New Year's Eve 2021

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I can't believe we are already into 2022. I am thankful for a new year and a fresh start as 2021 was pretty rough. We went through some hard times in 2021 and hopeful that they are all behind us now.

I thought I would recap our pretty low-key New Year's Eve.

The day was pretty easy and chill. Rory and I had the day off, though he did a bit of work as someone needed a pre-approval to purchase a house. 

We ran a few errands, watched some football and lazed around the house most of the day. But we all showered, got ready, so we could take some photos and eat our fancy (that's what the girls called it) dinner. I wore my comfy sequin joggers that I posted here.

I made king crab legs, roasted carrots and twice baked potatoes with some crusty bread. Everything turned out really good and the girls ate a ton of crab. They loved the crab with butter drizzled all over it.

That is about 2 1/2 pounds.

I had way more crab than the three legs (one already cracked) of crab.

After dinner, the girls had some mint chip ice cream and some sparkling cider. Rory and I had a rose prosecco and some chocolate. 

After cleaning up, we got ready for the girls New Year's celebration. I had picked up some poppers, glasses, horns and sparkling cider from CVS and the dollar store. Nothing too crazy, but I wanted the girls to have a little something. We also broke out our sparklers from our wedding and lit those.

I wore my new Ugg slippers, my cozy A&F shirt that I can't stop wearing and my cozy sequin joggers.

I didn't capture photos when we were outside celebrating with the girls as it was dark, but I got a bunch of videos that I posted to my IG.

The girls went to bed at 9 pm. After they were in bed and asleep, we watched two episodes of Goliath, drank more prosecco and waited for midnight. Close to midnight we turned on the Nashville New Year's Eve show (which is so much better than the one with Ryan Seacrest), rang in the new year with a kiss from Rory and one from Walter. 

Walter had a hard time with all the fireworks that were going off, so we had to give him an anxiety pill and calm him down. We finally went to sleep at 1 am.

And just like that, we are into 2022! Cheers to a great year ahead!

Twins Birthday and NYE Recap

I can't believe the holidays are over. It is a bit of a let down with taking all the Christmas stuff down and moving on. But I was so ready for a new year, so I am embracing it. And yes, all of my Christmas stuff was down prior to New Year's except my two trees. Those came down 2 days after New Year's.

The girls birthday was on a Tuesday this year, but that doesn't mean that we didn't celebrate with them. They sooo wanted to have a party, but with all of our closures, lockdowns and the state of the world, the girls are going to have to wait til their next birthday. But we still made the most of it.

Don't worry, there was more decorations around the house.

We took the girls to their favorite breakfast spot. Well the runner up as their favorite was closed on Monday and Tuesdays. And they wore their new J Crew dresses and sparkly velvet leggings. Oh and the Frozen 2 sequin jackets they got for Christmas!

After breakfast, we headed home for a bit so we could get some work done and the girls watched some shows. Plus the girls opened up their gifts from us.

Then we headed to a local trampoline park to jump for two hours. They have the best set up right now. You make reservations online for your jump time and only people 10 years and older wear a mask. Plus they have you sanitize your hands every 15 to 30 minutes. There were people there, but you are so spread out and they only let so many jump at a time, so it was perfect.

After two hours of jumping, we were all tired. We headed to Adidas to exchange the girls new shoes for a size bigger for Sutton. Avery took Sutton's size and we got Sutton a new one.

Then we headed home to work more while the girls played with their new toys.

That evening my in-laws came over and we had pizza (the girls choice and from their favorite place) and then had cake. My girls love cupcakes and pie, but are not huge cake fans, so I got them an ice cream cake. Look at how cute it is. The only problem was it said to sit out for 10 minutes before cutting, but after 30 minutes it was still difficult.

They forgot the Happy Birthday Sutton and Avery candy sign. Ugh.

After cake and pizza, the girls opened gifts from my in-laws and then they played with them for awhile. The girls then went to bed as they were headed to my parents house the next day to celebrate their birthday and allow us to work.

Even though it wasn't the birthday that I imagined for them, I think it was still fun for them. Hopefully this year they can have a party!

Onto, New Year's Eve. We made some last minute plans to head into the mountains with some of our friends and kids to celebrate NYE. It was just 8 adults (and some were family) and then 5 kids. It was a lot of fun. We had steak and crab plus sides for dinner, drank champagne, celebrated early with the kids and then again at midnight just the adults. We stayed up there from Thursday to Saturday morning and had the best time. We all were safe and thought this was a better idea than going out. Here is some pictures from the evening!

Yes those are cozy sequins joggers. The best!!!!

And that is how we rang in the New Year! How did you ring in the New Year?

Catching Up

Wow, I haven't posted since Christmas Eve.  But that is because I have been busy with parties, Christmas, family dinners and New Year's Eve.  I love the holidays, and I am really sad they are over.  They went by way too fast.  Be prepared for a long random post.

I just realized I never told you all how my night with Daniel Tosh went.  It was amazing.  I have never laughed so much in my life (ok maybe I have).  His opener was Eddie from his show Tosh.O.  He was really funny and a great opener.  Then came out the man himself, Daniel Tosh.  I have been dying to see his show FOREVER, but never pulled the trigger.  Now I want to go to more of his shows.  He is that funny.  I am going to LA in the near future for work, and I will be requesting tickets to his Tosh.O show well in advance.  Do yourself a favor and go see him.

This is my, I am so pumped to see Tosh face

Fast forward to Christmas Eve and we went to my family friend's house for their annual Christmas Eve party.  It was full of family, friends, good food, holiday drinks, presents and a baby.  I finally got to meet baby Evan.  My flower girls parents (they are our good friends) had a baby boy in November and I have been dying to meet him.  On Christmas Eve, I spent at least an hour holding him.  He was too precious.  I am still waiting on the photos that his grandma took of us.

We had an amazing Christmas Day.  We woke up, built a fire, made coffee, cooked the cinnamon rolls my mom made us (tradition for my family), opened way too many presents (we were spoiled this year) and then headed to Truckee for Christmas dinner at my new (in-laws) aunts house.

This is only half of our gifts

For Christmas dinner, we had a traditional style Thanksgiving dinner, but with a twist.  We had deep fried turkey, stuffing, potatoes, carrot souffle, a salad, rolls and maybe something else.  Plus lots of wine and champagne.  After dinner we played some family games and ate yummy desserts.  It was the perfect ending to our Christmas.

Christmas night

Don't worry, Walter had the best Christmas/Birthday.  Walter turned 2 on Christmas.  We are only guessing his birthday since he was adopted from the Truckee Humane Society.  They estimated his birthday in December towards the end of the month, so we picked Christmas Day.  He was overly spoiled with a new leather collar, two deer antlers, three toys, a bully stick and new treats.

 Tuckered out from his Christmas fun

Stylish puppy

The Saturday after Christmas, Rory and I hosted a late Christmas dinner for our families combined.  This is our third year doing this, and I would say it was a success.  We made drunken king crab legs (with all the fixings/dippings), homemade rolls, roasted butternut squash and salad.  My sister was kind enough to make mini eclairs.  Perfect ending to an amazing meal.

We were very boring on New Year's Eve.  We had every intention on going out, as we have the last 4 years being together, but this year we stayed in.  We did manage to make it out to sushi, only to go home in a sushi coma and relax.  I stayed up for the ball drop and fireworks, but the husband was out cold by 10:30.  

 

I am excited for what 2014 has to bring us as 2013 was pretty good to us.  We got engaged and married in 2013, so hopefully 2014 will bless us with a new baby.

How were your holidays?  What are your New Year's resolutions?