New Year's Eve

Connor, Elise, and Evan contributed to our holiday decorations with these projects they made at school.  These hung on the sliding glass door for a couple of months, actually.
  

Evan's Hands-and-Feet Reindeer

Connor's Nativity

 

Elise's Nativity

 

  
We stayed close to home the last week of 2013.  Evan had his last days of nursery at church.  During one of those Sundays he made this block tower which he named "downtown."  The nursery leaders were impressed enough to take a picture.
  

  
On the 31st, we got together with our friends for an early New Year's party (it was on New York time, roughly, so we rang in the new year around 9pm.  Evan discovered the drum set in the playroom upstairs, so he stayed out of trouble for at least 45 minutes!
  

Happy 2014!

  
After the party, our family headed to Pasadena to look at the staged Rose Parade floats.  Before we got to the staging area, however, we drove the parade route, and got pelted with shaving cream tortillas, marshmallows, and silly string by everyone camping out overnight.  The kids could have driven like that for hours, but we eventually made them come see the floats with us.
  

Notice Corinne's floppy head.

Silly string doesn't wash off easily.

  
And these were just two pictures I liked:
  

Evan, Sleeping with his Eyes Open

 

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