looked at the fishes and talked to them. Then we were so surprised, the fish came over to the glass and gave us a KISS! No really he did. It was awesome! We were so excited. Unfortunately it was time to go, the store was closing early since it was NYE and we had to go check out.

On the way home I kept throwing hints that I wanted to go out to eat ;) Finally Bill asked, "Do you want to go out?" LOL. We ended up at Chuck E Cheese. It was honestly one of the best times ever. We got food, ate, and then took our tokens and put them to good use! We had so much fun! I cannot wait to treat them to a special treat again and go :D

We got home at bedtime for the boys. We got the boys snuggled up in their pj's, cuddled for a bit then put them to bed. Bill and I sat at the kitchen table together. We had our drinks and we worked on our projects together ;) We actually made it up until midnight and said Happy New Years to one another, heard the guy upstairs screaming and realized he was screaming Happy New Years and figured he was ok (lol), we heard fireworks going off too and then I went into the boys room and wished them a Happy New Year in a wisper and kissed each one of them and then we fell sound asleep!

Happy New Years everyone!