New Year's Eve

Well, I am taking a look back at what we have been up to the last few weeks...it has been busy.

Christmas was a blur, but Aunt Leone came to visit and spent quite a bit of quality time with both Matthew and with Alexandra.

We had a fun Christmas with Matt getting an art station to do chalk, white board markers and put up some paper to color, plus the whiteboard is magnetic so Matt can play with all sorts of magnetic animals that he got from Aunt Paige. Alexandra got some legos which of course Matt is all to happy to play with currently. We also got an ipod touch so when we travel it fits a bit better into the diaper bag and in the future when we need to two devices will do for Alexandra to have one while Matt has the other.

Following Christmas, we didn't do much but hang out with Aunt Leone and then of course the Baptism for Alexandra occurred on Saturday so we have more friends arrive with the Hutchinson's...that was lots of fun as it snowed and we got to enjoy the snow with Hanna and Bren. The snowmen they made in our back yard almost melted but with today's snow (Dec 31st) are probably going to stick around a bit longer now.

The baptism was great. Father Chris did a special occasion service for us as we had folks needed to leave on Sunday. In addition, my godmother, or Nannie as we call it back in Louisiana was there along with my Uncle Stan, and Jay's cousin Jeannie, her husband Eric and his cousin Christopher came and helped to entertain Matthew during the ceremony and take pictures for us.

Now for New Year's eve, I have a bottle of wine opened from Aunt Leone's trip for tonight and LSU is suppose to start their game around 630pm so it should keep us entertained for a bit. Probably won't make it to Midnight but will probably be up shortly after to feed Alexandra.

As we start 2013, Matthew is 22 months old, ~25 lbs and wearing 18months size clothes...some 24 month PJs but should soon be completely in 24 months stuff....
Alexandra is 2 months, ~11lbs and 24 inches. I am this week basically getting rid of her newborn and 0-3 months stuff....it is going to go the Once Upon a Child store along with my maternity clothes so hopefully I can get some money to spend on Alexandra's new wardobe as we are finding with this cold weather and her inability to keep socks on, it is nice to have the onesize with footies b/c then I don't have to worry about cold feet.

Well, it is official, my parents are no longer living in Ville Platte. It is strange to think of them as Las Vegas people and no longer Ville Plattians....but at least Vegas will be fun to visit and in fact this yoga conference I want and really need to attend to get this 4 day training done is going to be there in April so gotta make arrangements to get there so the free babysitting is available and maybe get a few extra days to enjoy the weather before it gets too hot.

Happy New year to all of you that read this...can't believe it is 2013! We don't have any huge plans ahead of us as we are not planning to move as I am not hoping to get to know St Louis a bit better before we buy a house here and just because we have moved so much over the last 3 years, I really want to stay put for a while...So feel free to visit, we hope to continue to enjoy the kid friendly activities here in St Louis and I am hopeful that maybe come Feb when I get both kids in daycare, I can get serious about getting my butt back into running shape for a half marathon or something fun.

More to come but until then, Have a wonderful New Year Celebration and GEAUX TIGERS!