Celebrate Valentine's with Pictures from New Year's Eve

We celebrated Christmas Eve on New Year's Eve.... here are some pictures of our evening...

First, there was cookie cake baking:

Next, the gift exchange (this was B's gift for me, but he wanted to try it on). Then, book reading. Then the traditional konjak and sweets for Santa.

And then the neighbors started shooting fireworks out their window. The news was proud to report a decrease in the number of people wounded as a result of this...