Christmas on New Years!

Happy 2015!  We celebrated the Abbas Christmas on New Years Day and we hosted it this year!  Yikes!  It was a bit of prep work for me on New Years Eve, but we all had a good time and I think everything went pretty smoothly.  We did an Italian theme for the food, since everyone had already had their share of the holiday hams.  :)  I made homemade Italian meatball sliders using this recipe from The Pioneer Woman and they were super simple and delicious!  After the meatballs were done on the stove, I transferred them to a crockpot on low/warm until lunch was served.  Worked out perfectly!  I also made THREE pans of baked ziti.  We only ended up eating about one and 1/3 pans.  Lots of leftovers!  :)

I also made a new cake - Earthquake Cake - using this recipe.   My cake picture is below.  It was pretty good, but I was hoping it was going to knock the socks off of everyone.  It didn't really have that effect, but it was certainly tasty.  :)

There were lots of gifts to be opened by the little ones (Ella and Harrison)!

It was a fun day!