Happy New Year!

We had a VERY fun celebration this year on New Years Eve with Nannie & Grandpa, Aunt Bridget & Uncle Kevin! We had noise blowers, festive hats & glasses, silly string, party poppers, “princess juice” & a VERY special menu planned! We started celebrating New Years at noon, followed by a celebration every two hours with authentic cuisine & special mixed drinks from each country that was celebrating the new year! Mommy made some great food, and Uncle Kevin was a great bartender! We stuck to drinking our princess juice, but his grown-up drink sure looked good! We were even allowed to stay up until after 9pm, when we started asking to go to bed! We hope you all had a safe and fun New Years celebration too!

-Abby, Emily & Ben

Mommy had quite an extensive international menu planned (thanks to daddy’s brilliant idea this year)!

And Uncle Kevin had an even more extensive drink menu planned!

At 12 noon, we celebrated with Thailand with Chicken Satay skewers and Bangkok coolers…

At 1:30pm, we enjoyed some Indian cuisine of Chipati bread, Chana Masala, Lamb Vindaloo, Palak Paneer & Chai tea martinis… (even Grandpa tried some Indian food)!

At 4pm, we celebrated with Russia with blini’s (crepes) and Vodka Tonics…

… Unfortunately, the blini’s weren’t so easy to make, so we had to share the few that turned out descent… Mommy made Emily & Abby Aunt Jemima pancakes instead!

At 5pm, we rang in the new year for Greece with pita chips & hummus, and Greek Mojitos…

… and we followed that up quickly with a celebration at 6pm for Italy & Sweden, where we all enjoyed Swedish meatballs with lingonberry sauce, Caprese (tomato & mozzarella), Bruschetta, 007 drinks & an “Italian surfer” (this was mommy’s favorite drink of the night)!

…7pm turned out to be a fun one, when we enjoyed “Bangers in a blanket”, and daddy, Uncle Kevin, and EVEN NANNIE did car bombs (shots of Bailey’s dropped in a glass of Guinness & chugged)…

I don’t think Nannie liked it very much…

 

Even though we were asleep at 10pm, the grown-ups kept celebrating and enjoyed some Chocolate truffles from Brazil, but were tired of drinking, so only daddy & Uncle Kevin picked a drink to stick with the rest of the night…

At midnight, they were supposed to have crockpot Apple Pie & Champagne, but they were all so tired, that they had Nannie’s wonderful apple & lingonberry cake she made earlier instead, & they enjoyed some of our sparkling grape juice. What did you expect after a full day of eating and drinking?!?!?

We sure had a blast celebrating so many times!

 

We thought that 2011 was a FANTASTIC year, and we are VERY excited to see what 2012 is going to bring! Here are a few highlights we thought we’d share with you all!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!