Ringing in 2010... Johnson Style

We got to spend New Year's Eve with the Johnson family this year. Kevin's mom had to work late, but we still took the opportunity to spend time in Peoria with some of our favorite people. There was plenty of food to snack on (pizza, nachos and yummy meatballs) and games to play. Not to mention GOOD company.
I realized Thursday night that I did not have a picture of Koltyn with his newest cousin, Spencer. They are 5 months apart, but still, Koltyn looks really big sitting next to him. It is fun that each of our kids has a cousin their same age on the Johnson side of our family.

We had the little ones celebrate early (we counted down to 10 o'clock). Keith, Kevin's brother, took charge and helped the kids set off their poppers. After hooting and hollering outside for a few minutes the kids had a parade around the house. They loved the horns Grandma had left for them.





We figured all the kids would be asleep at midnight, but we were 100% wrong! They all wanted to stay awake, just waiting for Grandma to get home from work. So we all celebrated again once midnight arrived. They didn't even want to go to bed and we finally had to make them lay down at 1am. Once the lights were off and the room was quiet they zonked right out. Friday morning proved to be a lazy one. Just hanging out, watching the parade and Food Network while Kevin and 3 of his brothers went to see Avatar. One way to know we had too much fun... the car ride home was VERY quiet. We are all pretty much exhausted (or just "austed" as Kimble loves to say)!
Happy New Year to everyone! We hope that 2010 will bring much happiness and good health to all our family and friends (we wouldn't mind some of that either).