And A Happy New Year...

I never officially wished you a happy new year, did I? Where are my manners?

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Our December was so chaotic...and I spent the last few days of it trying my best to fight off the Petri Dish Madness that wafted through all our Christmas gatherings, so if I'm honest, I really wanted to spend New Year's Eve at home. In my jam jams. Asleep. But I am 36 years old, still a newlywed, and I refuse to give in to that just yet.

Ryan and I were invited to the same party we went to last year...friends of his from before our married days. The hostess and I put our heads together to have a photo booth at the party, because she had seen all the fun our family had with the photo booth during Christmas. So we pooled our resources and had some fun with one for New Year's Eve, too!!

The hosts have a game room, complete with ping pong, pinball, and that little arcade basketball game. Ryan and I may have had more fun than we should have during our visit!!

Ryan took on the host's son in ping pong and won 2 out of the 3 games.

I took on pinball and have no idea what happened, except I had fun.

Ryan and I took on each other in basketball and he won. By a LOT.

Then we joined the other party-goers for some Balderdash and some random trivia game and a guessing game, in which celebrity names were put on our backs and we had to guess who we were.

Ryan was Barack Obama. Took him a while to figure that one out.

I was Jessica Biel. My main clues were that I was a pretty, brown-haired actress. There are a LOT of those. Took me forever to figure that out.

And then there was the fun with the photo booth!!

Our hosts: Anthony, Nicole, and one of their three kiddos: 

 Yeah we're not silly. At all.

 With Barb...one of my friends from our days at Sycamore {the church we attended when we got married}. We haven't seen her since the last party!

 Awwwwwww.

The booth was fun!! The kids had a great time with it - and so did the adults. If you're having a party soon, may I highly recommend adding one of these? It's easy, inexpensive fun!

When we got close to midnight, we switched over to watch the ball drop!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

Which, of course, we toasted with coffee:

And it was a good start to the new year! Ryan ended up getting the day off work, something neither of us expected, but it was a JOY to have him home with me on New Year's Day. I spent most of the day resting, but we did take some time at the end of the day to go through our box...the one where we keep all our memorabilia from throughout the year...do a little reminiscing, and a little forward thinking for the year to come!

So it's a great start to the new year! Hope you had a lovely time...doing whatever you did to ring in 2015!