Happy New Year

What a wonderful day and way to start the New Year!!  And of course it involved eating.  This photo is for Vera—here’s what those beignets are supposed to look like:

We slept in this morning but were up, dressed and ready to go about 9am—off for more eating.  This morning we were invited to Miss Wanda and Mr. Phil’s—parents of Parker who is Ashley’s husband and Ashley is the daughter of Gina and Rollie—WHEW—everybody got that???  What a gracious, welcoming family!  And a beautiful home!!!  Michael got to try grits for the first time—shrimp and cheese grits—he actually liked the grits!  We so enjoyed meeting the Jenkins family!

A couple weeks ago, Gina called to tell me about a surprise—she and Rollie are going to be grandparents again.  Ashley and Parker will welcome Miss Jolee into the world around the first of May.  Talk about excitement around here, Michael and I have even caught it!

We headed back home after brunch and a couple of hours after that, guess what—we are eating again—our menu for good luck and wealth in the New Year.   Cabbage, black eyed peas, smoked pork and turkey.  That turkey had to be the best turkey I have ever eaten!  Michael ate a few peas for good luck but said he would have to hang onto my coat tails this year for the wealth part as he wasn’t eating any cabbage!  Dana and Rickey joined us as well as Mr. Rollie (Rollie’s Dad) and Ms. Jan.  Gina’s table.

We all sat around and groaned for a while before Gina and I dug out the sewing machine and had a lesson.  Michael and Rollie flew the remote control helicopters sending Emmi into a frenzy!  Fireworks, guns, thunder don’t bother Emmi but that buzzing helicopter sure did!  See the helicopter out in front of him to his right?

And of course we had to have dessert—cream cheese pound cake or king cake!

One of the best New Year’s Days we’ve ever had—simply wonderful spent with such good friends.