Happy 2013!

Did everyone have a great New Years?  We did.  Here is a little of what we've been up to the past few days:

Ellis has learned how to "sing" into the microphone that was part of the piano they got for Christmas.



For New Years Eve, we spent the evening with Kelly and her family and friends.  It was great seeing her while she was home from Vegas for the week.  The night started out with an awesome Prime Rib dinner with green beans, basked potato, and salad.

Dessert was your choice of the biggest ice cream bar (dipped in chocolate and nuts) ever or a cream puff.  I opted for the cream puff.  It was heavenly!

After lots of good eating, we thought we should head down to play some Xbox Kinect and work off some of our food!  The guys started off with some golf, but then we played some of the other games, like river rafting, some sort of "fill the holes before it fills up with water" game, and some obstacle course thing where you had to duck and jump over things.  It was hilarious!  With a few beerita's in my system it was hard to stop laughing at times!

Kelly and her dad in the river raft

Kelly and Chris in the obstacle course

Kelly and I making sure our tank doesn't fill up with water.  

Wow, we look really serious..

Of course around midnight we stopped to watch the ball drop, enjoy some champagne, and take a few pictures before leaving for the night.

A huge thank you to Nicole and Mark for watching the boys for the night.  They had an awesome time and were good little boys, well, except for the sleeping thing.  Unfortunately when Troy and I got back there around 1am, we were barely asleep before Logan started crying.  It wasn't just the "where am I?" cry, this was a bit worse.  After a while of trying to quiet him, I realized he might be getting his 2 year molars a little early.  He kept sticking his hand in his mouth and pulling at his ear.  We got him quiet, but he ended up sleeping with us, which meant very little sleep on a night we were already out late!  Last night he woke up again with the same scream at about 10pm and was completely pissed when I gave him some orajel and tylenol, but once it kicked in, he was good to go and they both slept in until 8am!  This momma was very happy about that!

While we were out, Bella had her first experience in the Petsmart Hotel.  Troy got her a hotel suite for the night and she got to hang out with the other dogs at Doggie day camp during the day.  She even got a little "Pawgress Report" when we picked her up.

Looks like she even partied it up on NYE!

That's our past few days.  Now it's time to look ahead into 2013.  Anyone with any New Year's Resolutions?  I don't have any, but I have decided to do some monthly challenges.  I know it is a little unrealistic to say "eat better" or "exercise more" or "spend less", etc.  By week 2, you ask yourself, what resolution?  Oh well, no one keeps them.  So, I thought I would challenge myself to do (or not do) something for a whole month.  I figure with an end in sight, it might make it a little easier to do.  Then I can change it up and try something else.  Stay tuned to January's monthly challenge.