For the last several years, Angie and I and our respective significant others have celebrated New Years Eve together. With all of the other holiday celebrations, we don’t usually get to spend much time together in December so NYE has always provided us a time together to celebrate, and 2008 wasn’t any different. Since our lives are so much easier if we can hang out at home in the evenings to put the little man to bed on time, Angie and Jim ventured out to our house for an evening of food and laughs.
We opted for an array of appetizers and finger foods so that we could gorge ourselves through the evening. I fixed my version of Chili’s Skillet Queso, cocktail meatballs, spinach balls, and a couple of other dips. Angie fixed her famous jalapeño poppers and rum balls plus she brought a box of wonderfully decadent chocolate cheesecakes. (The Rx for New Years Day was a bottle of Tums and a trip to the gym!)
We decided that the appropriate attire for a NYE at home was PJs. We all sported some of our favorite jammie pants – Angie in Marvin the Martian, Jim in Jack Daniels, Chris in Guitar Hero, and me in Snoopy. We basically hung out, ate, drank, and had a merry old time while we exchanged Christmas gifts, played Guitar Hero and then a couple of rounds of Apples to Apples. The seriously sad part was that we were all yawning by 11:00 and after a New Year’s toast, we wrapped up the festivities by 12:15am. Talk about a bunch of old married folks!
We didn’t snap a whole bunch of pictures, but probably the most hilarious on was taken of Logan sitting on his Aunt Angie’s lap and making a play for her beer. In Angie’s defense, she was sitting there innocently hanging out while Logan was making the play for the bottle. He seems to think that any and all bottles are his. Please don’t call CPS! :-)
Happy 2009!
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