{"id":415,"date":"2007-01-01T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2007-01-01T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T18:00:00","slug":"new-years-eve-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2007\/01\/new-years-eve-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had our big New Year&#8217;s feast last night&#8211;New Year&#8217;s Eve rather than on New Year&#8217;s Day. This gives everyone New Year&#8217;s Day to relax and rest up so that they are ready to go back to work and a regular schedule tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>These are pictures taken at dinner last night&#8211;we had the four immediate <span>members<\/span> of my family, the girlfriend and boyfriend of my son and daughter, and my parents. Our meal was simple&#8211;ham, mashed <span>potatoes<\/span>, peas, <span>broccoli<\/span>, salad and baking for desert&#8211;simple but <span>delicious<\/span>!<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/RZlPK4EgYRI\/AAAAAAAAALU\/fE4tnGMFuvs\/s400\/DSCN0030.JPG\" border=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/RZlQMIEgYTI\/AAAAAAAAALk\/SqhWVP9ulB0\/s400\/DSCN0033.JPG\" border=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/RZlQLYEgYSI\/AAAAAAAAALc\/t9BUcyhZRuk\/s400\/DSCN0032.JPG\" border=\"0\"><br \/>After dinner discussion was lively&#8211;the pros and cons of various large screen TV formats, computer technology, etc. This is my husband studying the research on TVs that he got off the <span>Internet<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/RZlRNYEgYWI\/AAAAAAAAAL8\/yoz71U4iS14\/s400\/DSCN0057.JPG\" border=\"0\"><br \/>This is my husband and mother&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/RZlRO4EgYXI\/AAAAAAAAAME\/R7xDxi87XnM\/s1600-h\/DSCN0060.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/RZlRO4EgYXI\/AAAAAAAAAME\/R7xDxi87XnM\/s400\/DSCN0060.JPG\" border=\"0\"><\/a> &#8230;and my son.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/RZlQNIEgYUI\/AAAAAAAAALs\/Mfvz24lzIko\/s400\/DSCN0048.JPG\" border=\"0\"><br \/>Later we spent the evening playing board <span>games<\/span>&#8212;<span>Wizard<\/span>, Sequence, and Scrabble.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/RZlRPoEgYYI\/AAAAAAAAAMM\/YvaSNdwUob8\/s1600-h\/New+Year%27s+Eve+2006+004.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/RZlRPoEgYYI\/AAAAAAAAAMM\/YvaSNdwUob8\/s400\/New+Year%27s+Eve+2006+004.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>The youngest finished up the evening with a movie while the oldest headed to bed&#8211;<span>even<\/span> if it wasn&#8217;t quite midnight in the Pacific!  After all, it was 2007 somewhere in the world already!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/RZlRQYEgYZI\/AAAAAAAAAMU\/s2JmkGkbrpM\/s400\/New+Year%27s+Eve+2006+005.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><span>This<\/span> morning, those younger members of the family are still asleep and my husband headed off to work. I have the house to myself and I am enjoying the quiet. <\/p>\n<p>I will leave you with a picture of Joey that sums up how I feel right now&#8211;too pooped to do much of anything after a great holiday season!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/RZlSj4EgYaI\/AAAAAAAAAMc\/jNLjB2qRKhA\/s400\/New+Year%27s+Eve+2006+002.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Happy New Year everyone!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had our big New Year&#8217;s feast last night&#8211;New Year&#8217;s Eve rather than on New Year&#8217;s Day. 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