New Year's Eve Party! :)
We had a family friendly New Year's party this year and we had so much fun! We got an idea off of Pinterest and it was great! We started the party at 5pm and for each hour we had a helium balloon with a note inside that had an activity to do in it. I labled the balloons with the hours (5:00, 6:00, 7:00, etc.) I'm just sad b/c we didn't take any pics of the balloons altogether. Below are a few of the pics of the kids taking turns popping the balloons. Here are the different activities we did:
5pm: Bounce house time! (We own our own princess castle bounce house, but to make it more fun we filled it with balloons...the kids loved it)
6pm: We made bubble snakes :) It's something I found on Pinterest and the kids loved it! Very easy and a fun activity for them! :)
7pm: Movie & popcorn....we hooked up our older projector TV (52" I believe) on the deck in our backyard and the kids chose The Lorax to watch--they loved it!
8pm: Chocolate fountain time! (I got a small fountain for Christmas so we hooked it up and got all the stuff out to dip in the chocolate...it was delicious!)
9pm: We had to switch our 9 & 10 activities b/c we had so many small children and they were still up and running around at 9 so we decided to do the 10:00 activity, which was Wii tournaments on the deck (using the big TV already out there we played tennis, boxing, guitar hero, etc.)
10pm: Like I said above, we switched 9 & 10, but we didn't actually end up doing the 9:00 activity, but the plan was to do a charcoal & logs fire in the backyard and make s'mores. It wasn't very cold and at 10 we still had too many young ones running around so we just didn't end up doing this one.
11pm: Toast time! :)
12am: Happy New Year! Kisses for everyone! (Literally & I bought a giant bag of hershey kisses for everyone!)
Welcome sign at the door when our guests arrived!
New Year's Resolution board...I made it out of black foam board and I just hung 2 silver sharpies with ribbon from each side.
Up close of the board :)
Popping the 7pm balloon....movie & popcorn time! (Look at my face!)
Popping the 8pm balloon!
eeeeeeeek!
Ahhh! It popped!
Harvest water! It was delicious and refreshing...it's just water, ice, fresh strawberries, and lime---yum!
Resolution board again!
It started to get filled up, but most people didn't fill it out....I think next year I will require everyone to fill it out! I'm thinking I'll save this one and put it up next to a new blank one to remind everyone what their plans for 2013 were :)
Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
