VACATION!!!

Brian and I both commented that this might have been our best family vacation yet. We stayed at Brian's aunt and uncle's house in Cleveland. We always spend New Year's Eve there, but this year was special because it was also Aunt Nancy's 50th b-day. On New Year's Eve we celebrated with most of her family. If you look closely at the picture with the people all standing you will notice that they are holding their shoes. At midnight we celebrated the Italian tradition of tapping everyone on the booty with a shoe and you say "Out with the old and in with the new." Uncle Al is Italian--like real Italian. His mom and dad came from Italy and his mom still speaks it. So we always do thing the Italian way when we go to Clevelend, which Brian doesn't mind because it usually includes some kind of salted cured meat and stinky cheese that you can't get here.

Other than the big party we did a lot of sitting around watching movies and eating. It was really fun and relaxing. Thanks Al, Nancy, and Sam!!