Happy New Year!!

Well, New Years was a blast. We started out by going to the church building with a bunch of families from Milano because none of us can fit the whole group in their house.  We played games in the gym and had lots of yummy foods.  Katie set up a disco ball and some music and I brought a fog machine.... Yes a fog machine.  Now, if you are ever at a public building, or anyplace with a fire alarm, don't use a fog machine.  Paul turned on the fog machine and it wasn't 30 seconds before the fire alarms in the church were going off.  Imagine flashing lights, lots of fog,and a loud electronic voice over the speaker, "ATTENTION, ATTENTION, THE BUILDING IS NOT SAFE.  PLEASE EXIT IMMEDIATELY".  The voice repeated itself over and over.  Someone quickly grabbed the fog machine and put it in the hallway.  Then we opened all the doors and tried to air it our with the electronic voice blaring at us.  Kids were running wild having a great time!  little did we know the fog machine was continuing to go off in the hallway.  I took and and ran it out to my car to hide the evidence before the fire truck got there.  An inevitable fate.  Sure enough they came.  At least they were nice.  They had to set up a big fan outside the gym.  It was exciting to say the least. After the fireman left we got back to partying.  Someone brought a Wii Dance and a projector.  So they set that up, along with the disco ball and the kids danced.  After that we went home for fireworks.

Fireworks!  It was a little cold.

Ellie and one of the twins

Oh, Paul is so big, he is showing Kyle how to light the firework.  Is bare feet and fireworks a good idea?  I'll blame it on Micah, he was in charge of the fireworks.

 And that was our New Years. Off to a great 2013!