The Scribner Family: Early New Year's Par-tay!

Our kids were super lucky and got to go to the Niebuhr grandparents for an early New Year's party! My dad planned out a bunch of things for the kids to do, along with decorations and my mom got some things for crafts and fun snacks. They had a fun filled day that was all about them. This of course included the triplets whom my kids adore. They started the day off by going sledding, then they came home rested a bit and then made some snowman snacks. My dad set up the basement with several obstacle courses and bought a ton of bouncy balls for the kids to race. He used hot wheel tracks, paper tubes, wood and lots of kitchen bowls and pans. The kids thought this was super cool. They made some monsters as crafts and also got to color and write on some place mats. Then they got in their jammies and rang in the new year kid style (with party horns and at 8:00pm) They ended the day with a sleepover in the living room telling ghost stories and when they woke up they got pancakes with smiley faces. Carter said he had one smiley face and one frowny face. Camden informed me that grandpa Dale filled his mouth with whipped cream straight from the can. This also meant that Chad and I, and Brian and Erin got a break away from the kids and we went up to Omaha to see Les Miserables and eat at Joe's Crab Shack. We topped that off with take home cheesecake from the Cheese Cake Factory. It was pretty great.

Camden racing down the hill

Callan enjoying his first time sledding

Carter perfecting the tummy sled

Grace and Callan going down together

Callan walked back up the hill several times so he could go again. He loved it!

taking a little rest before resuming the fun

showing off his banana snowman snack

showing my mom what they made

monster crafts

ball races (this picture does not do the course justice)

working on the place mats

Happy New Year Everyone!!

ready for the sleepover int he living room

If you thought the kids weren't already spoiled enough we picked them up this morning to head back up to Omaha to go to Defy Gravity (a trampoline park). This was part of their Christmas gift from Grandpa Dale and Grandma Ellen. My mom came along as well as the whole Niebuhr family. We jumped for an hour and it was pure bliss. I am not going to lie, this was for me, not for the kids. I love trampolines, and want Chad to build a spot where we can put on of these in our yard.

It is as amazing as it looks. Everyone had a great time and it was a great work out. I was a little worried about Callan but he did awesome and enjoyed his independence to just roam around and jump. I tried to take pictures but it was really hard for the camera to focus, but I caught a couple ok ones. I really wish they had one of these in Lincoln. Chad had a decent amount of spills attempting to jump off the walls and it was fun to watch. I think we both will need a hot/ice bath tonight and to rub each other down with aspercream. We then went out to lunch and everyone took a nice long nap. We are just hanging out at home taking it easy on this last night of 2012. We hope everyone has a fabulous last day of 2012 and a great start to 2013!