Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, y'all! Hope everyone had a safe and fun time. We spent the day relaxing, enjoying the time off with little Ava. We went out for brunch & then just came back home and played around. Come midnight, I had to wake Don up to toast in the new year with some ginger ale. I know, I know, boring. But I didn't want to bust open a bottle of champs in the last 50 seconds, to only drink a little bit & it go flat. Plus, I just didn't care to do all that mess. So I poured the ginger ale up in our flutes that we used on our wedding day, and got my smooch! We have had an amazing 2013. A year ago today, the purchase for our home was approved. Being that it was a foreclosure, we waited for probably 6 months to hear that. We even backed out before Thanksgiving 2012, and then we were offered something we just couldn't refuse with this house. I was pregnant! We were staying at my mom's b/c we had to move from our rental. We had so much stress going on in our lives, it was almost unbearable. But the joy and excitement pushed through, as we started to feel our little Ava kicking & dancing. We should've known then how much she would grow to love music. This little thing LOVES the guitar, so daddy makes sure to play her music on his guitar all the time. She crawls over to his guitar stand now, pulls herself up, strums and sings. It's one of the most precious things in the world! She's been such a blessing. So anyway, in 2013 we were living at mom's, waiting to close on the house, finally closing on the house 1/31, got settled here, set up the baby room, had a baby, found a nanny, lost the nanny, found another nanny, and we're still figuring out how to be parents. This journey is amazing and I don't believe I would change anything about it. We are so looking forward to the new year, time for some resolutions... or something. I mean, let's be real, now many people say they're going to eat better, exercise, lose weight? Um... pretty much everyone. So be a little more original. For me, the ones I can think of are as follows: - wash my hair more than one time a week - give myself more mani's - give Ava pedicures - i.e., polish her piggies - wear pearls more often (like I had mentioned in a post a couple of years ago. 11/12 - shave my legs more often - do some devotion time. I actually thought of a couple more but forgot... Regardless, mine are a little more original than "exercise, work out, eat right" huh? It's almost the weekend - have a good one! xoxo