Wednesday, January 3, 2018

New Year's Weekend

After a lot of busy weekends in December and a lot of hustle & bustle, I felt like we finally had a weekend with not a lot of plans.  I also ended up with a bad cold (I swear our family has been sick since Halloween and we just keep passing it back and forth between each other) which I guess was "good" timing since we didn't have anything urgent that we had to do.  You know I'm not feeling well when I skipped a free barre3 class on New Year's Day to sleep in!  Lucy was shocked to walk into our bedroom on January 1 at 8:15 AM to find Todd & I still in bed.

So what did we do over our long holiday weekend?

Well, it snowed Friday night into Saturday morning so we went outside to try to build a snowman on Saturday morning (which was a fail because it wasn't good packing snow), Lucy had a birthday party at Get Air (an indoor trampoline park), and my sister-in-law, brother-in-law, niece, and nephew were in town for the OSU basketball game so we celebrated a belated Christmas with them since they were sick when we were up visiting Todd's family last weekend.

On Sunday (New Year's Eve), we went out to run some errands (Target, Kroger, hardware store, etc.) and my parent's brought lunch over and played with the girls and their new Christmas toys for a little bit.  While they were here, Todd & I took that time to take down our Christmas tree and all of the decorations.  It's amazing how much space everything takes up--I feel like our family room is so much bigger now!  We celebrated New Year's Eve in our typical fashion, we made fondue & homemade pretzels, ordered sushi & crab rangoon takeout, and I attempted to make copycat Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies.  Even though they weren't as thick as they were supposed to be and flattened out quite a bit, they were still really good.  I need to work on perfecting that recipe.

I woke up on New Year's Day feeling worse than I did earlier that weekend (although part of that could've been from staying up until midnight on New Year's Eve) and had to teach a Spinning class in the late morning.  The rest of our holiday was spent hanging out at home (it's been really cold outside!) and cooking a yummy New Year's Day dinner.

Lucy couldn't wait to get outside and play in the snow

Cece wasn't really sure what to think about it

Couldn't make a snowman but she did make a bunch of snow angels

Kids at Natalie's birthday party

Jumping off the trampoline into a giant block foam pit

On the balance board

The kids all got superhero masks in their goody bags

Family pic

Cece tearing into a present

Lucy opening one of her presents

Cece was very fascinated by our nephew's presents

Todd got a cool patent picture to hang up in his basement brewery

She loved his nerf gun

Uncle Brian helping Cece open a present

She LOVED her new chair

Showing Uncle Brian her sippy cup holder in the chair

I got this cute new bag from Target

Taking it easy on Sunday afternoon (Lucy was wearing her Elsa costume most of the day)

These homemade pretzels are part of our NYE tradition

Artichoke cheese fondue, pretzels, crab rangoon, sushi, and wine

Cheers!

These cookies are massive (the whole batch only makes 8 giant cookies) but they're supposed to be thicker and more dense

Lucy playing with her new play doh kit on Monday 

We made a brown sugar glazed ham (pictured below), brussel sprouts, cheesy potatoes, and cornbread for New Year's Day dinner

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