We broke up our drive home after Christmas by stopping to see our good friends in Vegas. They heated their pool for their family to enjoy over break and even though it was dark, misty and cold outside, the kids jumped in with no hesitation. No one was mad about…
We stayed in and ordered Thai food on New Year’s Eve so we could watch the big Michigan State playoff game for the national championship. Unfortunately the game didn’t play out so well, but we sure had fun cheering on our Spartans this season. The best part about living on…
We’re only 18 days into 2015 but it already feels so ancient to write about the end of 2014. It was so nice to spend the week between Christmas and New Year’s at the cabin. If we would have been at home, I would have found a thousand things to…
We came home just in time to spend New Year’s Eve with Troy’s family before they were whisked away to Hawaii again. After a long drive home, and an even longer hotel pit stop where Nash decided to crawl on me the majority of the night instead of sleep, I…
Each year, I set expectations for New Year’s Eve to be exciting and set apart from other nights. I always end up disappointed when we inevitably do the same things that we do all the time. We eat, we put the kids to bed, we watch a movie, we stay…
I make the mistake every year of setting high expectations for celebrations on New Years Eve. I’m not really sure why I do that, considering that we don’t celebrate the holiday like most of the rest of the world does, and especially now that we are parents and it would…
