celebrated New Year’s Eve tonight as Cyndi and Ron head home to Ottawa tomorrow…

there is a fairly set menu for New Year’s Eve… escargot in mushroom caps followed by steak and lobster… this year we also had Caesar salad and twice stuffed potatoes…

twice stuffed potatoes, ready for the oven…

nearly forgot to put the potatoes in this afternoon but Cyndi was quick to remind me, lol… had to make a few that didn’t have onions for some special people…

escargot in mushroom caps…

at our house Christmas was always for the kids, but New Year’s was for the adults… for a number of years we went to friends and brought the little kids with us and put them to bed before we began to organize the dinner… not sure that a year has gone by that we didn’t barbecue our dinner… many years later the girls would come by for dinner on their way out to their New Year’s Eve parties…

the obligatory picture…

now we tend to include the little boys in the celebration… tonight, adults had champagne and there was sparkling cider for the rest…

stars of the dinner…

so far only one of the kids doesn’t want lobster, sigh… but it is wonderful to see them test new foods… we had some fun with the butter warmers as no matter where Crystal sits her warmer is always the coolest…

an evening with family while we are still all together…