Happy New Year!

We spent New Years Eve at our good friends The Hortons' house. The girls go to school with their daughter Emily, and they invited us and another couple, The Moffetts, over. We ate a yummy dinner, we popped fireworks, and visited until about 11:00. It's sad that a kids version of a New Years Eve party ends with everyone asleep by midnight!

When the girls were younger, they were terrified of fireworks. Fortunately, they have outgrown this fear! While the kids stuck to the safer things like Snaps and Sparklers, the dads all had fun making big booms! In fact, after about 20 minutes, the kids went inside to finish their movie, while the grownups stayed outside and finished the fireworks!

By far, the Snaps were the favorite!

Sparklers - notice the kids had on safety goggles compliments of Emily's mom, a pediatrician. Working in the ER made her invest in some goggles!

New Year's Day we got up at went to a brunch at our friends', the Englands. Then we took the girls to see The Tale of Desperaux. We have had such a great 2 week vacation, and we are not looking forward to going back to school!