Happy New Year!

2 days after Christmas, Ezra started throwing up! That only lasted 12 hours, but then he got the big "D". It's not fun changing "D" diapers. He's now had it for 5 days and we have been stuck in the house since Christmas and haven't been able to invite anyone over at all! Poor Ezra will walk up to me and say... "Mom, Deah Riah... with a big sad face." It's funny, cause how he says it sounds like a name we would name one of our boys. haha! So since Ezra has the "D", we couldn't invite anyone over or go anywhere for New Year's Eve. Since we've lived in this house, that's what we've done. I'll be honest, it's not a whole lot of fun playing games with my kids, because they usually fight or Ezra destroys the game somehow. But I wanted to make the evening special for the kids.  Create good memories.  So I made homemade pizza, which is aboslutely delicious and a special treat for us... because I make nothing homemade! And it was and still is a tradtion in the Meyer Family.  I also bought chips and dip, which we never ever have. And candy and cookies, which we never have! And I made microwave popcorn, which we never have... I always make the airpop stuff that isn't as good the kids say. Aaand... we had soda! Which we never have! So the kids thought it was amazing and kept saying, "Wow mom, you didnt have to do all of  this. Wow mom, you're amazing!" I don't hear those words too often... so it made me happy. We watched some tv and played some games. The kids actually got along and had fun... but Ezra did destroy the games that we tried to play.. Sorry Sliders and Bingo. But all was well! Then we had rootbeer floats, which was a tradition in my family. The kids loved it and were so happy all evening. That made me happy! Then 10:45 pm came.... we usually celebrate New Years Chicago time.. so the kids can experience it and have fun and get to bed and be happy the next day. I decided to see if they can stay up til midnight and they were all talking smack how they can. 10:45pm... I turned on some dance music for us to all dance.. and that lasted a whole 3 mins. before the kids were crying or pouting about something, I was so mean and laughed at them for crying over nothing! As a parent, you have to laugh at stuff like that, so you;re not ticked off all the time! The crying and pouting continued, but I just ignored them. Where was Jason during all of this, in and out of napping. I kept the music on and encouraged the happy kids and we had fun... the happy ones that is. Finally, midnight was here and we watched the ball drop in NY and we all, but Isaiah, went outside and yelled and screamed and hollered and banged pots and pans together and had a blast! We were the only ones on our block though.  No one else was home. But there were a lot of big fireworks that were going off around the neighborhood and out by the river. It was a lot of fun at about 12:05am... I sent the kids to bed! They were tired! So that was our NYE 2012!
 

9:45pm.... attempting to play Sliders!

11pm.... people sleeping and done for the night!

11:30pm.... Some of us were still going strong and making some music of our own! 

New Year's Eve was fun.... I don't know if we'll stay up until midnight next year too, because they are all tired today since they got up at their normal 7am time this morning. I got up a couple times this morning and changed some diapers, but then i went back to bed and stayed in bed til 11:30am. It was soooo nice! Then I came down stairs, made lunch... leftover homemade pizza. And made the kids go outside to play. It was beautiful outside today! Like 60 degrees! So we all went out and spent most of the day there.

Uriah's first time outside for longer than 1 min. He didn't know what to think about the sun, but ended up loving sleeping in it!

Riding bikes

Maci's new bike she got from Santa

Sadee's new bike that used to be Maci's... I love hand me downs!

Elijah loves riding with the big kids!

Maci & Sadee walking with their friend Brianna... I love that they have neighbors they can play with!

Isaiah & Elijah practicing their outdoor skills... the bow was actually my brother's when he was little.

Isaiah teaching Elijah gun safety and helping him shoot the BB gun. 

It was a nice warm day! Happy New Year!! 2013 is gonna be an eventful year! Aaaand.... today is my brother Dustin' Birthday! Happy Birthday Dustin!!!