Happy New Year

For New Year's Eve, we had a nice Mexican dinner with Dave and Holly's family.  It was like what you get a Cafe Rio but homemade.  I have to admit, I've gotten quite good at making Mexican dishes!  This one we had tonight is one of my favorites.  Anyway,  we had dinner and then the kids disappeared for about an hour or more. They were just playing with each other so well, we just let them go.  It had been a while since it was just our 2 families getting together.  The adults visited while the kids played.  Then it was time to do the festivities.
The kids mostly blew up the balloons and got them ready.  We got the pinata ready.  We played a few games and then it was time to pop the balloons.  They had a great time doing it.  They race to pop them and then they race to clean it all up too.  After balloons, we went outside and did poppers, the kind the where you through them on the ground and they pop.  Then it was pinata time.  All the kids got turns and then the dove on the candy.  All the kids were in the middle trying to get it all while Lili was filling her bag just by staying on the outside of the crowd and getting all the candy.  She had one of the fullest bags.  It was so funny to watch her figure that out.
Shortly after that, we cleaned up and came home.  We all went straight to bed.  Oh yeah, we do it according to the eastern time zone.  So it was really 10pm when we started.  We got home just after 11pm.  So happy new year!