Happy New Year!
The first post of 2019!
The first day of 2019 was a great one! Silas spent the night with us on New Year’s Eve and all the kids were up pretty early this morning. I think they were all ready to get back to playing a little more before Silas left. I know they all had fun together the last day of 2018.
We invited my parents, Michael, Megan, and Logan over for lunch to have our traditional German New Year’s Day “good luck” meal. The food that is supposed to bring good luck for the new year is sausage, sauerkraut, and potatoes (mashed). My family has had this meal for as long as I can remember and we used to go to my grandma’s house every New Year’s Day for this lunch. Hopefully we’re making our German Kottmyer ancestors proud by keeping this tradition going! It was a great lunch, and a great way to start the new year with family.
Later in the afternoon we went over to Melissa and John’s house to celebrate Melissa’s birthday. Nicole’s parents also came on their way back from their quad trip. Parker, Zac, and JJ all played with JJ’s new toys from Christmas and I tried to catch as much of the UK football game as I could. UK was playing Penn State in the Citrus Bowl and won by 3! Benny Snell Jr also broke the school’s rushing yards record. C-A-T-S!
John spent the past day cooking a brisket in the smoker for us to have for dinner. This was by far the best smoked brisket I’ve ever had! I tried to eat as much as I could and was stuffed. There were still a lot of leftovers so we took some home with us…lunch tomorrow! It was a great evening celebrating Melissa’s birthday. Parker was so worn out from playing all day that he fell asleep on the ride home. Zac took a nap on the drive there so he stayed up until his normal bed time…I think he enjoyed the extra attention.
And now that Zac’s gone to bed we’ve just been relaxing, watching a few episodes of Frasier. Tomorrow it’s back to work for me, and Nicole is watching Logan during the day…her last day of Christmas break.
One blog entry in the books, hopefully 364 to go!
