New Year's Day Brunch 2020

 I was up at 6 AM on Wednesday (1/1) to get ready for our brunch.  First up was clearing away everything out of the kitchen and setting up extra chairs and tray tables.  Then the oven got turned on and baking commenced.  We decided that the cinnamon rolls didn’t need to be served piping hot (especially since they get an icing at the end), so I put those together and into the oven they went:  

Next up were the ham/poppyseed rolls:  

Finally the egg casserole and killer pecan sticky buns went in so that they came out right at 10 AM when people arrived:  

I layered all of Michael's sauteed veggies in the bottom, then added ham

added a generous helping of shredded cheese

beat up 20 eggs with seasonings and poured them over.....yum!!!

here are the sticky buns, flipped out into a pan

While the eggs and sticky buns were baking, I cut up fruit for a salad:

Michael ran out to get a box-o-joe from Dunkin Donuts and got our drinks stations set up:

champagne

mulled cider

coffee

We got everything set out in time:

and the guests started to arrive.  Some people brought additional food:

and the party got into high gear:

Ann Mary & Gale

Pat & Paula

Connie

Ginny & Sally

Pam & Connie

Ken

George

John

Larry & Joanne

Ed, Dave & Marge

Phil

Phil & Ken

Pete (in front), Larry & my honey

Larrym Kay, Evelyn

Bill

Gerry & Ralph

Larry, jim, Dennis

Deanna

Doug, John, Ken

Dennis & Sue

Joann

Joe

Larry & Evelyn

Ed & Candyce

I think it was a great party and everyone seemed to have a really good time!  We both collapsed for a bit after everyone left, but eventually ot our second (or maybe third) winds.  After running the dishwasher 3 times....all of the party dishes were done!

We just basically relaxed the rest of the day....it was a wonderful start to 2020.