Fourteen's Company

Usually New Year's Eve is kind of slow. We don't really do anything, or I end up at the house of someone I don't know, bored there instead of at home.

But this year was quite different. Since moving into our new house, John and I have had guests, but this weekend, we had LOTS of guests - 7 couples (including us) and 2 babies. We attended the wedding of some friends of John's from college, then the rest of the friends descended on our house. Since I had mentally prepared in advance for the onslaught of unavoidable messiness and travel clutter, I enjoyed myself and had a great time.

After everyone left on New Year's Day, John and I took a bunch of snacks upstairs and watched Superman Returns (which, if you haven't seen it, is a great movie). The next day, John didn't have to work, so we stayed in our pajamas all day and watched Season 2 of House, which was one of our Christmas presents. Very relaxing, and it also served as time to work on getting over the cold I caught over the weekend.

Even though the weather was very cold and overcast with a drizzling rain on the day of the wedding, I managed to take this Totally Awesome Picture with a slow digital camera:


And here's a picture of John with one of the babies, Ella Ruth. He kept huffing her head and saying, "Babies' heads smell so good." Hm. Might be a potential parenting hazard we'll have to solve (in the FUTURE, not now - this is not an announcement!).