Happy New Years!

I knew New Years would be a downer for me if we didn't do anything with anyone.  I'm a party kinda girl.  We invited a few families from the ward over to our house.  I did bad though cuz I didn't realize everyone would come and probably shouldn't have had so many people....oops.  It turned out fine though and was so much fun. I went to the Dollar Store (one of my fav stores) and got decorations and silly glasses to wear. I made fruit dip & fruit  and also bean dip & chips.  Everyone else brought snacks & things to munch on.  We played games & talked all the way to midnight.  All the kids had fun and turned out to be a fun tradition for next year.  We even got an AWESOME firework show again.  Battle Ground is awesome!  I was a little bummed when 12:30 came and everyone started leaving.  I was ready to still party.  It was good though to clean up a bit and relax. 

Tried to get everyone to look and not one person did!

 Party!

The next day Craig was off so we had to take advantage.  We had a relaxing morning and then decided to check out the Lloyd Center.  It's a huge mall in Portland that has 3 levels & ice skating rink.  Crazy right?!  It was fun to walk through, talk and browse.  It was just a perfect holiday with my family and loved every minute.  Also with the New Year weekend we felt kinda weird that it was January and there was no snow and pretty much felt like spring so we decided to take a drive to MT Hood.  It was GORGEOUS!  We got up pretty far until we didn't feel comfortable to go further with the weather in the car.  It's crazy how our house is maybe 400 ft and we drove there to reaching over 4,000.  It was nice to feel like it really was winter and to see snow.  We stopped for the puppy potty break and Jaycee even got out to make a snow angel.  How funny! 

At the mall watching the Zamboni guy.  Suprisingly it wasn't cold either.  Jaycee got that hat from Hadi for Christmas.

 Awe how cute

 Gotta stretch those legs out and play on the escalators

 The drive was breath-taking!  From millions & millions of trees coated with snow to the trees on the side.  There was a point that I looked out my window and it looked fake.  If you are ever in the area, you must take the drive in the winter.

Hadi didn't quite know what to think

 My girls :)  I'm a proud mama

 Saying Hi-Hadley style

 Tried a silly pic.  Wasn't quite working haha

 Love them