New Years Eve 2007

We still have a little over two hours before we officially ring in the new year way out here in Hawaii. New Year's is another holiday that just feels different here. We don't have the seasons like the mainland, leaves don't change color, time seems to lack definition.
Today was exciting because I finally got an address for Charlie and did our first mailing of the deployment. We have officially entered the land of priority mail, customs forms, and mile long post office lines, yea! Aidan and Rachel were excited to be able to pick their own cards for him and disappointed that we couldn't send Transformer or Dora toys.
We watched the ball drop at 7 p.m. here and then watched Surf's Up on pay per view.
Last year we took pictures of the kids by the television as the ball dropped. I guess I'm going to make it a tradition so I took one of Rachel this year too. Of course Aidan is way too cool for that, lol. I'm amazed at how much Rachel has changed.

Here she is ringing in 2008, cool and confident:


And in 2007:


And here we are lounging and looking like bums :)