Happy New Year!

It's 2008! WOW! We had a wonderful time celebrating the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008. We invited a few of our friends over, and their children, and had a great time hanging out. First of all, we wondered if the kids would actually make it to midnight, so we planned an early New Year's. When living in California it was easy because all you had to do was celebrate with New York. Well, since we are only one hour different that wasn't going to work. We chose 9pm, just because it was a good time and we celebrated the New Year with Argentina!

The kids made some homemade shakers to make noise with for the countdown. That turned out to be really fun...and noisy! Our plan was to count backwards from 10, shake the shakers and yell Happy New Year, run around the front yard screaming, make a toast with sparkling cider and then go kiss their moms. It went really well, the kids had a great time.

The adults just hung out and ate some food. We didn't have much of a plan, just enjoyed talking to each other and then, of course, eating the fresh New Year's cookies...YUMMY! I was pleasantly surprised by how good they were, I wasn't sure if I could pull it off.

When midnight came around Ethan was still awake and was a little confused as to why we shouted Happy New Year again, we just told him he could scream again and make another toast and he seemed to be okay with that. We had such a great time! Of course, when we chose our wedding date 6 years ago we knew that every year we would celebrate in some form or another, we thought that would be pretty neat. We couldn't be happier. We hope that your New Year's celebration was as fun as ours and a sign of the great things to come in 2008!