A New Year with Friends

We celebrated New Year's Eve by having our friends from our little dinner group over to our house. We use to get together every couple of months for dinner by rotating houses before Brooke and Jeremy moved to Charlotte. The three of us couples that remain in the Raleigh area still try and get together every now and then, but we really don't do a very good job of it. We were so excited that Brooke and Jeremy were going to be in town for New Year's. It was really nice to have all four couples back together again! Since the last time we have all been together our group size has grown by quite a few.....by three children to be exact! We celebrated by not having dinner....ha.....so much for it being a dinner group! We decided to make it a little easier on ourselves and to meet up after dinner and just do appetizer type foods. We had some yummy food, and no one had to do a lot of work for it!! I think Joshua enjoyed having so many kids over to play with. He was pretty sad when we made him go to bed at 9:00. It was a great night and a great way to ring in the new year! Brooke and Jeremy spent the night, so we were able to spend a little extra time with them the next morning before they left. It was nice to be able to catch up with them.

Joshua enjoyed meeting Emerson

He also gave everyone goodnight hugs before he realized we were actually making him go to bed.

The girls and kiddos (minus Joshua who was already in bed b/c we forgot to take pictures of all of us beforehand)

The whole group with Joshua ;) added in

We are looking forward to this weekend when we will be heading to the mountains with Brooke & Jeremy and Kara, Christopher & baby Caleb! We can't wait for some time to get away and relax with some great friends! (We wish Alisa, Jason, Evan and Emerson could join us, though. We'll definitely try to do this again guys!) Hopefully the weather won't be too bad since they are calling for snow. We would LOVE to see some pretty white snow in the mountains, but we would not love to see bad driving conditions ;).