HAPPY 2014!

Happy New Year from the Lathams!

We rang in the new year with friends we invited for a sleepover.

It was loads of fun!

The Okimotos!

I set the table with as much glittered glitz and glam as I could drum up around the house.

For place cards I printed out clock templates and wrote each person's name at a different hour. 

Since there were (almost) 12 of us, after dinner we sang the 12 Days of Christmas, and each person was responsible to sing the day that coordinated with the hour on their place card. 

And we did it as fast as we could.

And we laughed a lot.

 I served an Italian inspired meal, as Rome was welcoming the New Year right as we sat down to eat. 

(Well, they would have been... except that I was running late... oh well!)

 We played games, munched on snacks, prepped the (AMAZING) Okimoto's Traditional New Year's Danishes that Megan provided for our breakfast the next morning, visited, laughed some more, and then counted down the seconds until the year 2014 arrived.

After a quick champagne toast and some cheering, we escorted the Okimoto kids (who were allowed to stay up, and did a very good job of it!) outside to bang on pots and pans, hooting and hollering into the cold wintery air.

Talk about bringing back childhood memories!

And then we all collapsed. 

*yawn*

It was an awesome visit, and we were so glad they could party with us!

What a fun way to kick off a new year!

Happy 2014!!