New Years

We made some pretty big plans for this New Years holiday:  Play with the boys.  Make some food.  Enjoy dessert.  Sleep.  Have a fun breakfast.  Clean up the apartment (okay, that was just mine).  And it's been pretty great.  

While I cooked dinner, the boys were baking too - and playing with Chase's helicopter

Our fancy desserts :)

Sadly our cute little guys both have colds, but that meant they were both exhausted by about six.  They went to bed early!  So Marcus and I spent New Year's Eve with some new friends:

I blame Brian for this new obsession.

Our cable wasn't really working anyway, so the Times Square concerts weren't coming in clearly.  We were able to watch the ball drop, so somehow we made it to midnight.

It still makes me laugh that we are only four to five miles away from the biggest New Years party, but we never go.  If our TV connected better with local stations, I would say we have a better view here.

In the morning, I got the productive bug and cleaned up a little before making our traditional New Years Day breakfast.

Bread Pudding (recipe: the Pioneer Woman)

Ty petting Chicago - she loves her baby boy

Getting ready for naptime :)

And some bossy coloring time

Now here we are, eleven hours into a new year.  So far, so good :)