New Year's Eve

Ben and I had Mom and Dad over for dinner for New Year's Eve! Awww, Dad and Felix.

Ben and Dad had matching outfits!

I made Smitten Kitchen's mushroom lasagna for dinner.

Pudding cups for dessert! Happy New Year's Eve!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! Dad cooked up a big batch of eggs.

The egg master!

Christmas breakfast!

Look at that enormous present! I wonder who it's for?

 

It's for Dad! I wonder what it could be!?

It's a guitar! Dad's very own signature model DE-11! He designed this guitar but didn't own one of his own. Until now!

For dinner we had wedge salads...

...plus meatloaf and mashed potatoes! Yum!

Merry Christmas!

Pumpkin and apple pies for dessert.

Christmas Eve

It's Christmas Eve! We started our holiday fun two nights ago, when Uncle John and Uncle Mark arrived to visit! We did plenty of Covid testing to make sure we were all safe.

On Wednesday night we had tomato soup and ham sandwiches.

Last night we had pot roast, scalloped potatoes and broccoli.

This morning I took Felix on a great Christmas Eve walk down along the bike path!

Cheers! Our favorite holiday beverage, the Fairytale of New York!

Santa!!!

Family photos! Jazz hands:

Peace!

SERIOUS.

Blowing kisses except Santa got naughty.

Oh, look over there!

Santa with the ladies!

We had a taco bar for Christmas Eve dinner!

It's hard to beat a taco bar.

Christmas cookies!

We also had an eggnog pie from the Athens Bread Company. Yum!! 

Hike with Felix

This morning we went on a hike with Felix. LOOK at that handsome, majestic beast! I love him so much.

Ugly Sweater Party

Tonight was Neal's Ugly Sweater Christmas Party! Abby, Sarah, Sarah and I got together to MAKE our own ugly sweaters. It was so much fun!! Abby and I even got matching Xmas leggings.

Look at those beautiful ladies in ugly sweaters! Merry Christmas!

 

Christmas Shopping

This weekend was our annual shopping trip to Easton in Columbus! We always wear our cupcake hats and it ALWAYS causes a scene! People can't get enough of the cupcake hats!

Cocktails at Smith & Wollensky last night after a long day of shopping. Cheers!

Today was another day of shopping, with lunch at Brassica! 

It's so good!!

Happy Birthday, Mer!

Mer's birthday was yesterday! We gathered tonight to celebrate. Pete made homemade pizza for dinner. My favorite food!!

Yum, pizza and salad!

Make a wish!

 

Happy birthday, sissie!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! We gathered at Mer, Pete and Kate's. Look at Felix and Lucy being SO GOOD!!!

Cheers! Fairytale of New York, our favorite holiday beverage. I was in charge of orange rind garnish and peeled the skin off my thumb! It hurt but I think I finally learned how to peel an orange (and how NOT to peel an orange!).

Peace!

Look at those dogs hovering.

Lucy gets as CLOSE AS POSSIBLE.

We found this old drawing that I did of Mom and Dad's house! From back when we had Tyler! There's Tyler out in the yard. And Dad is grilling something on the front porch!

Time to eat!

Yum. Everything was so delicious.

Pie time! We had four kinds. Pecan:

Apple:

Pumpkin:

Cranberry:

All together now!