A Quiet Welcome

It's been awhile only because it's been very quiet here. We've had cold and some more snow which had me bundling up and staying inside often. Christmas is still up, despite Dan's not-so-subtle hints for me to take it down, but I think I'll be doing the tear down this weekend but we'll see.

Our New Year's Eve was enjoyable. We had a couple come over for games. We played Yahtzee, Phase 10, and Uno with all the scores being kept together. Then 1 die was rolled to determine who won. A 3 moved all the scores to the right. A 1 moved them to the left. The 2 swapped the highest with the lowest, etc. The 6 said 1 more roll of the die to determine the winner. Odd it was the highest score, even the lowest. Leave it to Dan to not just play a game the way the instructions say.

Since Dan had worked a full day on New Year's Eve and Tim (the hubby who came to over) had to work at 5:00 am on New Year's Day Tim and Elayna headed home around 10. We crawled into bed shortly after and Dan fell right to sleep. I was reading and at midnight leaned over and kissed Dan for the New Year then turned out the light. Unfortunately the neighbors didn't realize we were wanting to sleep. Some were outside yelling and using noisemakers others were shooting off fireworks. Luckily it didn't last very late and I was soon able to fall asleep.

Around 2:45 am we were startled by a text message on Dan's phone. It was Amanda letting us know about the New Year's celebrations going on in Hawaii. She'd left earlier that day for Hawaii to present at a conference there. Tough work trip, I'd say. Being the smart woman she is she left the weekend before the conference and came home the weekend after it ended. Since she was only presenting, she was able to play most of the time she was there. What a rough life she leads. ;)

So a quiet New Year's for us but we welcome 2011 just the same.