As most of you may know by now, 2008 is upon us. If you do not know that by now, then you seriously need to think about going on a shopping spree, and buying a current calendar. Just a thought. Yes, the New Year is here, which in turn means a new blog post on the famed “New Year’s Party” at the S’s!!

It is always great fun to have a party at our friends house, but when it’s a New Year’s party minus a rousing game of “Animal”… now that has the makings of a splendiferous night! The buzz going through the church for the past couple of months has been “English Country Dancing” a.k.a. “Pride and Prejudice Dancing”. I never much cared for the movie, and I didn’t think I would care for the dancing, but everyone proved me wrong on the 31^st. The S’s pulled both cars out of their garage, and we used the parking facility as a dance floor. It took awhile for everyone to learn the four dances that were picked for the night, but once we did… there was no stopping us. We had a blast…

No… this was not part of one of the “proper” dances, but this is a representation of how the whole evening was. Crazy…

Yet another crazy shot. I would like to think that Nic was trying to whisper something in Nathan’s ear, but I am afraid that is not so. The night was a cheery and happy one! I am pretty sure that is about as far as Nic got though, before Nathan slapped him upside the head…

What’s with all the crazy shots? Most of the dancers posed in front of the door for one of those so called “group shots”…

Finally, some calm and proper ladies…

Everybody celebrates the New Year in different ways. Others, such as our pastor, like to read oversized genealogy books…

And what’s a New Year’s party without a toast with some Martinelli’s Sparkling Apple Cider?...

Well, you can go a little overboard. Waste not, want not… Right?...

And when the New Year came, there was celebrating in the streets… or entryway…

To end the evening, or start the morning, whichever you prefer, we all sat around and shot rubber-bands at the ceiling hoping to ricochet it into another person’s lap. After awhile, the ceiling part was dropped…

If you’ll remember from my New Year’s post of last year (2007), I put a picture up of a certain little boy named Thomas, that looked like he was sucking his thumb while sleeping. I actually wasn’t sucking my thumb, I never have in fact, my hand was just in a way that LOOKED like I was sucking my thumb. It has now become tradition that we get a picture of that certain little boy “sucking” his thumb while sleeping. I wasn’t really asleep. It was just a reenactment…

Rachel thought it looked like fun, so she "sucked" her thumb as well…

Matthew is not one to be left out…

Nic decided to join us, but he missed the memo about pretending to suck his thumb…

Now didn’t that look like a great way to spend the holiday?