Here's Bailey before the big haircut...

...and after! "I got a haircut like Audrey!!!"

So, here's our modest little spread for NYE.  I'm drinking rum and coke, and listening to the fireworks.  Definitely enjoying this years celebration more than the last!

In the end, we spent the evening grazing on traditional Gamelin Family New Year's food, making a million toasts with prosecco and fruity sparkling mineral water and wearing silly hats.  There were fireworks aplenty before the girls went off to bed, but we woke them up anyway for the big shebang at midnight.  They were seriously unimpressed even though it sounded like the city was under attack.  After about five minutes of them not caring, John and I put the girls back in bed and sat under our comforter with the dining room windows open, drinking champagne and listening to the residual crackles and booms in our neighborhood. It was a happy new year.