WW: Happy New Year {Linky}

After Christmas it was a rush to get down that holidays things to make room for our New Years Eve Dance Party! 

I had Travis and Mica blow the dust off the tree piece by piece:

We made too much food! One thing is for sure, one can never have too many lights. 

We had 15 kids show up and 11 adults.

Happy New Year!

I said, "Ok now all the boys have to kiss the girls." I heard loud, high pitch screams, "No!" Ha!

I let the boys have two kids spend the night - 1 for each kid. We know their parent's well. This was their first overnight with kids other than their cousins.

One of the little guys wasn't on his pillow, the other little guy was hanging off the mattress.

These boys could have stayed up all night.

Don't let that older one fool you this was him on New Years Day:

Like Father, Like Son. Here's Dad:

Let's Dance

This is what Mica does with his friends when they have spent plenty of time playing already. He dances. Isaak complains that he is hot and tired for dancing.

I Love Kids That Rock Out With Their Parents!

I've seen this team before. They've been on YouTube. They became a hit and are now on a car commercial. This is by far the best song I've seen them do.

Do you rock out with your kids/Grandkids? We do. Both of our boys like They Might Be Giants and the Beatles.

Here are a few of my fondest memories:

I only wish I would have shot this with better lighting and higher resolution!

Trip to KC

We had a long weekend, meaning a lot to do packed in a few days. This will repeat in a few weeks when we go back to KC for another wedding.

This time my cousin Brent got married. They looked great and happy! They've been together for awhile.

Congrats to them!

Some of her family had trouble traveling because of hurricane Irene. :( We got there, but had trouble because the interstate is closed down with all the flooding. :(. It took 4 hours to get there when it would have taken us 3 hours.

It still was a very nice wedding! :) Everyone looked great! I loved watching my cousin's (groom's brother) kids walking down the aisle!

Those kids (Colton and Kensley) are so cute and know it! ;)

The reception was fun. Our kids were a little stir crazy at first. *Remember they were in the car for four hours. Mica totally looks like he's ready to hit Daddy or Grandma in the face. He really was a spazz at the beginning of the reception! Then calmed down once we had dinner.

Isaak loved giving my cousin Stacy's baby Alex attention! He's really cute! I held him for a bit to!

Great Grandpa Kent was a amused with three things: Baby Alex, playing with glow sticks and watching Daddy and I lip sink back and forth. We pretended the glow sticks were microphones. ;)

Grandma and Grandpa Spiehs (mom and dad) dancing. Not such a great photo. It was dark in there! Not bad on the dancing part for my mom having a fused ankle!

We tried to dance, but got interrupted each time with kiddo's. Oh well!

On our way home we saw:

Flooding!

It will be a long time before the interstate is up and running again! BOO! We have friends in KC and Daddy's family lives in Moberly, MO. The trip to MO is way longer now! Moberly is further yet. That should be an interesting trip with two young kids. Daddy can't stand their sound effects in the car as it is. I also usually go with my students in the spring to KC for a field trip. They say it will be a long time before the interstate is repaired!

Amazing windmills!

I will show more photo's of these later. I have better ones to show for later.

Dark clouds!

It rained a bit closer to home. Mica said the clouds looked like bacon. Maybe he was hungry. I didn't think they looked like bacon; they most certainly looked crazy odd.

Playing the Music!

When we play music our kids and we {parents} get into it! LOL

Here's Mica dancing and later in the short flick is Isaak drumming. Mica's dance style changes with the kind of music playing. Here he looks, well funny!

Mica really getting into playing his guitar.

Oh, we make fools of ourselves too! I'm behind the camera, but I was playing Mica's guitar, throwing the boys up in the air and flying a blanket around the room. Here's Daddy playing a mop like a guitar and wearing an empty Kleenex box for a hat, which he does often. Unfortunately this one was captured compact, so in other words low resolution. That gets me most every time with one video! Isaak's playing the drums on the love seat with foam bowling pins.