Happy New Year's Eve!!

Grammie and Grampie came over and celebrated New Year's Eve with us. We had our usual appetizers for dinner. After dinner Grammie and I opened a bottle of wine we received at our Christmas Open House and Grampie brought over some beer and we all sat around and colored pictures from R's new big coloring book she got for Christmas.

Happy New Year!

Happy 2010 everyone! Feels weird to be starting a new decade. I can't decide how I want to pronounce it-- I've been saying two-thousand-ten but that seems longer than twenty-ten. But twenty-ten just doesn't sound right. How are you doing it?

Anyway, the 4 of us had a fairly uneventful New Year's Eve. We continued my family's hallowed tradition of having appetizers for dinner on New Year's Eve. Our menu consisted of

Soy buffalo wings
Vegetable Gyoza and Vegetable Tempura from Trader Joe's
Leftover Chinese food from the night before

and, my family's Christmas Tea Punch, which is a must-have at every significant holiday event between decorating the Christmas tree and New Year's Day.

Our neighbor across the street gave us a bottle of sparkling apple cider, and we were all excited because we were going to open it and have it to toast with. Unfortunately, we totally forgot. And went to bed at 9:30. Geesh.

But Grammie and Grampie showed up on New Year's Day to show us how to really celebrate. We made hats out of lace doilies (each person has a different number on their hat) and Grampie had bought 5 2010 glasses for us to wear. (Hey, it was for charity.)