Bekah's Bits: What Were We Doing New Year's Eve?

Thursday, January 03, 2013

What Were We Doing New Year's Eve?

I'd been SO looking forward to my first New Year's Eve as a wife!!

If I go anywhere at all to ring in the new year...it's usually to see my friends, the Hancocks. Ryan had only met them once...last September...very briefly at church one morning, when we went to see their daughter, Savannah, get baptized. So we decided to go there for New Year's Eve!

As always...the food was uh-mazing. {Including those bacon wrapped bbq shrimp thingies. Sigh. Be still my beating heart...}

Two-thirds of my kiddos. These two almost always knock me over at the door with much love and many hugs...and then they like to sit as close to me as possible. I am quite sure I burned at least a few extra calories....enough for one of the bacon wrapped bbq shrimp thingies to be a cancel-out....I mean surely.

Much to Ryan's surprise, I agreed to play Wii Bowling. I don't think he expected me to so readily agree to a game. Not much can damage me in this one. I'm unlikely to break a nail {like in real bowling} and the risk of yelling out something stupid {like in Catch Phrase} is minimal. So yes. I am happy to Wii bowl.

See? Toldja!!!

I was trying to cause Ryan to mess up by flashing the camera light...but he's a good one and did not let that bother him IN the least. Can't blame a girl for trying!

I mean I hate to brag and all...but um.... LOOK WHO WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Even though it was a lot of fun to spend the evening with our friends...I was also glad we sneaked out about 10:30 to come back home and ring in the new year in our own home...just the two of us. I'd planned a little New Year's Eve/New Year's Day date...so that started when we got home from the party!

We spent some time in prayer before midnight...it has been a very full year - with heartbreak and joy for both of us - and we wanted to spend time acknowledging that before our God. I am so thankful that Ryan is the kind of man who wants to pray in a new year. Can't even tell you how much I love that.

I had one more bottle of Biltmore Sparkling Grape Juice saved from this summer...so I pulled that out and added this tag, which I found through...of course, my friend Pinterest!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2013!!!!!!!

I found these little number candles at the dollar store...so I put them in 3...2...1 order and put a star in for the HAPPY NEW YEAR! (Cake is an ice cream cake I found in the grocery store freezer.)

And of course...noisemakers. {It occurred to me later that noisemakers + cat + open flame on the candles might NOT have been the greatest of ideas...}