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Emily, Jeanne, and Melissa
Lisa and Seth with their lanterns
Arm bar UFC style applied by Dan on Melissa after a "white-washing"

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Patrick and Jessica have a little of the Captain in them.
Seth is sparkling.
It is New Year's so we get a kiss.
Melissa, Dan and I are posing in front of the fire.
Emily is being "white-washed" by Patrick.

And the Band Played ON

We all got song books and made requests and Jake and Seth played and played.It got to rockin...and Jessica and Patrick cut the rug so to speak.
Terry, Julie, Diane and Jessica are singing singing singing.....

Jake and Seth.

Our pyro's setting up a fireworks

Patrick, Seth, and Dan, getting some fireworks set up for the crowd. These are some of the smaller displays that can be set off closer to the group. We get the bigger one launched from up on the hill for maximum effect.

The Bonfire and Fireworks

Patrick with sparklersJeanne, Jessica, Kathy, Emily and Diane standing in the snow waiting for the fire works to start.

Dan and Melissa by the bonfire.The Boise Crew in front of the fire.
This is our "party" spot. The band is not yet set up.

More Lantern pictures

Patrick, Dan and Melissa getting their lantern lit. The lanterns are 100% biodegradable, you light the little patch and the lantern fills with the hot air and is ready to launch.Melissa with her lantern before the launch.

Emily is getting ready to launch her lantern, mine is gone already and I am getting my camera ready to take some pics. Do you like that shiny reflective tape on my rain jacket. This is my waterproof motorcycling jacket and it is quite reflective.
Patrick and Jessica bid good bye to their lanterns as the snow lightly falls.
My Mother, Dixie, with her lantern waiting for a light.

Sky Lanterns in the snow

As our New Year's Eve celebration surprise we launched our sky lanterns. We had lanterns of 6 different colors that we launched. Jeanne launching her lantern.
Dan launching his lantern
Jim launching his lantern
Kathy launching her lantern
Here we are getting our lanterns inflated so we can do a group launch.
It was a beautiful sight as our lanterns floated up into the snowy sky.
Patrick on the deck giving a trial run to make sure we can launch in the falling snow.

Happy New Year!! The Celebration

We had a great crowd of friends and family for New Year's Eve. We started off inside playing games and of course eating and drinking...but then the power went out...this picture was taken on one of the times that the power was on...notice the headlamps, flashlights and candles. It was snowing like crazy. We got about 6" from noon until about midnight. This hampered many from making it to the celebration and it made for a last night plowing of the driveway etc. Pictured are Melissa, Patrick, Jessica, Jim, Mom, Diane, Kathy, Bob, Emily, Terry, Me, Jeanne, Rush and Dan is taking the picture.