New Year's Eve 2008

We usually stay home on New Year's Eve and invite our friends over that have kids to have a nice quite evening of eating a visiting. Usually, its just the Mortemores who come by, but this year the Dorans decided to join us too!

Believe it or not, we everyone but one (poor Gavin was so tired) made it till midnight.

I think all had a great time!

Thanksgiving 2008

I started the Holiday by picking up Kevin's mom to spend Rachel's birthday with us, as well as spend the week. It was nice to have the extra set of hands, even if we all seemed to get her sick (Sorry about that Peggy). I was able to make home made pumpkin pie this year. I do have to say it was easy to make and tasted wonderful, so it may become a staple during the holidays. I was also able to make some zucchini bread, apple crisp and these cute little rice krispy treats for the kids.

This year was filled with lots of guests; the Mortemore, Miltz and Mooney families joined ours. We had a wonderful meal with contributions from everyone!

I especially liked Aimee's soup, but there were so many good things for sides that very little turkey was eaten. Do you like my thrown together table? I guess we are going to have to work on getting a real dinning room table if we want to do a big dinner again, but borrowing Judy's folding table to put with ours worked out well. It was nice to have the extra company, I know Rachel enjoyed playing with Adam and Caleb and all the extra adults (you know we never pay her any attention). Here are some of the pictures from the day...

By the time everyone left, things were cleaned up, turkey had been picked clean (Thanks Molly and Aimee), and everyone was full and tired. Rachel and Aidan took a while to finally go down, but I think they were both just overly tired and full of the excitement of the day...what do you think?

We loved having everyone over and hope to be able to do it again in the future!