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Table all set with snacks. We also had mashed potatoes and meatballs and gravy and lots of varieties of chips. We didn't go hungry that's for sure
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Hailey playing the snowman game
 | Vikki and her snowman
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| Isaac, Gayla, Joel, Jared, and Adam |
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| Joel playing Left, Right, Center |
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| Peyton and Hailey Left Right Left game |
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Playing Vikki's fun game, Right, Left Center. Vikki, Isaac, Gayla, Joel, Jared, Adam, Jacob, Kimmy, me, Peyton, and Hailey
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Isaac, Hailey, Peyton and Adam
 | Eli, Isaac, Hailey, Peyton, Adam and Jacob
 | Jared with the big saran wrap ball we played the unwrap game with. It was big and heavy and had lots of neat stuff in it. Vikki took these fun pictures!
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| Vikki, Adam, Hailey and Jacob |
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 | Jacob in front....Next row...Eli, Joel, Isaac, Peyton and Hailey
Next row...Jared, Kimmy, Wes, Gayla, Adam, me, Bill, Vikki and Rody |
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Peyton and Hailey
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| Gayla, Joel, Vikki in front, Wes and Bill in the back |
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| Joel, Eli and Vikki |
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| Gayla, Joel and Wes |
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| Kimmy, me, Peyton and Rody |
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| Jacob picking on his cousin Hailey |
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| Jacob, Peyton and Hailey |
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| Joel and Wes |
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| Isaac and Joel |
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| Bill, Joel and Wes |
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| Isaac, Eli, Adam, Hailey, Jacob and Peyton |
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| Adam and me |
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| Joel and Vikki |
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| Joel and me |
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Kimmy and Jared
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| Peyton called me when she got home and told me she lost her tooth. She showed me it was really wiggly when she was here. |
I got up early to do my morning reading before I got busy making food. I played some good worship music too, then made meatballs and gravy, chocolate covered strawberries, chocolate covered cashews, cut cheese up, cut veggies up and got things ready for the party. Vikki, Rody and the kids got here around 4. She made mashed potatoes, ham roll ups, 3 different kinds of bean dip, one with burger and cheese, one with ground turkey and cheese and one with no cheese (so even the fussy eaters had what they liked). She also made her yummy salsa. Rody made his delicious banana cream pudding dessert. She asked me to put the potatoes in the oven to keep warm. I asked her why the pan was cold and she said the potatoes were hot because she just made them. I stuck them in the oven at 400 degrees for 3 minutes until the pizza bread I was making was done, then Rody brought in the real potatoes that were hot. The thing I stuck in the oven was Rody's Banana pudding cake. We were afraid to look inside to check on the pudding cake, so we waited until it was dessert time. They stayed out in the cold garage until then. Kimmy and Jared got here right after this event happened. She helped us set everything out. We all ate and were stuffed. We waited for a while for the banana dessert and were pleasantly surprised when it was perfectly ok. Wes, Gayla and Joel came and we played games and did lots of snacking. We played a snowman game that Gayla brought. I drew arms on Kimmy's when I threw a dice that said draw something on your neighbors picture. I drew big arms instead of stick arms and she got a good laugh. I was under pressure because you had to keep rolling until you got all the combinations of two dice to draw each part. Yikes. We played the penny game Left, Right, Center next. It took a long time but was so much fun and it was nice because Joel could play too. We had lots of laughs. Jared was the first to lose and Joel made the loser sign with his hand. Peyton won....I was runner up. We played a game of 3-13 and Gayla was the winner. Then we all went in the family room and played Vikki's game. She and Rody had wrapped lots of cool things in saran wrap. They used 7 rolls of saran wrap. It was a huge ball as you can see from the picture. We all drew numbers and that's the order we went in to roll the dice and then take our turn unwrapping until the person throwing the dice rolled doubles. We laughed so much and everybody had so much fun! Thanks Vikki and Rody. Jared was a huge blessing helping Joel unwrap the saran wrap ball. Vikki posted a cute video on her facebook page of everyone playing this game. We waited until ten minutes before the ball dropped to turn the TV on. Vikki passed out Happy New Year head bands Vikki brought and blow noise makers, and we poured sparkling grape juice that Vikki brought and gave each person the flavor they wanted. Then we watched TV and counted down till the ball dropped. We blew on our noise makers, the toasted and wished everyone Happy New Year. Wes, Gayla and Joel left, then everyone helped pick up and left the house all cleaned up. Our family is such a blessing. They all let me know when they were home safely. Peyton called me and told me her tooth came out.
