Welcome 2009! Joey and I had a nice New Year's Eve at home! We went to eat at Cotton Patch and then came home for an evening of fun and games. We played on our Wii for a while and then played Scattegories. We really enjoy playing games with each other and do not get to do it very often. Around midnight in NYC we watched the ball drop, and then watched the Big D NYE (Dallas pretending to be New York City) to ring in 2009.
We watched the Rose Parade this morning and the TV was on with football for the rest of the day! For dinner we had a delicious grilled pork loin, hashbrown potato casserole, and the traditional black-eyed peas and cornbread.
Then for dessert we had Flaming Jubilees, a New Year Day tradition by Gran. Flaming Jubilees are pound cake, ice cream, cherries, and a sugar cube soaked in orange extract that is lite on fire. Since we did not have any sugar cubes, Joey tried to make some sugar cubes with sugar and water. After they dried then I poured the orange extract. Our makeshift sugar cubes worked! (Not quite the flame that a real sugar cubes puts off, but they worked!) 
Our makeshift sugar cubes
Of course to make the tradition complete, we sang Auld Lang Syne before blowing the flames out. It is a fun, yummy tradition!
3 comments:
Happy 2009 to both of you!!
Sounds very similar to our New Year celebrations!! Hope you have a wonderful 2009.
I left my comment at 6:10....not 4:10 for those of you who commented last time :)
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