New Years Eve

New Years Eve...Just another reason to have a get together! This turned out to be one of the most enjoyable, most relaxing parties we've ever had. We decided to stay in this year instead of going out to a restaurant. The York's, Moffatt's & the Crocker's came over about 6:30 and we slowly made dinner while having drinks and eating H'ors deurves. The menu was mouth watering, as you will see below.


This is part of the center piece. As you can see it was decorated with cedar branches, white votive's, pine cones, little red balls, and the hurricane globe in the middle. It was beautiful. We kept the light low all night.

Me & April all dressed up (what? we don't have any where to go but we have the dresses and they must be worn!)

Chef John preparing our ever lovely salads.

The table just waiting for us to dine.

This was the scrumptious Multan Lava Cake topped with Tillamook Vanilla Bean Ice Cream that was prepared by Jami for dessert.

Rice rolls for appetizers. We also had Cowboy Caviar and Artichoke/Spinach dip. Yummy!

Just another peak at those great salads! Since they were a little on the fancy side (apples, star fruit, candied walnuts, yellow & red peppers) John, knowing Jay wouldn't go for some of those things, topped Jay's salad with Reese's pieces! It was funny! The salad was topped with a red raspberry vinaigrette...Jay had Wishbone.

We finally sat down to eat the main course at 8:30 pm.

Here is Steph with the amazing Prime Rib. It was our first time making it and it was superb.

Along with the Prime Rib we had Au Jue, Horse Radish sauce, Cream Cheese Mashed Potatoes, Grilled Veggies & Dinner Rolls.

Bon Apetite!
The Hughes
The Crocker's

The York's
The Moffatt's
The Ladies!
The whole party.
We finished the night by risking our health by walking outside in the freezing cold weather to hot tub in a tub that was too hot to stay in very long. We were all PINK when we got back into the house, but we were just in time to ring in the new year by watching Carson's ball drop.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!


We had sent all the kids to the Crocker's so not long after 12:00 we headed out to retrieve our children. We really did have a fabulous time!