New Years Eve in Raleigh

New Years Eve now with small children takes on a whole other character shall we say. Especially when you have a baby that doesn't sleep through the night. The desire to stay up until midnight drinking loses it's appeal real quickly. Thank goodness for close friends also with small children however!! And "early acorn" drops in Raleigh!

We went over to our good friends the Brantley's for drinks and some munchies. Arden would have been content staying over there with 2 of her best friends, Jacob & Charlotte. Arden is pretty much in between ages of them and enjoys playing with both of them so much.

We for some reason we were bound and determined to do something New Years Eve-ish and headed downtown to Fayetteville St. for the kid-friendly early acorn drop which is at 7pm. Too bad it started raining right as we got there, and we didn't really prep Arden for all the commotion that would occur pretty much as soon as we arrived (you know us Drenzeks, always running late!) so she was a bit scared and wondering why we left playing with her friends for all of this? lol and Kyla pretty much slept through the whole thing.

Because shouldn't everyone wear a tutu for New Years?

But we did manage to also have a brief rendezvous with a high school friend of mine that was in town for a party and happened to be on Fayetteville St. brief as it was in rain and with two tired kids.

Home by 9, in bed by 10- HAPPY NEW YEARS!!