This was a really fun New Year’s Eve. However, explaining the whole idea of bringing on a New Year to a 3 year old isn’t really the easiest thing to do. He still gets confused about yesterday and tomorrow. So, the whole “new year” thing really doesn’t make much sense. Yet, in true Evin fashion, he claimed he knew what was going on and was in the mood for a celebration! Especially since we took him to his favorite restaurant–Hong Kong Gourmet Buffet. He LOVES this place. He loves it because he can eat all kinds of crazy stuff. On a typical visit he’ll eat octopus, squid, clams, oysters, crawdads, frog legs, snails, etc. We’ve been telling people about it for a while, but this time I took pictures!

We were also able to get some fireworks this year. Arizona just recently changed the law, allowing us to light some off. So we went and did a little shopping. Naturally, Evin picked out the frog firework. We lit it off as the grand finale and it was AWESOME. I wish I had known it was going to be so cool or I would have recorded a video. Oh, well. I think next year we’ll be picking more of those out!

After fireworks, we watched the live coverage of the ball dropping in NYC. Evin got to watch too and when it hit midnight (in NYC) we “clinked” our glasses and sipped our bubbly (apple juice for someone).

Katelyn enjoyed watching us all enjoy dinner, napped through the fireworks and joined us later for the NYC ball dropping festivities. She also stayed up a little later with us, but finally went to bed around 11p or so.

It was a fun New Year’s Eve celebration! Here’s a video and pics from the whole thing.

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