It was easy for Kris and I to go out and celebrate this year for New Year's Eve since we knew the boys would be in good hands with one of their daycare teachers and that they would be playing with their own friends during the night, too.
Before our sitter arrived, our friends, Mika & Mark Galvan and their two boys Aiden & Evin, joined us for dinner. This gave the kids a chance to play together while us parents were still around to witness the chaos and fun. We enjoyed a yummy Thai takeout meal with two babies and two very loud three/four year olds. And by the time Ms. Samantha arrived, they had made their way through dinner, rode the bikes throughout the house, and had a dance party demonstration for us.
We knew it was time to leave when Owen gave me a goodbye hug and said, "something is stinky, mommy it smells like a "kunk". A couple of tries later, he spit it out clearly, "skunk". We all laughed, and I thought, hmmm, so much for putting on perfume!! A few minutes later, we took a group picture, the two older boys bolted upstairs without any concern, and we left for the party smelly and all.
As the evening progressed, we all found that it was so easy to enjoy ourselves and relax because we received frequent texts about the boys through status updates and cute text message pictures from Samantha. If this doesn't justify the cost of the recent smart phone upgrade, I don't know what will.
This one made us all smile.
And this one made me feel reassured and gave me the peace of mind to stay out much later than we originally planned.
(how is it that there are only a few days until my sweet little baby is going to be one)
We had a blast at our New Year's Eve Party. We're grateful for such a great babysitter and we feel quite lucky to have such good friends that indulge us as we share text updates and photos during a special and rare adult-only party. I promise, we didn't talk about our kids all night long, but gosh it was nice to whip out the photo of Owen and Aiden tapping their apple cider classes just before we toasted to the New Year ourselves.
first hubby & wife photo of 2011
Happy New Year!!
