Happy New Year!

We've had a wonderful Christmas vacation.

Lots of relaxing

sleeping in

reading

movie watching

(Little Women, a tradition..

Crazy, Stupid, Love

The Help

Midnight in Paris

and many

many episodes of 

Mad Men. :)

  

Today we continued our tradition

of throwing our stones in the ocean 

for the New Year.

After Mass,

 we went to the beach,

found our rocks, 

wrote what we'd like for the New Year

and threw them in.

I should add that it was sunny and in the 50's.

The beach parking lot looked like it does in August.

Not right.

Last night,

New Years Eve,

we kept with tradition

and each wrote on paper

what we'd like to 

lose

or forget

about 2011.

We fold them up,

and throw them in the fire.

AND

 traditionally,

on New Years Eve

we allow the kids to 

pick out junk food.

Lots of it.

Seriously,

they eat it until they 

can't anymore.

And then we do it again next year.

I'm so glad there are

364 more days

until we have to eat like that again.