NYE and Playoffs in KC

Here are a few New Year's Eve pictures. We spent the evening with our friends down the street. It was a lovely night, and the kids had a blast kissing and making noise at midnight.

Evie specifically wore a twirly dress so she could swing it around when the time came. 

I live for pictures just like this! So much fun was had. 

The Chiefs were in the playoffs again this year so we drove out to freezing Kansas City with friends. 

It was a fun time, but hard to watch our team choke. 

It was very cold, but dry, which is really what matters to me. 

We have never taken so long to get out of the parking lot ever. We were fine, and just rolled with it, but there were plenty of blowups. These guys were standing in front of cars to try to stop them so they could get their truck backed out. The car in front of us rolled forward into their legs, so they slammed their hands down angrily on the hood. Then the driver got out and shoved one of the guys clear out of the way. I thought we were about to see a true fight, but these guys were clearly drunk, and sort of stumbled out of the way. Ben let them back out in front of us. We were relieved and disappointed not to get to see Ben break up a fight. It's a thing he excels at. 

We had to get pictures with the waterfall in our hotel. That was fun. 

Then we headed out to Power and Light district to hang out. It was pretty tame out there with the loss, and the Titans fans were so shocked to have won, that they were not being awful about it at all. We tried a new pizza place and were happily surprised how much we enjoyed it. We'll still keep going back to Minsky's though. There was a convenient shuttle bus that took us exactly where we wanted to go and back. The least pleasant part was the high as a kite guy wandering back and forth through the train, mumbling to himself and making sure everyone on board saw that he had 2 guns on him. I was glad when he got off at his stop. Ben disappeared while we were waiting to go back to the hotel, and had gone wandering. He made us all come see the old train station. It was definitely worth seeing.