New Year's Eve Celebrations!

I love to celebrate the holiday's with my family....unfortunately MY family [that being my sisters and brothers in law don't like to do the same sometimes......many times! gggrrrr  It is a frustration.  So what do I do?   I make the best of my family.  As I hope that one day they will appreciate spending the holiday's with each other and want to continue our little traditions....Traditions again?  Yes. Traditions.

This one we have done for at least the past 5-6 years.  It is pretty fun.  We have a table of bags set up starting with 7:00, then 8:00, 9:00 and so on until 12:00.  These are not just ordinary bags! Nope!  These are bags filled with goodies.  Yes they change every year.  As we like to adjust them with the boys interests [and well lets face it.  Whatever may be on sale at the time! :)]

This year we had quite a few 'new' items and the boys had fun.
7:00 - Football cards/books for Ella
8:00 - Puzzle.  This was quite a challenge and frustration to Gregg.  He is the HUGE fan of puzzles.  However, I messed up and didn't realize a 1000 piece puzzle was so beyond attainable even in the smallest part in an hour.  He got upset.  So Sorry.  BUT we ended up putting it together later and not only did it take more than 1 hour it took several days! **Note next year if we do a puzzle it will be a 100 piece!**
9:00 - Game - This year we got Millionaire Monopoly.  It was so much fun!
10:00 - Movie
11:00 - CANDY
12:00 - Silly String [That is still all over our front porch....darn boys], and poppers snap thingys

The point is to just open a bag at the beginning of each hour.  Let's face it Gregg and I am getting old.  It is hard sometimes for me to stay up til midnight.  This keeps us awake!  The boys are engaged with a new activity each hour and it makes the time fly.  It is seriously so much fun!  I really hope the boys love it as much as I do!  I think they do.

They get to celebrate each count down hour and then the fun noisy stuff at the end!  We also have a little tradition of ringing in the new year with a bottle of sparkling cider with everyone.  The boys love that!  I just love spending time with my family.  I hope they will one day keep these fun things going and we can all keep it together and they will ask, "don't we always do _____ on _______" fill it in for whatever activity and holiday.