New Years Eve 2008

For New Years this year we celebrated at the Bielenberg Sports Complex in Woodbury. The City Of Woodbury's Park and Rec Center throws a New Years Eve Celebration every year for the kids at the Sports Complex. We attended it last year and the boys had a lot of fun. Its nice for the kids because they get to run around in the dome or jump in/on the big jumpers. They also have mini golf, skating and Bingo. It starts at 6pm and goes until 9pm. They have a DJ that played music all night and does a countdown at 8:45pm. They also have door prizes and we actually won 2! A free kids meal to Champs and a free burger at American Burger! Both YUMMY places to eat! All the cousins were suppose to come with us this year, but Anthony ended up getting sick with a fever, diarrhea, and vomiting so the Cardenas ended up staying home. But the Ramos family and the Dehne family came with us. Daddy stayed home with Marisa and Lorenzo because Marisa was still not 100% so the Ramos' decided to leave Lorenzo too since Daddy was staying home. When we got there the kids all ran for the dome and played in there for a long time. Than they decided they wanted to ice skate. I rented the boys ice skates and thank goodness the guy said I didn't need skates because I knew I had to hold up Nicholas and if I was on skates we both would have been falling the whole time! We went around, well actually not even a full length of the skating rink and he was all done. He had fallen once and that was it! Poor kid! Jon did really good on his own. Both him and Nicholas want to take skating lessons. I will have to see how much it is and maybe we can sign them up. After they were done skating we went back into the dome to play some soccer (we learned last year that people brought their own footballs and soccer balls to play with). So this year I made sure I brought our own as well. Before the countdown, the DJ played the Cha Cha Shuffle (I think that is the name of the song) so Jon and I danced to it. Jon is such a good dancer but he wouldn't show you if you asked!

After all the fun we went back to our house for the actual countdown to New Years. Uncle Paul, Dad, Noah and Jon had a Nerf gun fight. That was probably the highlight of the night. They had so much fun shooting each other! Once the countdown was done, everyone packed up to go home and go to bed. Most of everyone made it til midnight except for Nicholas and of course the two babies. After Midnight Jon crashed but the two Ramos girls were wide eyed and bushy tailed! It was a fun night for all. Enjoy the pics!


Gen, Bella, Nick and Jon waiting in line to go on one of the jumpers.


Bella is such a cutie!


Gen and Maria hanging out.


The Caterpillar Jumper - One of the favorites!


Jon and Nick waiting in line.


Noah and Matt played a lot of catch with the football.


Jon on his own skating. He did SO good! I don't think he fell once!


Noah D skating around.


The fighting begins!


Noah on a mission to get Uncle Paul!


Jon trying to dodge one of the bullets!


Uncle Paul went the other way to get them by surprise!


The boys trying to hide!


Auntie Tesa hanging out on the couch watching the gun fight!