So many things to talk about...

Happy 2008! It's a new year and it already has started off with a bang! As most people know by now, Alistair has finally decided to walk; he started walking on New Year's Day (the last post has a video attached to see evidence). We have been busy, busy since New Year's Eve. The Sandholms flew in that morning and spent the week with us! It was so great to see them and was amazing to think it has been 3 months since we last saw them. Having 2 busy babies around the house is sure a lot of work and forget about having any clear floor space. The Alistair and Sully express comes through every 5 minutes or so and knocks over and/or dumps out anything we attempt to clean-up. We kind of gave up after a while and just waited until they went to bed! Sully loved our stairs and was like a bee to honey to them. He loved going up and down repeatedly albeit we had to really watch him because he would either try to go down head first or at some point get his legs caught underneath him and start to go. Alistair would try to race him down the stairs, but I don't think he got that Sully was a novice! Story time and everyone looks excited about it!New Year's Day was the annual Hennessey Ravioli party. We all got there around 10:30 and started up the machines. The guys all stuff the sausage and then the gals jump in after the sausages are done to roll out pasta and make raviolis. Judy made all the kids chef hats and aprons - except Alistair. He got the head chef ensemble - from head to toe! Sully got stripes on his apron since he was a seasoned sous chef.

The guys diligently at work - it is definitely a teamwork thing!The raviolis are coming together nicely!
Sully is having a good time rocking out on Alistair's Rocking Puppy!
Mmmmm - the finished product! Time to chow!

The weekend after New Years was our annual "French" night weekend with the Sandholms and Folgedalens (part of the reason the Sandholms came out). We headed out to Seabrook, which is out by Ocean Shores. It is a new seaside community that has tons of houses to rent that are very nice, state-of-the-art and very reasonable during the off season. We went out Friday and came home Sunday. We had a great time! Our group picture really says something about the evolution of this gathering - we are all dressed up, we have our wine glasses full and are about to eat our crab and shrimp cakes and on the edge of the table are cut-up chicken nuggets and a sippy cup! (:

Alistair is taking notes and learning so that one day he and Sully can cook all the food for us and all we need to do is sit around and be waited on! Ha, Ha!

Ah, empty glasses, empty bottles and very full stomachs!