Happy New Year’s Eve

New Year's Eve started out as a day to relax and an evening of celebration, but oh how quickly that changed.
  The day was fun, everyone was hung out at the house, we had fun together.

Mom and her girls:  Jessica and Marissa - She's playing the ukulele

Grandma and Grandpa with Cayson - what a great year!!!

Mom and Dad (Jessica and Tate) with their cutie - Cayson

We had Devon organize with Norman to meet us for dinner at Red Robbin.  For some reason, Red Robbin has become the restaurant we go to on New Year's Eve.  I think it started three or four years ago, when the boys loved hamburgers and enjoyed their bottomless fries.  Norman and his girlfriend, Shelby met us there.  We had Devon and Sierra, Mark and Betsy, Jessica and Tate, Marissa and Norman and Shelby.  Jessica and Tate arrived after later so they could feed Cayson.  We ordered appetizers and drinks while we waited for them to arrive.  IT was wonderful to catch up with Norman and it was even nicer to meet Shelby.  They are such a cute couple.  I love seeing Devon and Norman together.  They are the best of friends!!!!  Once Jessica and Tate arrived we ordered dinner and enjoyed a two hour dinner there.




At the end of dinner, Devon and Sierra, Norman and Shelby went downtown Louisville to celebrate New Years.  The rest of us went back to the house.  We thought it would be a good idea to light lanterns and set them off in the dark night sky.  Before setting them off, we each wrote one of two things:  1) write the things you want to get rid of in 2019, or 2) write resolutions for 2019.

We loaded everyone into the RAV4 and drove to the Moser Farm Park.  The wind had picked up again - we wondered if we should try it again.  We got the first lantern off - YEAH!!!  Then the second - YAY!!!  The third lantern did not cooperate as nice as the first two.  Betsy and Tate got it lit - they set it loose, but then it came back towards earth, but just as they were going to rescue it, the wind picked it up and blew it into the top of a tree!  YIKES!

Tate and Betsy chased it - Betsy watched it from afar, but Tate climbed the tree going at least 1/2 way up.  He was there just in case he needed to go further up and put out a fire.  Luckily, the flames went out on their own - YAY!!!  Everything is okay ... until ... Tate fell from a branch as he was coming down.  He fell a fast 10 feet to the ground hitting the bridge of his nose on a branch.  He didn't think it was serious, that is until Betsy saw all the blood.  He was very calm, but everyone else knew something more serious happened.

We loaded up the car and headed back to the house.  Luckily Tate's brother in law is a doctor so we called him - via Facetime so he could see the extend of the injury.  Tate and Jessica applied super glue to Tate's nose.  Betsy got him ice packs to help with the swelling.  Oh my gosh.  What a dramatic ending to a special day.