Oh Haha I must be missing pings xD <3 sorry! Life has been crazy lately :,D

It's just because how family has came into visit :P my brother in law's mom had come to visit a little before Christmas and I had never met her. Everyone wanted to spend as much time as possible with her before she had to leave ^^ but then after that the rest of my more immediate family had came into town :P So really it's just been a lot of visiting and going to other's houses (well the houses of family that live near us) with them ^^; buttttt between us all there 23ish nieces and nephews and over over 30 family members at a time at a house so it's a tad chaotic xD

Oh!!! And thank you ;-; I did have to throw on some hair though xD I had forgot I sold a wig :,D Yours is lovely as well :D <3 tbh I saw yours and it inspired me to throw this one on <3 love the gold!

Oh my! Big family with lot's of fun to go around!

oh yes! There is always something going on Haha. Whether it be cooking or a board game you can't be bored xD

Oh, I only pinged once to start the game off for challenge 1. Best subscribe for the thread if you want to participate for today so you don´t miss new posts! :-)

That´s a lot of family, wow! Hope it wasn´t too stressful and you had lots of fun! <3

Well other peple have traditions. My tradition is to cuddle my dogs whoa re terrified of fireworks.

The rest of my family will be watching the new years eve fireworks on tv and the celebrations going on in New York, and San Francisco. They have a party with food, like chips and dip, cheese balls, sparkling apple cider... This year they are having "friendship nachos" aka tortilla chips with everything (including hot melty cheese) available as toppings, so called after the TV show "Psyche." Then they will get out their musical instruments and jam together as a family at midnight, and it usually breaks out into a cacophony of noises eventually - just to make a lot of noise to celebrate.

Today is also the birthday of one of my moms friends so I am making her cupcakes to bring to her. Caramel flavored cupcakes with a salted caramel frosting. ^^

hugs I hope your celebrations have been going well! It's only 7AM (ish) here so I have a long way to wait.

I did <3 ^^

And yep! I mean it was a little stressful but not bad :) it was the first time people had ever stayed the night at our house so ^^; but tbh I'm just drained of energy and that's all :P

I´ll wait with you! <3 I prefer a quiet Sylvester, too.

Challenge 3 is still up.

I can feel you there! ^-^

Oh, your avie changed! Why doesn´t mine? Go go go!

hugs thanks! <3 I also like it quite but I like all night times to be quiet. I am generally asleep by 8PM at night. I am never good at staying up anymore. When I was in high school I could do all nighters or stay up super late but I had way better health back then!

I had to spam the wear button and reload it a few times Haha ^^; its been a but problematic xD

I would love to go to sleep early, too, yet there are two difficulties: once, I have to work most days until 9pm and we don´t have dinner before 10ish because of this and second, I would miss talking to you all here. <3

I have to try this, too.

oh I love all the background stuff!!!

I love your new themed HA!! I need to make one! Yes getting to sleep early would be very problematic if dinner is so late and you work so late! I used to work late and then I didn't get to bed until 10 or 11PM at night, but I generally have been an early riser.

Also here is my entry for round 3 (all of the art, words, etc are done by me so no credit needs be given outside of that).

Thank you! I was amazed that it changed after all, LOL

Oh wow, love, congrats! Wonderful entry, wish and picture! <3

Thanks! I really love my Dax character, he is patterned after my real life border collie, Kodiak Dax - so I had to use him in an adventure cave scene that I had originally intended for my other pet, but hey, it works out! They both love crystals and adventure!

You are talented! <3

hugs Thank you so much! It takes a lot of effort (from pain) but sometimes I can get things on the computer/digital. Most of my things are painted or drawn on real mediums not digital. ^^

CHALLENGE 4 >>>

Back to the future today!

Create a HA sporting the and win the skirt and 50 raffle tickets! <3 I´ll choose the most beautiful one at 11.30am! There´ll be no other challenges until then to give us a little break. Then we´ll fall back into a quicker step again! :-)

Ahh I see yea true XD I gotcha hehe :)

Darn! I have to leave to go the to doctor's appt. I love making HA's. <3