New Year's Party

This year the Petersen Christmas party was over New Years. That was basically because that's when we were coming up to visit. Brenda was in charge this year and she scheduled a big party- including a sleep-over at her house. (We actually slept at Karen's who lives down the street). It was a fun time to visit and let the cousins play together.

We had a nice dinner first - mashed potato bar (the mashed sweet-potato casserole was heavenly). Then we went on a scavenger hunt that took us all over the valley. We were split up into 4 teams. Our team went to Walmart, then McDonalds, then Bensen Marina, then to the statue of Big Blue on Campus. Chris and Tyler didn't do to well. Doug had to go back with Chris, and Tyler fell asleep in the car - but oh well, the other cousins had fun. Tyler was hysterical when we got back so Doug and I went to Karen's when we got back and put him and Chris to bed. Doug went back over the party and stayed with Damon and put a Lego set together and visited. I stayed at Karen's and played with my new phone and read the Hunger Games (a re-read for our book group).

In the morning we had a nice breakfast of waffles and eggs and bacon. Later I went shopping with the moms and got some sweaters. The kids played in the snow even though it was so cold. We had pizza for lunch then we headed back over to Grandma's in the afternoon. It was a fun time to visit with family.
We had a dance line going in the basement for awhile - fun to see people get their groove on.


Wesley is just a few months younger than Chris, they'll be good friends.