Happy New Year 2011

Wow. How does one month go by so fast? Isn't January supposed to be kind of a downer? I thought it was going to be, but it has turned out to be a FABULOUS month for the Monsen family...which in turn has gotten me behind on my blogging. This is it though. We are back in business and I am going to keep up like I was, because like is said, this is my scrapbook from here on out, so be prepared for lots of updates and EVEN MORE pictures! (There will be a few posts before the day is over)

2011 started out with a BANG! We celebrated the New Year with our good friends, the Francias, at their beautiful home here in Norwalk. They live right on the water and have a quaint east coast home that is perfect for hosting a party....

So PARTY we did!

We were in great company...People AND Food!

Thad was an angel as usual and just loved playing in the new, unfamiliar surroundings.

He also loved playing with the party favors...so we broke the rules and partied a little before midnight:)

Too bad this adorable kid couldn't make it to midnight! This would have been the perfect first thing to see in 2011 ;-)

So Thad got his early New Years kiss...

And the rest of the kids went to sleep too. (Isn't this picture to die for?!)

So the grown-ups got their groove on and produced some pretty great music with Rock Band. But honestly, Colleen is the best drummer ever! It is the hardest instrument and she killed it every time! She also knew the words to every song, so that made it much more entertaining :)

After rocking out we anxiously waited for the ball to drop and ring in the New Year...

Midnight Kiss...aaawww:)

We headed out to their awesome deck, right on the harbor, and made some crazy noise and watched a couple fireworks.

After all the fun we woke our little monster up and headed home. Thad was so sweet with Nicki when he woke up. Cuddly kids are the best!

Thanks for such a fun party Colleen and Josh, what a great way to begin 2011!

New Year's Day was spent lounging around and playing with the left-over snow from one of our crazy blizzards back here.

This consisted of:

Picking the snow up,

Adorably taking it to this spot,

And tossing it in the puddle.

At first, Dad was just a spectator...

But Thad insisted he get involved (it doesn't take too much to convince Brian to get involved...especially if Thad has a really cute smile on his face).

We did this for about an hour out in the 50 degree weather that we are missing terribly right now :(

What a fun day we had! There are no pics of me because I didn't even take the time to get ready. It was a LAZY day!