New Year's Eve "Party"

Our plans for New Year's Eve were to just hang out with each other, the 5 of us.  Somehow, though, our plans to lay low turned into a party at the last minute.  Our friends that weren't available suddenly became available for various reasons (yay!) so a party was planned in less than 24 hours.

If you know me, then you know I love to plan parties, so I was up to the challenge of getting together something quick.  My girlfriends and I put our heads together and got a menu and activities planned.

Food: It was 2013 inspired.  For the savory dishes we had an assortment of Paleo foods.  (Paleo was the most googled diet of 2013)

We did chicken and veggie kabobs, stuffed bell peppers, meatballs, and a veggie tray.  Jess took it a step farther and named the meatballs "wrecking balls" after Miley Cyrus' song.  She also brought "Twerk"y Jerky.

"Ombre" Veggie Tray

Wrecking Balls, Twerky Jerky, and Say Cheese for your selfie!

Our desserts were NOT Paleo.  We had a countdown-to-midnight-clock of cupcakes, and a Candy Crush Bar.  It was fun to find all of the candies that are used in the game: yellow lemon drops, orange butterscotch, pink suckers, blue blow pops with out the stick, red jelly beans, chocolates, green Jolly Ranchers, and Swedish Fish.  For the large rainbow balls found in Candy Crush I covered Whoppers in Sprinkles (good thinking on that one, Brian.)  We even had some wrapped candies.  If you don't play the game then it just looks like a bunch of candy on the table.  It you play then you understand.

To make the party festive I used Hawaiian Decorations (hey, I said it was festive, not theme appropriate.  It's what I had on hand for this last minute party.  Thanks Christy!)  We had a box of leis, glow sticks, silly string, and whistle blowers for the kids to play with.  I also changed the lights in the Green Room (that's what we call the other living room, because it's green , duh.) to black lights.  The black lights didn't really do much, oh well.  

I printed out some pictures of events and memes of 2013

and personalized the cups with Roman numerals

The word "selfie" is a 2013 word, so we all took selfies.  With duck faces of course!

Our selfies!

Sarah supplied us with the traditional New Year's Drink, martinis!  We had a martini bar.  Brian was the bartender and the drink of choice for the night was the chocolate martini.  They were delicious.  Just ask Crystal and Jessica!

Sarah with champagne glasses (haha, get it?)

 The adults had a good time playing a fun new game and the kids ran around wild.  It was a laid back party.  And then there was dancing.  Line dancing, to be exact.  Except someone should know the line dance before you attempt to lead it, which no one did.  Which made it extra fun.

We are doing the wobble here.  Yes, we are suppose to be all facing the same direction.

I've known Jess for 5 years and have never seen her dance.  until now.  hahaha!

we're in sync now.

    I'm laughing as I'm loading these pics remembering the fun we had.

And of course we had a countdown to midnight.  The kids had sparklers and the adults had a champagne toast.  Brian tried to light all the sparklers at once.  Which he successfully did.  Which also led him to burning his fingertips off. ouch!

Good times!  Happy New Year!