New Years & after-Christmas festivities

After spending Christmas with my family, and spending the day after Christmas home SICK doing nothing except lounging around in my PJ's ALL day (literally), sleeping, and watching TV...

we headed on up to good ol' northern Utah to spend some some with Josh's family.

We went to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert (so fun! see previous post), went shopping, to movies, relaxed, and hung out with family.

New Years Eve was spent at the Kastleman home with some Martinelli's, dessert, the live showing of the NY Time Square celebration, and watching the fireworks all around the town.  Josh's parents live on a hill with a beautiful view of the Timpanogas Temple and surrounding area so it was cool to see all the different fireworks that people were putting off.  

Funny lil' story- It was 10 seconds before midnight and we started counting down with time Times Square celebration.

5...4...3...

then all of a sudden the screen turns black with a blue little box saying 

"You are outside of your viewing hours "

.... what??  

Since we have DirectTV, we knew what it was, but 

Josh's parents have DirectTV and it lets you set your own viewing 

hours to when it automatically shuts off the program and you can unlock it with a code.

Apparently theirs was set to midnight... {or a few seconds before;)}

After a few seconds of shock and disappointment, I finally started counting down again from 3.  

Yeah...we were probably a little late from the "official time" but who cares, we still celebrated... 

and we got our New Years Kiss, that's all that matters ;) 

After the clock struck 12, a toast and a kiss, we started hearing the boom of fireworks so we went outside to watch.  The fireworks were cool and all, but I think the main attraction and amusement of the night was a so-called little blue "UFO" in the sky that was flying around everywhere that the boys were going crazy over and couldn't figure out what it was.  I figured it was one of those glider-airplane thingys, but little do I know.

I know, it looks like a planet in this picture. It was hard to capture on camera, but I guess I got a little speck of it.

We never did figure it out though.

{cue scary music} ;)

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We are so excited for this upcoming year, for all the new and exciting things that will happen, major changes, and for the addition

 to our lil' family that this summer will bring :) 

Happy 2012 to everyone! 
Hope it turns out to be a great one!