Ringing it in!

The girls went to Jeanine's parents'

on New Year's Eve afternoon,

stayed overnight (with their cousin),

and then all went to church together.

The rest of us went to Sheldon's parents'.

We ate, watched a movie, played games,

had fun, and left by 10:15 pm, since

Sheldon had early morning meetings, and

the rest of us had to be in Primary by 9:00 am.

 Here's Aaron with Annaliese's hamster (aka: party animal)!

Seriously, Flynn parties all night long anyway,

so we let him roll around for a while in his ball, =)

Nathan, Sheldon, Evan, Aaron

while we toasted with sparkling cider,

before some went to bed.

And then some of us, including family at my parents',

watched NBC King 5 New Year's at the [Seattle Space] Needle!

It is one of the world's largest structure-launched fireworks displays,

presented for the 18th consecutive year!

Although they forgot to do the actual countdown, =(

and we knew it was midnight only when the fireworks started,

it was a great eight-minute show this year!

Happy New Year 2012!