HAPPY
NEW YEAR!!
WELCOME TO 2005

So what did you for the New Year? I worked. Okay, well it wasn’t really hard work – but it was a paying gig. I went to the New Year’s Party at the Houstonian to do party photography. I got all swanky and headed out to rub shoulders with the pretty people…

I did the 8:00 – 10:30 shift and took a lot of pictures, had some great food and listened to some excellent bands. Before all the drunks hit the road, I decided to head back to the neighborhood to ring in the actual new year. Once back, things were rocking down at the Gray household…

Della and Kathy were all grins as they prepared the champagne…

The story here seems to be Kathy worried about what CPS will think of Kaycie drinking champagne with two hands or the fact that Andy seems jealous because he doesn’t have any…

(Kaycie was faking – she didn’t really chug the champagne)

This is your brain on champagne…

Hollen (sp?) and Courtney rang in 2005 in fine fashion…

The boys were busy with the serious business of blowing things up…

Oooh, check out the fireworks… uh, Scott… over here…

At some point Rodney and Rob started dancing and thats when everyone knew it was a party…

Della and Mike were happy – but check out Jake… he seems to be feeling no pain…

I’m not sure what was said, but we certainly thought it was funny…

There really were a lot of fireworks too, it was just hard to get a good pic of them. This one looked cool though…

Around 2AM Rob broke out the Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy and others to the delight of his new best-friend, Andy…

It was a loooong evening as we finally split up around 3:15 AM and I walked the 50 yards back to my house. It was a lot of fun though and good to get the neighborhood back together.

On the way home, I ran into Alison who was just returning from her own celebration of the new year…