For as long as I can remember, I’ve spent every New Year’s Day watching the Mummers Day Parade – it’s been a tradition of sorts in my family and some of my family members even go down every year all day to watch it in person. Bill and I were talking about doing that this year but decided we’d rather stay in all day and relax in our PJs while watching it since we’ve had a busy few weeks. Maybe next year we will make the trek down, but I’m glad we didn’t today because it is TOO cold! We even did the Mummers Strut at our wedding!
Our New Year’s Eve was a lot of fun. We went over our pastor’s house first and met some new people that recently started coming to our church. We hung out there until about 7:30 and then headed over to our friends’ house for lots of card games, flip cup, and of course beer pong. I drank water throughout the night, I was going to switch to soda but I actually felt somewhat awake so I didn’t have to. I snacked/eat a lot of yummy food but didn’t take any pictures – it was too awkward to balance a camera, a cup, and a plate 
Once the ball dropped, my friend’s uncle had set up this HUGE air horns attached to a compressor so that they could sound them off once it hit midnight. They did it last year too, but I forgot how hysterical it really was!
You can tell we are all getting older because around 1am, we were all sitting around playing cards and half asleep! Bill and I left at 2am and I was completely exhausted, so much so that I slept until 10am. I honestly cannot remember the last time I did that! I must admit that I got up at 7am wide awake but decided to get back in bed!
Bill got up around 11:30 and I’m sure he cannot remember the last time he slept that late either haha… I waited to have breakfast/lunch with him simply because I’ve been laying on the couch watching the mummers and haven’t been hungry in the slightest – I definitely ate a lot yesterday so I guess I’m still full haha… Our breakfast turned into lunch though because by the time we ate it was 12:45pm!
We started out with coffee…
Then, I whipped up some whole wheat blueberry-banana-pecan pancakes…
Here’s a banana filled bite…
I also had a Morningstar breakfast patty on the side…
What a perfectly filling and yummy way to start the first day of 2009!
Bill and I have a fun, relaxing day ahead of us. We are going to take down our Christmas tree (which I’m sad about), rent some movies, live in sweatpants for the day, and have tons of FONDUE later (since we received a new fondue pot)…
What are your plans for today?
