Friday, January 1, 2010

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! We had a great New Year's Eve and New Year's Day (except for Gene spending most of New Year's Eve hauling my car to and from two different shops but that's another story).


Our New Year's Eve tradition is doing fondue. This was Gene's New Year's Day tradition growing up and when we started dating we made it our New Year's Eve tradition. It's great because you spend time cooking and talking. It's work, but well worth it. Most of the time, we feed the kids first and then do the fondue after they go to bed. This year, Austin wanted to stay up later so we fed both of them, put Andrew to bed, and Austin hung out with us while we did fondue. He didn't try anything, but he helped cook the food.


Before we had dinner, we went outside and shot some fireworks. We don't do much, but the kids don't know any different. We always have sparklers and a "grand finale" firework. We took Andrew outside too and he enjoyed it. We didn't get anything that had really loud pops so he wasn't really scared. Andrew's favorite was the snap pops. We'd throw them on the ground and he would stomp on them to make them pop.

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