Life has been very busy lately, so I have not had much time to participate in the recent ActiveRain challenges/contests. But this month's challenge hosted by Anna Banana Kruchten and Carol Williams brings back some great holiday memories, so I am carving out time to participate in their challenge "Holiday Fun and Cheer December Challenge".
Below is a blog I posted in 2016 about my favorite Souto Family tradition, our New Year's Day Dinner, which we always celebrate with a lobster dinner. I picked this one because it was the second year we started to have the lobster dinner with a jumbo lobster. Also this year was very special because it was the last year we were able to celebrate it with my oldest son and my only granddaughter, the gorgeous Elizabeth. Shortly after this dinner my oldest son moved to South Carolina, and later Seattle, and has not been back to Connecticut for the traditional Souto Family New Year's Day Lobster Dinner. Hope you enjoy the blog, and this special holiday memory for me.
2016 New Year Dinner At The Souto House. My family had our New Year's Day traditional Dinner yesterday, and once again it was worth the wait. Every New Year's Day we get together as a family, and we celebrate the coming of the New Year with a special New Year's Dinner, which the main course is always lobster. The past few years it had been stuffed lobster tails, twice baked potatoes, and a glass of white wine from my favorite Connecticut winery, Gouveia Winery and Vineyard.
Last year we changed it up a bit, and instead of lobster tails we tried jumbo 6 plus pound baked stuffed lobsters. Each couple shared one of the huge lobsters I am holding in the picture above. A 6lb lobster sounds like a lot but you 
have to keep in mind that about half of the lobster is the lobsters upper body we do not eat. However, we do enjoy the huge lobster tails and huge claws.
These lobsters were so big we were only able to only fit a claw along with a twice baked potato, and stuffing on each plate to begin with, and then each couple split the remaining lobster 
tail from each of their lobsters.
The lobsters were delicious, tender and sweet. This is the type of meal you walk away from the table needing to unbuckle your belt.
Last year was my granddaughter Elizabeth's first year as part of our Souto Family New Year's Dinner tradition, and being only 5 1/2 months she did not get to participate much in our New Year's traditional meal. But this year she was ready to dig into her own food since she has not acquired a taste for lobster yet. As you can see from the pictures below Elizabeth wasted no time in fully participating in her meal with both hands.
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As much as I enjoy the huge stuffed lobsters, it is the time we spend as a family and the memories we are creating that make this day, and dinner truly special. The family has grown since our first New Year's Dinner, and so have the number of lobsters. Last year we grew by one, and we are anticipating our table growing by more in coming years. I hope someday the number of lobsters at our table will be twice as many as we had this year. I might have to write more loans if that happens, but it is an expense I very much look forward to.
My hope and wish this year is the same as it is every year. I hope all of you enjoyed your 2016 New Year's Day Dinner as much as I enjoyed mine, and hope 2016 is a year that both our businesses and our families grow and prosper together.
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