2010 New Years Eve

I absolutely love celebrating New Year's Eve in Hawaii. I love the excitement, the feeling of hope for the new year, the celebrations for the end of the current year, and especially all the fireworks! It's such an awesome tradition, and I'm really bummed that they are banning it from now on. I really wanted the kids to be able to celebrate the new years the way I did growing up, with tons of fireworks staying up past midnight. Well at least we had this year to go out with a bang. The kids absolutely LOVED it, even Isla, although I made her go to bed at 9pm.

Playing with the sparklers.

I love Isla's reaction here.

Our Shimekazari hung up, and grilling out some teriyaki pork.

Surprisingly, Kainoa wasn't scared to light the fireworks.

Some of the ono food.

Some of our friends came over to celebrate with us.

Kainoa and Jamie getting part 1 of the big bang ready. We had 2 of these to light at midnight.

And of video of the fireworks going off at midnight. It was crazy insane. Aerials going off in all directions, neighbors lighting up, car alarms going off.