The Boneys: New Years Day Lunch!

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

New Years Day Lunch!

We continued our tradition from last year and hosted a New Years Day Lunch. Last year we just invited a few people from the neighborhood and a few friends from Tampa. This year we decided to follow the tradition that the neighborhood I grew up in. We invited the entire street and had a great turn out and enjoyed being around all of our great neighbors. We feel like we hit the jackpot in buying this house with all of the great people we are surrounded by!

We did a soup theme this year:

Shrimp and Sausage Gumbo

White Chicken Chili

Taco Soup

Gazpacho

Butternut Squash Soup(Marta made this)

and of course we also had Collard Greens and Black eyed peas!

This is the Gazpacho as we had several vegetarians coming!

The gumbo- we stirred the roux for an hour and a half....that is some love!

Finding a way to serve all of the soups was a challenge!

Thank you Marta for making these!

We had 14 kids so a kiddy table was a must!

With over thirty adults I made lots and lots of cornbread!

The party started!

This is Angelike- She has a 3 week old little girl and moved in next door to us this summer. She is beautiful inside and out! We also love having a baby girl on the street too!

Of course the Johnson's came since they experienced the New Years Day party last year!

The Austin family(the oldest son Max was out playing with all of the big boys) The little guy is Evan- he and Hampton are a month apart and Bradford and Miles are 3 months apart

This is part of the Roger's family-they don't live in our neighborhood but they came last year too and he works with Bradford- Jason is one of Bradford's favorite people in the world!

This is Miss Jamie. She is our babysitter. She came over that morning at 8 and watched the boys while Big B and I ran around like crazy people trying to pull of the lunch by noon! Miss Jamie has been a lifesaver to me over these last few months!