New Year's Eve Poker Party

We had a few couples over for a poker party on New Year's Eve.

Hallie was babysitting and Nadya stayed the night at Misty's, 

so the boys had a movie night downstairs.  

Poker was fun!  

(Blurry IPhone Picture)

Serina and Sam were out first, but in their defense they had to leave early.

Their oldest was sick.  No fun!

Stephanie and Vinnie and Heather were out after that and it was down to Me, Doug and Matt.

We paused to ring in the New Year.

Our neighbors let off fireworks and candle lanterns.

 We had a New Year's Eve toast and the boys rocked the new year in!

(Warning- This video is loud. Alex's new guitar had not been tuned and Carter had no clue what he was doing as he had just got his drums.  But, the boys had a blast and that is all that matters!)

After we paused to ring in the New Year, we got back to our game.

Eventually Doug was out and it went back and forth between Matt and I.

At that point Carter joined us at the table and learned all the rules of poker courtesy of his Uncle Matt.

(I still can't believe the boys stayed up so late.  It was the first time they even made it to midnight, 

and they stayed up past 1:00 AM!)  

Matt was probably up a little when he offered to call it a night and split the pot.

That sounded like too good of a deal to pass up considering it was after 2:00 AM!

We all slept in the next morning and when the boys finally crawled out of bed I found them doing this......

Matt you'd be proud.  Carter was using the correct words and taught Alex how to play.  

Not sure if that's a good thing or not though???