Lanie Weekly: New Years Noon

We love the Dierlam's and we always have so much fun when we all get together. Which is quite often because we have kids around the same age so they understand the struggles of finding a babysitter, the misery of taking a toddler to a restaurant, and watching hours and hours of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Mallory and I meet in middle school and have been two peas in a pod since then. We cheered together all through high school and we are pregnant again together, if you have ever been pregnant it just makes it more fun to go through it with your buddy! This will be Mark and I's second and Mallory and Jeff's third, more kiddos equals more fun right!Mark and Jeff meet when I started dating Mark, but I am pretty sure it was love at first sight for these two. Seriously we were at a wedding and it was the first big event Mark and I went to together and a little intoxicated Jeff learned over to Mallory and commented about Mark, " I think we are going to be best friends!"
We have a tradition on New Years Eve with the Dierlams, this year made it 4 years and we plan to continue it until well who knows. I am sure it doesn't sounds exciting to most people, but we enjoy it and I really do look forward to it. Our big plans for NYE are simply to hang out with our families, I know crazy!!! The first two years we went to Turonis gobbled down yummy pizza and then always ventured back to Mal and Jeff's for dominoes after laying Will down for the night. Then we quickly added Lanie and Norah to our party and decided it might be more enjoyable to order in and let the kids just run crazy and we didn't have to worry about the battle that happens every time we take small children out to eat, I will tell you about the Los Bravos melt down sometime. So even though we change things up here and there the basic plan is to always go to Mal and Jeffs with jammies packed and fun to be had.
This year we added the fun of going to CMOE our children museum. They have a lot of activities plus some special things for what they call New Years Noon since most kiddos are asleep on the actual Happy New Year moment. We had such a good time playing in the magic tree house exhibit and the magic show was the best part. Lanie enjoyed the rabbit and got upset when she couldn't touch it, but Will (Mal and Jeff's oldest) was in love with the magic show and sweet Norah was just happy to run around with her shoes off!
After some much needed naps we started our party at home and after we got all the kiddos to bed we played some game, enjoyed our sweat pants, and watched some Rocking New Years Eve with Ryan Seacrest. So even though our day/night was not full of fancy dresses, champagne (well the boys had some the two preggos did not partake), and wild moments, I spent my NYE exactly how I wanted to surrounded by my family and plan to keep it that way for quite awhile :)