Happy New Year!

Well – it happened. 2010 crept away and 2011 arrived. Matt and I were happy to be able to celebrate the changing of the years with his aunt Amy’s family.

We met them after work at the Greenery at the mouth of Ogden Canyon. We both had gift cards that expired on 12/31/2010, so it was a great day to use them! The other Clarks had spent the day skiing, so they were ready for some food. I had to work on New Year’s Eve, and Matt was still sick with his cold, so I am sure we were not too exciting of a group at dinner. But the food was good. We had some yummy Mormon Muffins and I had a huge baked potato. Yummy!

After dinner we went to Amy and Greg’s house and played some games. First we played with their new Christmas toy – an arcade style basketball game. I hate to admit that Matt beat me a couple times before I got the hang of the game and beat him.

We watched the ball drop on the internet at 10:00 with their boys and celebrated the New Year EST with them before they went to bed. Then we decided to play some more games and stay up until the real midnight.

I have a bunch of games at my house and we never play them, because most of them need more than 2 players so we were happy to be able to play with them. The first game we played was Curses. I had never played it before, but I have heard it was fun. I was excited when my Grandma gave it to me for Christmas, and happy to have a chance to play it. It is a crazy game – and would probably be even more fun with more people. As it was, Matt was a rhyming drill sergeant, Amy had to speak like a trucker and a witch, Greg had to bow every time someone clapped, and I had to clap whenever anyone mentioned food. It was fun. When that game ended we moved on to other games.

Then – before we knew it – it was New Years and we had a toast to 2011.

Here is hoping that the year is a great one!