The day after Christmas we left for the beach to celebrate our accomplishments this year.  We always have a New Years with the kids, and this year was no exception.  Our "tradition" since Daniley was born was to dress up spunky (costumey for the kids) and go for dinner at Stix and then shoot fireworks at the house.  I LOVE stix.  Daniley LOVES fireworks.  Danslen LOVES hot and sour soup.  Dan LOVES us!  This year, we still went out for Chinese (Thaiger Thai).  It was GREAT.  Then we took the kids out for juking and fireworks at the Harborwalk.  They have a HUGE celebration.  There was a band of course, and my kids were tearin' up the dance floor.  If they had left room for me, I would have as well.

As the night progressed, the crowd got older and wilder, so we moved the kids out to the marina and walked around admiring the million dollar yachts.  It was a fabulous, romantic evening to celebrate the year with our children.  Sometimes we all need to just slow down, look at our blessings, be proud of ourselves, and just capture the moment.  That's what we did.  Welcome 2013.  I hope you are as good to us as 2012.

Daniley took this picture.

 

 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

My kids were still wide open at 1am.  Were you?