happy new year

every year we bake up a variety of finger foods for new year's eve dinner, pour some champagne and sparkling cider and share it with our good friends the glatter/hamada family (steve was sick this year...so sad). 

then we play charades (not sure how that tradition started)..although this year it got so late we had to defer the game til new year's day

  and finally we celebrate the new year countdown with the country whose midnight corresponds with our 8pm (i think it was iceland maybe?) and light off some bottle rockets in the backyard, yell happy new years, hug each other......then go to bed.  it's actually quite a sweet little way to welcome in the new year.  here's to 2014!!