Final Day

Here is the last day of Christmas break. Little man made us breakfast and then we all played out in the yard. It was a great way to end a great break! Next week is all about fashion for 2012.

I hope you all have a great weekend!

A Different Christmas

This Christmas was different than any of the ones in the past. This year we had one little boy (although a big boy if you ask him) who was quite excited about all those gifts under the tree. Not only the gifts but also the Christmas carols, especially "Hark the Harold Angels Sing" and the classic Christmas movies. Every morning we watched either Elf, a video of the Rockettes, or The Nutcracker. It is so fun to see all the things we grew up with through the eyes of a 2.5 year old. Next year there will be two little boys that will be participating! 

Little Man is watching the Nutcracker for the umpteenth time while baby O (while not such a baby anymore) is in the background teething.

 Having what he calls "Little Boy Coffee"

 On their way to see Baby Jesus

 This happened a lot. They're such great buds

 Tucker is getting to old for all this excitement 

 Papa got a new Lionel train for Christmas which was a HUGE hit for all the boys! 

Beach at Christmas?!

Have you ever wondered what you do in Florida in the days right before Christmas? When I was growing up in the Sunny state I always wished for cold Christmases. But now that I live in New York where we get plenty of cold weather it's such a treat to visit my parents house where we play with our Christmas toys in shorts and flip flops! They only live a couple miles from the beach which means we can take spontaneous beach trips...

A couple of days later we decided to go back with the little ones right before dinner

 Dad with his girls

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I cannot believe that two weeks have gone by and we've celebrated Christmas and the end of 2011. The past couple of weeks have been packed with fun events. I'm a bit sad that it all has to come to an end and we have to resume normal life again.  Ben is back at work (I've selfishly loved having him free) and I'm starting the process of revamping Spencer Morgan Designs. Stayed tuned for that news. However, I'm just now going through all the pictures from the past few weeks and they most definitely put a smile on my face.

We had a wonderful New York, New Years Eve spent with friends. It was a progressive dinner type of night beginning a few floors above in our friends apartment. Then we made our way down to our apartment for drinks, dessert, and a little dancing of The Dougie. And 30 minutes before the clock struck midnight, we moved to a bar, named Ward III a couple of blocks away. And about an hour later, now fully into 2012 we called it a night. And a great night it was! I hope you all had a wonderful New Years!

 Sitting down for our nice steak and salmon dinner

 Group shot on the balcony

 Do you think you could tell in a blind taste test which one is Andre and which is Cristal? We sadly could not. Yes, we're ashamed.

 Which one is it?!?! Answer - Andre wins

 Some serious champagne taste testing (they are the only ones that actually picked the nice champagne)

Ben demonstrating some joke between them

 It's 2012!!!