Mel, Cam, Miles and J: Monday December 31st, 2012

This New Years Eve, J and I looked up online some things to celebrate New Years as a family and picked a few things to do that we thought would be fun for us to do together this year. It made for an amazing day..
Got the kids dressed and wanted them to wear their new shirts that we had made for them for Christmas with their names on the back but they were a bit too big.. But did get a picture of them with them on. They are just too cute, don't you think. :)

So we made a cake for us to have later as dessert and while it was cooling we painted a Happy New Year sign. The kids and J did a GREAT job.

Then we made our own shakers for when we count down to the New Year. Here's Miles filling his egg shaker with peas. He had a great time doing that.. I think he was sad when it was full. :)

Everyone filling their egg shakers with peas. :)

After lunch and nap (for Miles) we got dressed up and made our way outside for a bom fire..

Here is Campbell, Miles and J hanging out by the fire..

Campbell, Miles and I at the fire roasting octopus hot dogs.. Campbell's choice and he really enjoyed them.. We also of course roasted marshmallows and Campbell did go for a ski around the backyard and we played outside of course too.

Here is Miles with a marshmallow.. Doesn't he look like he is having fun.. Love this smile.

Here is the cake that we made.. I iced it and made the pizza dough during nap and quiet time. Our hotdogs and marshmallows were our afternoon snack. So for supper we had individual make your own pizzas (which Campbell always loves) and then cake.. We all enjoyed our supper..

Here is our sign put up in the loft, where we planned to have our countdown. We looked it up and with the time difference we could countdown to midnight with England and it would be 7:00pm our time. This way we could all countdown together and the kids (or us) wouldn't have to stay up too late and we celebrate New Years together as a family..