Belated New Years

This Year I was sick in bed for New Years so I knew I wanted to do something once I made it back to Rexburg as a back to school/new years celebration.  So I decided after the first week of school it would be wonderful to celebrate.  What I didn't realize was how much work it would be and also how much fun it would be.  I had a general idea of what I wanted to do but I didn't really have time to get anything done until Friday afternoon (day of the party).  

One problem is I don't have a car but I do have two perfectly good legs so I decided to use those to walk the two miles to Walmart.  Unfortunately my roommates did not like that so I might have told a small white lie or two and pretended that one who was at school was going to drive me and told another one someone else was driving me and I snuck out.  

The part I didn't realize was that some roommates might see each other and realize what I had done.  So I was gone for about ten minutes before they called me and said they were coming to get me.  They might have also tried to ground me.  I went and found the cutest cups at DI and picked up a bunch of decorations/ food.  Then I hurried home and with the help of my lovely roommates set things up.  

By the time we finished setting up and cooking the food it was 9:00, right when the party started.  I was so nervous that no one would show up but luckily our friends like us and they came!  We just mingled at first and had some delicious food, I ate my first tortilla chip in a year and it was pretty good.  Nothing spectacular but decent.  One delicious item on the menu was a cake full of coins wrapped in tinfoil and there was one loonie wrapped up and whoever won the loonie got a prize.  Unfortunately most americans don't know what a loonie looks like and so one of my dear friends thought she had it ut it was really just a Canadian dime.
  After about an hour though we decided to play a game which had some hilarious results and was much harder than I thought it would be but I think I got kind of good at it after I smacked a few people in the beginning.  

We had a resolution wall where people could redo their new years resolutions.  Some ended up being silly like meet peter pan, or discover buried treasure... twice. but others were more serious like, be more humble, read the scriptures everyday, and lose 50 pounds.

And... we had a photo booth!

Then at midnight we got a teensy bit cray cray.  We had some silly string and confetti poppers and it got quite messy

Thankfully boys stayed and helped us clean.  It got really bad after the cake was thrown, but it was thrown to save me after I was threatened with silly string.  

Overall I am going to say it was the best new years for me in quite a while and I think from now on I will be having a belated new years.  When most people are breaking their resolutions I will just be getting started on mine.

Happy New Years. Bring it on 2013.