Happy New Year

Happy New Year 2011

May your life be filled with Happiness and Good Health

We brought the New Year in by inviting a few of our

neighbors to join us for Dinner, and a glass (or 2) of good cheer.

Carol, Terry, Guy, Marie and Arlyn

Carol, Rich, Sabrina, Marie & Arlyn

Bridgette and to the left, her puppy, Phoebe

We all actually stayed awake until a little after 11, then some

left to go to the beach to watch the fireworks, a few were going home to crawl into their beds and we watched the fireworks from our deck.

2010 passed by much too quickly...

As we toasted in 2011, we wondered what the year

ahead will bring for us.

We sure were lucky....

Tuesday, we were scheduled to fly out of Portland Jetport

at 6:50AM. We tried to print our boarding passes the night before,

but Delta kept saying there was "turbulence" in the air and

to try again later.....Well, we found out later, that the "turbulence"

was they couldn't get a plane into the jetport.

Early the next morning, after 2 delays, we flew from PWM into Atlanta, missing our connection to Orlando.

We were so fortunate that Delta was able to get us on another

flight later in the day.
We had a 7 hour wait, but that was fine with us, because we eventually

had a seat, arriving in Orlando about 8PM.

This was just the B concourse, there were hundreds and

hundreds of stranded, unhappy passengers milling around,

looking for a flight home.

Storm storm brewing....

When we left Raymond to head for Gorham, the weather

forecast was calling for blizzard conditions

for the next couple of days.

We decided it would be wise if we packed up and headed

to Portland area for the night, instead of coming back to Raymond.

Turned out, it was a smart move on our part.

After gathering with Rick and Brenda and Family,

we drove to stay with our good friends, Jim and Pat.

They graciously took us in out of the cold for the night

and put us up.

Jim cleaning off his windshield.
This is why Guy loves living in Florida for the winters...
Scraping and shoveling are not his favorite things to do..
The next day he went out with Jim and his snowplow
and "helped" him for the afternoon, while Pat and
I sat by the cozy fire, chatted, read and napped.

Meg and Mike stopped by to say their good-byes and
the Thomson's invited them to join us for dinner.

We had a delicious pot roast with all the trimmings...

Comfort food for sure....

Christmas with the Linscott's & Peluso's

Day after Christmas, we went to Rick's house to celebrate

Christmas with Guy's kids and Family.Meeting of the minds...Deb, Hannah, Brenda and myself.
Aleina was too exhausted to join us, so she and Ling Ling
took a little snooze.

Harry and Ling Ling watching Rick watch the football game...

Brenda, Aleina, Hannah and Deb

3 Generations....Spencer, Rick and Guy

Rick actually isn't wearing an angel hat...

it's the tree topper in the background...
Sorry, Pat and Sam already had left when

we decided to take family pictures....

Happy Birthday Nichole and Merry Christmas too

26 years ago, we received the greatest gift of all..

Nichole Marie Cousins was born...

Today we celebrate her Birthday.....

3 Generation Picture...

Meg, Andrew, Julie and Nichole

Looks like Santa found us.....

Santa????

He's not sure what to make of all this....

Looks like Santa didn't forget Dewey either....

Oh no, a clone!

Dewey and Lewy

Craig must have been good this year, look

at that big bag he's opening:)

Julie's Christmas wish...

a Snowman quilt.....

You'll have to ask "Santa" about his

Sock Christmas...

Time for Christmas dinner.

Paige (Craig's Daughter) has found a friend....

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve..

Craig fixed a wonderful dinner...

The main dish was Lobster Newburg and it was

mouth-watering delicious!

My Family was all together...

Andrew came from Boston...

Meghan home from school in Conn.

and Nichole andEmily drove over from SoPo...

(along with Dewey, of course).

All is calm...

All is bright...

Visiting with my Diva Girlfriends

Thursday, Rita hosted a luncheon for the "3 Blanketeers".

She made a yummy Pork Pie, which I haven't had for years and

Charlene brought a sampler Cheesecake to die for...

Rita and Charlene

We chatted, giggled and had a great time planning

our "Diva Week" in Florida in February.

It can't come fast enough for us...

Oh, and Mr. Jiggs attended also!

Holiday Decorations in Raymond

We stayed with Julie & Craig in Raymond.

She did an amazing job decorating the house..

it felt like we were in a Christmas wonderland.

I wanted to come this year because for the past couple of years,

I missed Friends and Family and never really experienced the

Christmas Spirit.

This year I did!