New Years 2017!

It's going to be a while until I remember to write 2017 instead of 2016. I actually just got used to 2016. Is it this normal for a maternity leave to throw things off this severely? I swear at work the other day I was convinced 2015 was last year. A baby makes time go by so much quicker!

Aleksy was on a mission this break to get out sledding. The thing is, we really didn't get THAT much snow. But there was just enough getting closer to New Years Eve that Aleksy went over to his parents to pick up his old childhood sled (I'm pretty sure that I also had one of the babies in my childhood). It still had the garage sale sticker on it. We are very thankful for all the cheapskates in Lambeth that wouldn't pay $3 for this gem!! Or as it may also be (and probably is the case), the Lambethians that were too cool for it...

On New Years eve in the morning, we headed to a public school nearby that has some hills... but nothing crazy so the 1 year old wasn't scared off.

It was definitely a hit. Logan went down with each of us then we all went down together. Logan loved it!The more speed the better.

After sledding, we headed home for Mr. goober to have a nap then head over to Al & Stephs for an early new years party at 3pm!

The party was in full swing at the Osbornes. Crafts included. Logan loved making this. In case it isn't obvious (which it should be) these are fireworks. Logan made these by using a toilet paper tube cut into little pieces on one end and dipped into paint. He was fully responsible for the masterpiece you see here.

After the fireworks painting, Steph had also arranged for the kids to make shakers - noise makers - with it being new years and all. The picture below is the boys putting together their shakers with dried pasta (which I had to stop Logan from eating repeatedly), beads (which I also had to stop Logan from eating), and pennies since they're pretty much not money anymore.

There was also some serious foodage happening 

Logan has the best time playing in Coltons room. Especially the bed jumping. Aleksy made a fort here which the kiddos climbed under. Logan's friends looking all playful and goofy and Logan looking all nudey and modelly.

We did a countdown to new years at about 8/830pm. Compte with new years crowns/hats nise makers, and the shakers that the kids made!

Logans new year - ready for some sleep in his jammies.

The adults toasted to the new year with champagne after the countdown. Logan loved watching his friends go crazy making noise and shaking their shakers.

We left shortly after this to head home to get the goober monster to sleep in his bed. Sometimes... its just easier to get home and stick to the (sowewhat) routine so his next 3 days aren't thrown off!

A present exchange also happened on New Years since we hadn't see  everyone since before Christmas. This is what we got... and I'm super excited about!! The jar is full of ingredients for chocolate chip cookies then when the ingredients are emptied, the jar is kept for keeping memories from 2017! That's what the little pieces of paper in front are for.

We got home and goober to bed about 8:45pm the spent the rest of the night having champagne and watching the Times Square new years including the Mariah Carey hot mess! We went to bed at approximately 12:02am. The extra minute was to brush our teeth.

But hey there's perks to not staying out late drinking: New years morning we were up right and early and I made it first thing at 10am for my Sunday morning TRX class! The gym was pretty empty but there were still a few like me who started the new year with an early morning workout!

And New years day we went to Aleksy's parents for some delicious stew for supper. This was because we were dropping off the goober for an overnight because we both worked on Monday Jan 2nd even though our daycare and every other place was closed! So we needed childcare and it just so happened that Aleksy's parents didn't have to work on the Monday like us suckers! (although we did get the whole week off prior to this..).

And why are my skates pictured? Well because after we dropped goober off and had some supper, we took advantage of the baby free time and squeezed in a date of skating a Victoria park on New Years day! It was friggin packed. But we had extra patience because there was no baby with us. I hadn't been skating since 2014 - not when I was pregnant and not whe I had a new baby last year... it went ok. I can go in counter clockwise circles adequately. We actually had a really good time skating! I got a lot of fitbit steps for it too.