Happy New Year

We closed out 2009 at my parent's with a New Year's Eve dinner followed by a marshmallow roast and fireworks display.
Lucas did not quite get the part about roasting the marshmallow and promptly removed his marshmallow from the skewer.
It was pretty cold and windy too. The perfect combination for a fire, right?So happy to have a big marshmallow all to himself.
A picture with the blue moon in the background. You can barely see it but it's there and no it's not blue.
Getting ready for the fireworks show, the illegal fireworks show mind you.
Waiting for the egg laying chicken firecracker.
The last picture of them before they caught on fire. Not really but with the wind blowing like crazy I'm surprised only the marshmallows got toasted.
Christina writing a New Year's message with her sparkler.
Bubby getting into the action. My dad would say "shake it, shake it" and he'd go crazy.
He really, really loved the sparklers. A little too much for my liking and makes me think I should start hiding all fire sources from him. Oh boys!
Even Grace shook a sparkler or two. Grace! I was really surprised at this one. Not surprising that she held her nose. Later after the fireworks display was over, I started thinking about what I would have said in the ER if we'd had to take one of the in after they caught fire or burned their hands/face (take your pick). Probably not my best parenting moment to let my almost 2 and 4 year old play with sparklers. I don't know. Let me just say that there was a lot of close, adult supervision. So close that I almost ended up with burns to my thighs and face a couple of times.
The pyrotechnician himself. The apple really does not fall far from the tree, right? This picture was with the $3 "big gun" of the night which the fireworks guy sold as a "fountain of fireworks" and nothing that would scare a 3 year old. Well it was a fountain, probably the loudest I've ever seen and it lasted several minutes. Too funny especially since we were trying to be discrete about popping fireworks. Definitely freaked out the kids. Good job, Daddy!
Snacking on a New Year's dessert of chocolate covered strawberries and buenuelos after the countdown to 8 o'clock. You didn't really think we stayed up until midnight.
We went the whole nine yards----dinner, roasted marshmallows, fireworks, champagne, hats and blowers.
A rare photo of Steve and I.
And an even more rare photo with all of us with our hats on. Sort of.

Well, Happy New Year everyone! Good riddance 2009 and hello 2010! I can't wait to see what the new year brings.