New Years

Happy New Year!

We celebrated a New York New Year's with the boys and watched the ball drop at 9pm. It was hard trying to keep them awake but once they drank their sugar sparkling apple cider they were ready to stay up and celebrate a California New Years! We all laid down together and fell asleep. I think this is the first time in a long time that Sean and I didn't stay up until midnight (okay, maybe the first time Sean didn't wake me up at 11:59pm). We all slept through the new year. Faith stayed up...she was at a party with some cheer friends.

We brought in the new year as we always do, at the beach! We didn't actually bring it in that way, but we go to the beach every New Year's day. This time it was a bit different as there was a negative low tide (really really low), so we went to the tide pools. We saw all kinds of anemone, sea stars, and even an octopus! We couldn't keep Zach from stepping into the water between the rocks. He was determined to get wet and he succeeded!

Earlier in the day we took baby Ben on his first bike ride. He loved it! All the boys have loved riding on the back of our bikes. Josh is now old enough to keep up with us on his own bike.

We also enjoyed the sunshine and played in the backyard on the swing set. Playing in the backyard is rare for us as there are always so many kids out front that our kids want to play out front.

It was a great day to spend together as a family. I love bringing in the new year this way as it just seems to set the year off right!