Happy New Year!

Hooray for 2008!

We're very proud of ourselves for our New Year's Eve celebrating. This is how we felt like celebrating, but we actually motivated ourselves to go to a little party (where Mr. was the star of the show with his Dance Dance Revolution dance moves) and then drove around for an hour with Senor sleeping in the back of the car so that we could celebrate the New Year with some tasty sparkling cider and Unalaska's awesome fireworks display. They've had fireworks for a number of events since we've been here, but this is the first time we've been able to make it to midnight. Hooray for us! Here's the pictures to prove it.

Getting wild and crazy....


Mr. ringing in the New Year....

And the oh so glorious fireworks display....


We woke up the next day to the nicest day we've had all year (ha ha). Really though....Blue sky, snowy mountains, no wind (!?!). Incredible. So we headed out to try out our new snowshoes (too bad we didn't check email before we went to find out that Team Shadow had some free snowshoes for us...). Our camera was suffering from some sort of malady, so the pictures aren't too awesome. But it was a great day.


Then we came home for tasty halibut and pumpkin pie. I've been waiting to take advantage of my new Pampered Chef purchase of a whisk that reportedly could whip cream. I'm quite proud of my non-mixer owner status, but it does cut out the possibility for recipes with whipped cream or egg whites. So I figured I would give the whisk a try. We had to take turns when our arms got tired (2 turns each) and we possibly burned as many calories as eating the whip cream, but I'm pround to report....it works! Watch out egg whites....you just might be seeing a post about Lemon Meringue Pie here in the near future (once our arm muscles return to normal anyway).

And Senor reports that it was quite tasty....




My other Pampered Chef purchase......a pie slicer/scooper out-er in one (how have I lived without one of these for so long??)


Dawson teaching Senor the "lick the plate" food eating strategy...


2007 was a good year. It definitely gets the record for the most number of awake hours in one year anyway.

We're excited for 2008 and look forward to many adventures and fun times with friends and family and all the many good things to come. A sparkling cider cheers to all......