New Years Celebrations

My fantastic brother Garrett and his cute (pregnant) wife Emily ventured down to Vegas last week to hang out with some of their adorable nieces (Kirsten latched right on Garrett, Audrey took a few days). They got here Friday just in time for warm chocolate chip cookies (a must for when Garrett visit's). That night the girls went and hung out with Adam while the four of us enjoyed dinner at Cheesecake Factory. Such good food! We had a great time chatting and taking pictures of each other. Ya we are that cool.

Friday we broke out the Construction game and played for hours and hours and hours. Then we took a break and went to Petco. Garrett is great at getting us to our local pet stores! The girls LOVED it! I kinda felt foolish that I had never thought to bring them there before(but hey they like Target too). Petco has these adorable little carts and the girls had a wonderful time shopping. Audrey specifically loved the fish and Kirsten was huge fan of the mice, go figure.

We came home, had dinner, but the girls to bed and played more construction game. Garrett and Emily were so fun to play board/card games with. In addition to the construction game we played 2 games of bs, 4 games of Schank, 2 games of hand & foot, Egyptian Rat Screw, Sorry, Clue, Life, countless songs on Rock band, and close to a million levels on Mario Brothers. That's right we know how to have fun.

New Years Eve was celebrated by looking over our fence to the fireworks going on at the strip. It was really cold here so we just played warm and stayed inside playing games (bet you could have guessed that!) I got my New Years kiss from Kirk though so most of my resolutions are finished. See the fireworks between the street light and our neighbors house?

 

New Years day we went bowling at Red Rock. It was a lot of fun. Kirsten turned out to be the best bowler among us, she rolled the ball down the lane ever so slowly, at one point almost going into the gutter but it swerved and slowly slowly crept to the pins and STRIKE! Kirk proved to be better than any of us adults. I did pretty good until they took our bumpers down, apparently you can only use them if you are under 80 pounds. lamesauce Aren't they cute?

 

PS do you spot that red sippy cup she can't live without?