We welcomed our second son Akim into the world on New Year’s eve 1988. Sometimes, we feel kinda put out that we won’t be able to have big birthday celebrations for him as almost everyone will be busy with New Year’s eve festivities. But we always try to come up with something to keep his milestone celebration going, even when others are distracted or out of town . Instead of trying to out-do New Year’s eve, we pour all the goodness of his red-letter day - family, cake and eating out every year. So at least one day a year he gets all that “you are special today“ energy. And on the last day of 2014 we made whoopee in the City of Pines.