New Year's Eve Traditions

With the Christmas festivities wrapping up, we are now looking forward to our New Year's Eve tradition...fireworks at the beach!  Every year we bring a few boxes of fireworks down to Castle beach near our house and do sparklers and a few more exciting (read: dangerous) types of firecrackers in the sand.  The kids dance and play around the fire pit and we ring in the new year with a bang and lots of laughs.  What are your New Year's Eve activity or food traditions?  Here's to you in 2010, Happy New Year!

Bananagrams

A friend told me about this fun game called Bananagrams. I'm totally loving the name, its so clever and I'm finding myself wishing I had come up with something so cool!   I found it on Amazon.com (click to link directly to it) for $15 and I'm considering buying it as a Christmas gift for my girls.  I've never played it myself, but I'll probably dive in and join the craze anyway...has anyone else ever played it?  Sounds like a fun game for the whole family without the hassle of counting up points and bickering over triple letter scores.  I'll let you know if its a hit or not...