We had a very low key New Year's Eve around the Cox house. John cooked the most incredible dinner for us last night. Rack of Lamb, mashed potatoes, roasted brussel sprouts and roasted butternut squash (I love it). The lamb was absolutely amazing!! I think it may now be my all-time favorite meal and usually, I'm not a huge lamb lover. But.. OMG!! It was incredible. We ate the leftovers for lunch today - was perfect. We rang in the new year out on the back porch under the blue moon with a good fire going in the firepit, drinking champagne and listening to all the fireworks going off around us!! Enjoyed it!
Can you believe it's actually 2010!! I can't. It feels like yesterday when the world was wrapped up in the turn of the century into the Millennium. We all thought the world would end and quickly found out at 12:01 am, 1/1/2000, that the world kept on going, nothing blew up, the lights didn't go out forever and the ATM's didn't start spitting out money! Much to our dismay!
Well... 10 years later.... and my how things have changed in my life.
The Past Decade has brought:
Divorce & happily, a New Love & Marriage (John)
Ten more years of growth for both Rachel (16) and Stephen (12)
Happy, healthy & smart children progressing well through school
Greater love for the simple things in life
Greater love for scrapbooking and memory keeping
Great wine and food!
Wonderful trips and tons of great memories
Two Employers since 2000 - Hanover & Wells Fargo
Great work colleagues
Three vehicles - Sequoia, Honda CRV and Jeep Wrangler
Purchased a house all on my own!
Just a small snippet of life over the past 10 years. So much more... not enough time to write it all!!
Ok - so let's continue.
Christmas 2009 was a wonderful time. I will post several pictures over the next few days, but they are all loaded in my Flickr photostream which you can access from the right sidebar.
We spent our Christmas in Boerne, TX with my parents, sisters, nieces & nephew. It was a lot of fun and a lot of food!! One thing we all know how to do well is cook and eat. And man... we did that quite well this year!! I think we just lived life by the meal. :-) Yummy!! Mom cooked amazing things this year including for Christmas dinner, a beef tenderloin with horseradish sauce that was killer!! Double yum! In addition to the tenderloin, we had cookies on top of cookies, dips and chips, kringle, breakfast casserole, brisket cooked by John, potatoes, pinto beans, lima beans and green beans (I kid you not!), ham, Christmas salad, cheese wafers, oreo cheesecake, pecan pie, apple pie, Cakebreak Cabernets and Vueve Cliquot champagne. Whew!!
I leave you with a picture of our family on Christmas morning!! More to come!
Have a happy day celebrating New Years!!
MA
2 comments:
Sounds like you have a marvelous and memorable Christmas.
Love the header.
Happy New Year to you and yours.
what fun to read this - my, we did eat a lot, didn't we.
Meme
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