Christmas has gone by as well as New Years Eve, and this is now my first post of the new year 2012. Wow, the time has gone so fast and I can’t even believe that it was 11 years ago I graduated from high school, or that I met my love 7 1/2 years ago, or that we are celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary this Thursday. I guess time always fly by when you are having fun.

New Years Buffet: Pork Tenderloin, potato gratin, béarnaise sauce, salad with tomato and persimmons, plus small Trader Joes pies with ham/cheese and mozzarella/carmelized onions. Champagne, beer, or wine. Oh, and I finally got to use my new, white plate I bought at last year’s after-christmas-sale to put the pies on.
My parents have been here for 4 weeks, but I wish I could stop time and have them here for many, many more weeks as we have so much fun together.
Oh, almost forgot. While counting down the seconds to the new year our water heater really broke down and we had to turn of the hot water until the following day, buy a new water heater, install it, and finally have some warm water again. Thanks our night-guests over new years the water heater was installed properly and we are very grateful for that.

Yeah. I know. It’s embarrassing. It turned out to be 21 years old. We have been here for only 11. I always called it our ‘Crystal Cave’, but the new one is so not!

Happy New, hot water, 2012!