Banging in The New year

For the first time we let the kids stay up until midnight to celebrate New years.

At midnight we went out onto our court with pots.......

 a colander...........

and wooden spoons to bang in the new year.

The Countessa was not willing to participate in the banging or even in a group photo (That's her running for Daddy)

Our Neighbors thought it was hysterical and came out to take pictures too. We live on a small court with only 5 other houses and my kids are the youngest on the court.  All the other "kids" on our court are either pre-teens, teens or college kids.