On New Years Even, we decided to let the boys have a little fun and make smoke rings out of smoke bombs from the fire works stand. They had a ball with the girls next door! We took a trash can, cut a hole in the bottom, stretched a shower curtain over the top of the can with a bungy cord, lit a smoke bomb, put the trash can on top of it so it filled up with smoke and then let the kids beat on the "drum" to make smoke rings come out the bottom. You can see the smoke ring starting to come out of the bottom of the can here:
Here's a faint ring...
Here's a good one!
And a more defined, yet faint, ring...
And a better shot...
While all that was going on, Grandma came over to spend the night! Grandpa went to Amarillo for a few days to help Chuck repair his fence, so we got to have Grandma over for a sleep over. We had sub sandwiches for dinner and fruit fondue for dessert. Then we put the kids to bed (after playing a LONG round of Trouble...thanks, Grandma!) and watched Julie and Julia (not my favorite...not sure it was worth a Red Box even). We toasted in the new year with Martinelli's (ching ching!) and went to bed. Then the next morning, the boys broke out the DDR for Grandma to have a go...luckily I had the camera out, too!
The boys sat in the windows when it was time for Grandma to go...I think they would have kept her longer!
Thanks for humoring us, Mom! We had so much fun!
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