New Year's Day is my favorite Holiday.
In Brazil we jump 7 waves and hope for good luck.
We wear all white and eat good food.
Kids go around to the adults and say bom principio "good beginnings" and are given coins in exchange.
Most adults are crazy drunk or on a bad hang over on New Year's day so if you're a smart kid you can often make out like a bandit.
January 1st is also the day a certain person was born.
He was a preemie and looked like a baby frog, barely surviving.
Now, I think it's safe to say that he's full on thriving.
Christian Tobler Palmer
I am ridiculously in love with you.
Please live until you're 109.
Happy Birthday.
xoxo, me.
If today is not your birthday then you get a Happy New Year instead.
Happy New Year.
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Pop! Crackle! BANG! Bazoooom!
May 2011 be filled with pure excitement.
Health, incredible health.
Success, however you decide to define it for yourself.
Friendship.
Charity.
Tickle torture induced laughter
and love.
An incredible amount of love where you thrive, thrive, and then when you think you can't you realize that you can and you thrive a little bit more.
I am bursting at the seams with excitement for 2011. I am going to allow myself to believe that all things are possible and then I'm going to make them possible. With Christian by my side and two radical kids to raise could I allow myself to think any less?!
I can't!
I won't!
Two Thousand Eleven, I love you already.
Happy New Year.
xoxo
Da
P.S. In case you need a New Year's resolution jumping off Waimea should go top on your list!
The pics are from our last trip and the vid is from devinsupertramp found via my cool friend Mark Lee, who helped shoot the images from the water. Cool stuff.
