Skip the millennium. Here here are 10 fun things for the new year!
[Edited to add: Totally editing this post in the AM for typos and general alcohol-induced confusion!]
#1 Corn chips. So so good. And I ate way too many. They went so well with #2
#2 BEER!!!
Drank too much of the good stuff. Had some OMB Mule Bock
Bottle #26!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#3 Moose Drool Clone
#4 The Simpsons!!! Evening entertainment game and the best show ever [Besides Gossip Girl!]
Tiebreaker in the game? “Who has the hairiest legs”.
#5: Matt legs won.
I realized that tonight was the first time I drank a whole bottle of one of Matt’s homebrews myself (I usually just have tastes when he pours them). Not sure that was such a good idea!
I was sooooo ancy tonight that I just wanted to drink beer and eat chips for entertainment
Some pumpkin ale.
#6: We moved to the kitchen around 8-something to prepare dinner
#7: The entree was grass-fed beef from U.S. Wellness Meats. I’ve been saving them for a special occasion, and tonight was perfect. We actually split 2 filet mignon’s in half so each couple got one – ’twas the perfect portion. Thawing the frozen filets in their package and cooking them was very easy.
#8: Butternut squash risotto. Amanda used a MyRecipes.com recipe.
We partied in the kitchen
And dinner was served…
The meat was perfectly rarely cooked by Matt and just how I love it. It was so nice to know it came from a good source.
Kale, steamed in white wine, maple syrup and olive oil with salt and pepper until it turned bright green.
Amazing butternut squash risotto – amazing. Classic with wine, garlic, nutmeg, parmesan, and chicken broth.
I had a lot more wine with dinner!!!!!
#9: Dessert was just delicious dark chocolates
I had at least one of each flavor 
Wii was played
And at 11:45 the new year ball drop was put on
#10: Champagne was popped
Ha-ppy New Year!!!
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Happy New Year Kath!!!
I wonder what 2010 has in store for you both!!!!! Happy New Year!!
How fun!
All of the eats you had today looked amazing, but I do not think that I could eat that raw of meat!! I am a person that wants my meat “well- dead” I dont like to see the blood at all!! Also, does the Inn you are staying at allow you to use their kitchen or is there a kitchen in your room??
We are allowed to use the big kitchen at the inn.
I had lotsa chocolate tonight too
My pops just got corn chips from TJ’s that I’ll probably have one too many of in our long car ride to Florida!! Too bad there won’t be beer to pair it up with since I’ll be doing a leg of driving 
What a Fun new years!!! Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year, Kath!! I wish you the very best for the new year!
Happy New Year!
And yes, The Simpsons is one of the best shows ever! Love it! I need to get that “Scene It” game!
Happy New Year, Kath and Matt!!
Jenn
Happy New Year!! Love your blog and can’t wait to see all the fun stuff you’ll do in 2010
That dinner looked great. Happy New Year.
i am completely amazed at your ability to put together a coherent post after all that
looks like a super fun night!!
Great new year!!
You had a wonderful celebration
Happy New Year! Haha, and it’s okay to have one of each flavor as a farewell to 2009… 
And same to you! Sounds like you had a great time seeing off 2009. Hope you aren’t feeling it too much this morning!
HAPPY 2010!! (I’m trying to get used of saying this…so strange!
) Looks like a great celebration! 
Can’t wait to see what the new year (and the new decade!) holds!
sounds like a fun new year!!!
Happpy 2010 everyone!
(yikes..Fox network?! To each their own
Thanks for posting your NYE post already-impressive!!
Looks like y’all had a low-key evening, just like me and my hub! Happy New Year!!!
Oh my gosh – I totally feel you on those corn chips! I love, love, love them but they’re SO addicting!!
Glad you had a good new years eve!! HAPPY 2010!!
Bonne année! The beef looks delicious. I have recently been trying to limit my meat & seafood consumption and, on the few occasions when I do eat them, I splurge on more ethically produced stuff. It’s shocking how great a difference it makes! And a little scary…
I used to eat smoked salmon all the time (cheap, grocery store brand stuff). I quit buying it, and recently had a very good quality smoked salmon on Christmas Eve this year. To compare the latter to the former, would be like matching salty pink playdough against…well, real fish.
HAPPY NEW YEARS
sounds like you brought in the new year with a bang!
Haha to editing for alcohol-induced confusion! Happy New Year Kath and Matt!!
Happy New Year Kath and friends! I hope it’s a good one!
Happy new year!!!
Hehe, I read the pre-edited post and did laugh a bit at the booze to boo-boos ratio
You missed one though, ancy = antsy. Happy New Year!
Your dinner looked amazing! Happy New Year!! Nothing beats drunken posts
P.S. You can never go wrong with beer and chocolate
Happy New Year! Looks as if you had a wonderful time celebrating.
What a fun and low-key New Year’s. Happy 2010!
It looks like you had fun (& got your drank on
) Happy New Years!
Happy new year!! Looks like you had lots of fun
That risotto looks delicious!!! Happy 2010 Kath!
Looks like you had a great time! Happy New Year!
fox news, does this mean ur a republican?
What a fun night! I’d love to try some of Matt’s home brews sometime; they look fantastic! Hope you guys have a wonderful morning and a great first day of 2010!
Hairest legs tie-breaker… how funny!!
Marla + Maria,
No reason other than we couldn’t find Time’s Square on any other channel!
Looks like yummy food although I like my cow a little more dead.
Glad you edited the post. My mind goes nuts with typos.
Awesome New Year’s Eve celebration! Dinner and drinks all sound fabulous! Glad y’all had a nice time
Happy New Year Kath!
What fun and yummy looking stuff! Your meal looks amazing!! Happy New Year, Kath!
Wow, what a great looking meal. Your evening looks super fun.
You should try the Pecan Pie flavor of those Ghirardelli squares. They’re sooooo good, like to die for!
Oh, Happy New Year! That is too funny, you had to edit this from last night. I hope you have a great day and a safe trip home!
looks like a great time! i need to get that simpsons game – my husband actually worked on the movie and the video game so he should be a pro at it!
Happy New Year Kath! Looks like you had a fun night and great food!
What a fun night! they look fantastic! Hope you guys have a wonderful morning and a great first day of 2010!
Happy new year !
hg415
I absolutely LOVE BHI, but have spent very little time there, since I’m always out on the beach or in a golf cart…ha! (no cars allowed on the island)
Nice to see someone else enjoying that beautiful place! I’m sure I’d use the kitchen much more if I vacayed there at New Yr’s instead of in the summer!
It all looks delish, by the way!