New Years Eve Like You've Never Seen It Before

We went to Grandpa Peres' house for New Years Eve and to celebrate Steve's birthday. Anne and Rick and two of their girls were there, Teresa and Deron, and Grandpa Peres and Phyllis. We ate lots of yummy finger food, sang Happy Birthday to Steve, and played games. The most unusual activity of the night was when Uncle Rick started giving Scott and Noah physical challenges to try and see who could win. Scott and Noah are extremely competitive and Noah often beats Scott in things like this, so it was actually quite entertaining. The two activities they did that I didn't get on camera were push-ups and the splits. Go Uncle Rick!

The challenge was to see who could hold a pencil/pen up at shoulder level the longest. They're all smiles now.

It didn't take long for Scott to realize this was a little harder than he thought. Noah's still smiling.

Meanwhile, Joshua plays a game on the Ipad with Teresa and Deron.

Scott: C'mon Noah, isn't this getting hard?

Noah: ha, ha, ha. Piece of cake. Scott: I'm dying here!

Scott was really struggling. We were amazed at Noah's calm concentration.

Scott: Please, Noah. Isn't this bothering you? Noah: Nope.

Scott watches Noah like a hawk for any sign of weakness.

Scott's gonna blow. Noah is as calm as can be.

Scott's sweatin' bullets now. Noah is starting to cringe a little. I'm pretty sure they lasted about 10 minutes or so.

Next feat. Who can do the dead bug position the longest?

And the Superman position? Arms and legs off the ground.

Standing on one foot?

Serious concentration.

Rebecca and Elizabeth decided to give it a try too.

Joshua was just content playing games.