Ringing OUT the Old Year

(I am dating this 1/1/11 - but you all know I didn't write it until a month later) I have a fabulous idea for celebrating the New Year that I absolutely want to start (next year). It is to celebrate every hour by doing something that would be done where it is already midnight starting about 6 and then getting to bed by 10. Whoo hoo, party animal!! This year we did the usual. Fondue at Bruce and Sally's. Brittany and Jeremy hunt us up some pheasant and then cut up some chicken and steak (yeah, you know what I choose in that grouping of meats). Then we sit at the table and take hours to cook tiny bite size pieces of meat. It is a surprisingly good time!! Then after that is cleaned up, we do a big dance party. (I run the video camera!) The kids love this. My boys can groove!! (Or so they think.) Then we watch TV until it is almost midnight. As I sat on the couch updating my blog, the rest of the entire family went outside to light off fireworks. (I am the smart one - it was like 3 degrees or something out there!) During the week leading up to New Year Jeff had completed his follow up CT scans, a follow up with his urologist, a colonoscopy, and an MRI (ordered by a sports medicine doctor for the leg that was still in pain after the injury he had before our trip to Hawaii). The word we received on all of these visits was pretty positive. I think my post on Facebook was something to the effect of "Good Riddance 2010, I am cautiosly optomistic about 2011!" (Dun, dun, dun....)