Holiday Happenings!

Phew!  The holidays are over, and I felt like they just flew.  Something about being a kid, and your paper chain seems to grow, then you're an adult and you are running around at 9 o'clock on December 23rd trying to finish your shopping.  There is such a workup to the holidays with Christmas music way sooner then necessary and stores opening before we even had our Thanksgiving dessert.  Then the 26th comes, and its over!  I wish the excitement lasted a bit longer.  So until next year, here are a few of our favorite moments from our first Christmas as 4!

Decorating the tree -- Kenzie was a really great helper this year, while I just dressed up Cam!

Visits with 2/3rds of my college roomies and Cam's pal Owen!!

And other random holiday type pictures I love!

We took Cam and Kenz to see the Nutcracker.  She got a bit bored throughout, but it was also naptime!  Clearly, Cam had no problem taking a snooze.

Our "Annual" trip to NYC happened this year when I thought for sure we were going to skip out in 2013.  We've been to New York, New York the past 5 or so years, and as much as I enjoy going, the crowds and cold, along with TWO babies this time, was enough to have me say forget it - lets go in the spring.  But when I was given the option to travel to Long Island for work, I figured what a perfect time to travel and get most of it paid for!  So we hoped in the car and in 6 hours, no NINE, we arrived in our Times Square hotel!  


We took a walk to Don's favorite restaurnt in NYC - Ellen's Stardust Diner.  Kenzie was loving the singing and theatrics, and Cam wanted his Dad's brew!  What little minis we have!

Then off for a walk to the tree!

Day 2 consisted of a lot of walking, partly because Don got us lost.  He's lucky he was carrying the 20lb babe on his chest!  We visited Central Park, FAO Schwarz, and pizza before heading to LI for the night!

 

Kenz was so excited to swim and Cam got to go in a pool for the first time.  He was thrilled and by thrilled I mean chilled.  This kid is so low-key!!

 And finally, as we were arriving home from some Christmas shopping, a firetruck was announcing the arrival of Santa.  And not only Santa, but Smokey the Bear, Rudolph, and chipmunk wearing fireproof pants, and a very jolly elf!  I love this kind of stuff!