Happy New Year!

I think that it's official in that we are getting old.  Here were are plans for New Year's Eve:  

• Drop Kasia off at Granny and Poppy's house for the night.  
  
• Go home and fix a few drinks.
• Watch a movie.
• Fall asleep.
• Wake up before midnight.
• Watch the ball drop, kiss each other, and wish each other a Happy New Year.
• Go to bed.

That's kind of how we did it last year, and it sounded so good to us that we thought we'd do it again.  But then... then Steve and Angie had to change everything.  They wanted to know if we wanted to all get together.  Now how are we supposed to fall asleep on the couch when we have company over?  Anyway, we all got together and discovered that we weren't as old as we thought.

Steve, Angie and the kids came over in the evening and Kasia and Riley started playing right away like they were long time friends.  There was no hesitation, which was really cool.  Peyton had fun playing Nintendo for most of the evening, and I played with him as long as I could without appearing to be unsocial with the adults.  

Then Kathy and Jeff stopped by.  They brought over pizza, and we all ate and had some drinks until late into the night.  Then around 11:30pm, everyone decided to brave the cold and wind and went home.  We turned on the TV, and waited for the ball to drop.  Kasia tried her hardest to stay up until midnight, but she fell asleep on the couch about fifteen minutes later.  She played hard most of the night and just couldn't make it to the end.

Kara and I then counted down to the New Year and had our New Year's Kiss.  We watched some of Dick Clark, as we heard this was going to be his last year doing the New Year's Eve special... and that's probably a good idea.  He may be the guy who never aged, but having a stroke can definitely take its toll.  He had a good run, but it's probably time for him to move on.

We hope that everyone else had a wonderful New Year's and hope that everything is starting off on the right foot.