December 31

New Year's eve morning started off lazy for us  We had stayed up really late the night before, watching the movie Clue.  Both boys made themselves smoothies for lunch.  Jeremy had a little trouble with his:

 (apparently he was shaking it to get it out of the cup!!!)  We went to see The Hobbit, Desolation of Smaug right after this mess!  It was NOT my favorite movie.  I have never been to a movie where a theater full of people just groaned at the end.  When we got home, I got out everything for our big fondue night while Tim made a pumpkin pie (for tomorrow's dinner).  The kids had so much fun having fondue and really seemed to get into it, even singing when they lost things in the pot.

After we ate, the kids spent a long time playing minecraft together.  (Minecraft, Zelda Windwaker, Punch Out, and Super Mario U are the big games this break.)  Just a few minutes before midnight, Tim and I finally finished the REALLY hard puzzle Tim got from my mom.  We watched the last 5 minutes of the ball dropping in NYC.  The kids were wound up and loved the party poppers and blowers (though the dogs didn't).