Happy New Year!

Welcome, 2012.  Hope you're as excited as Lucy about heading into a happy and healthy New Year!

Lucy is working on a painting project, Jake is out for a bike ride.  It's a beautiful, almost unbelievably warm day here.  We've been reading Lucy Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary.  A nice start to the year, indeed.

For the afternoon, we had some fun taking care of our friend Sue's kitties:

And yes, there are kitties, but the picture only features one (Ickle) because Dorian is clearly terrified of Lucy. Ickle is the brave one.  Lucy LOVES these cats.

After a family walk on the riverwalk (shown above), Jake made us some lovely cocktails:

Not to worry, that one is a kid-friendly cocktail. 

Lucy wore her lovely party hat and hosted a fete for some of her stuffed animals.

 

We particularly enjoyed sipping our first fancy cocktails using our Christmas presents -- Jake got me these lovely vintage martini glasses.  They're a light green color -- "Depression Glass," I think?  But surely someone else out there (Sadowski?) knows better than me.  Rose got me these lovely cocktail napkins, too.  Delightful!  I declare 2012 "Year of the Cocktail"!