If it weren't for the kids ...

... I would have been in bed at about 8:30 p.m. on New Year's Eve.

But, they wanted to celebrate the ringing in of the new year. That's usually Rick's job, but he is on a trip to the Fiesta Bowl so I was left with the duty!

I went all out .... not!

I bought a couple of party hats and some blowers. We decided to ring in the new year with New York, but found that the ball drop wasn't showing LIVE! We would have had to wait until 11:30 p.m. to start watching Dick Clark's show. And since I didn't want to stay up that late, or even 11:00 p.m. for that matter, I tried to stream it in live, but wasn't successful.

So, we did the next best thing. We set the timer on the stove when there was 5 minutes left until 11:00 p.m. (midnight, New York time) so we would have an official countdown.

Daddy called to be on the phone with us at the new year. Of course, he was in San Diego (heading to Arizona in a couple of days for the game) so his new year wasn't for a couple of hours yet. Confusing, I know.

At 5 .... 4 .... 3 .... 2 ..... 1 ......... we screamed ..... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!  We blew our horns, took some pics, and then headed off to bed.

By the time I actually got Eli and Brynne settled down for the night, it was 11:45 p.m. OKLAHOMA time, not New York. I went to bed, but at 11:50 texted Dawson (who was upstairs, not in New York or San Diego) to have him come down to put some medicine on his sore thumb before he want to bed.

He came down and told me he was going to spend the next 9 minutes with me so we could ring in the Oklahoma new year together. At exactly midnight, OKLAHOMA time, I sent him, Rick and Kyndal a 'Happy New Year' text. Dawson said, "Did you seriously just send me a text when I am sitting right next to you?"

So, let's recap. We rang in 2012 with New York. My husband was in San Diego, two hours behind us and three hours behind New York. My daughter was in Florida, but on Oklahoma time. We were on Oklahoma time, but early, but then rang in the new year again at midnight Oklahoma time, which was 1 a.m. New York time and still not the new year San Diego time. When Rick got my text at midnight, Oklahoma time, he was asleep in San Diego and didn't ring in the new year there at all. Good thing he rang in the new year with us in Oklahoma but on New York time.

Hee .... hee ...

And I was in my pj's the WHOLE time.

The end .... to another year.