I have been lagging again with posting here, part of the reason being that all four of us have been sick in the last three weeks. It started with Chris, then went to Caleb, then I joined the party. And just as the three of us were on the mend, Hannah went down. So that's my excuse for the month of January but I have no defense for not posting in December - other than it's December and that always seems to be a busy month. But now that I am feeling better it's time to update.
So, here's a quick recap of our happenings.
Christmas. Being that this was the first year since having kids where Chris was not committed to working on Christmas Eve, and we now live closer to family, we went big. Between Christmas eve and dinner on Christmas day we managed to see all three sets of our parents, plus lots of extended family. It was wonderful to spend the time with so much family, some we haven't seen in a while, but I don't think we'll be making a habit of doing that much traveling in a 24-hour period.
The new year started uneventfully, we were all asleep. Hannah is in the middle of basketball season and just made her first basket in a game last week! Caleb, is just being Caleb; eating, talking, running, "fixing" things. He has also developed a habit of randomly screaming, which we are trying to curb.
Our highlight so far of the year was celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary on the 15th with a four day cruise! We haven't not been away from the kids for that long so I was nervous as to how they would do. But thanks to some wonderful, loving grandparents they did great and were completely spoiled. A cruise was the perfect vacation for us in this season of our lives: getting up when we wanted, taking naps, no cooking, cleaning or laundry. All good things. I read an entire book while on our cruise. Amazing.
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| We did a lot of this, sitting on a deck drinking coffee and reading. |
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| On the tender to Catalina Island | |
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| We played mini golf instead of walking around Ensenada |
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| Sunset in Ensenada |
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| Another sunset from our room. We came home so refreshed. |
