Other Christmas Break Activities and New Years

Monday we enjoyed some relaxing at home, playing with new toys, and took Calin to the park because he really wanted to go and do some more sliding.  This is at the elementary school by our house and it has a couple of good slides that Calin can climb up to and go down all by himself.  He was loving being able to do it all on his own!  None of us were feeling especially well now that the sickness had hit us all in the family, but it was nice to get outside and get some fresh air!

Calin was in heaven going down slide after slide after slide.  He also enjoyed some more hanging; another new favorite thing to do.  Such a big boy to be doing all these things on his own.  He is growing up way to fast! 

New Year's Eve we had another lazy day at home enjoying one more day of Christmas decorations, Christmas songs (I told Robby he could go through New Years),  new toys, and resting, trying to get us all feeling better.  That night we went over to Ami's house for a low key New Year's Eve celebration.  Normally Hollie and Jimmy host a big bash, but Preston had also gotten sick so Ami was nice to host this year.  Robby brought his race track along and hosted a New Year's Eve hot wheels race with the family.  

We did not stay too late, but did have a later night than usual.  We had given Calin two naps that day so he was ready to stay up a little later.   We got Calin all ready to go in his pajamas, he stayed to watch a few games that everyone had started playing and then we left about 9:45 to head home to bed.  

We got home just in time to see the city fireworks at 10:00 and then brought Calin in to bed.  Robby and I were both exhausted and not feeling well so we did not make it to midnight.  It was a very exciting New Year's! ;)

New Year's Day I made Robby and Calin help me take the Christmas decorations down.  I knew if I didn't do it then that it wouldn't happen until the weekend or later and although I was not ready to have everything down, I was ready to clean up a little.  We also got the lights down outside too.  It is always nice to get cleaned up and get rid of the clutter that collects and find places to put the new toys away.  However, we still have not found a place for everything because we are still storing things upstairs waiting on the basement to be finished...one day it will be done!

Then that afternoon we met up with our neighbors Alisha and Dylan to go back up to the park again.  Calin and Dylan had lots of fun running around, playing, and doing the slides together.   Calin loves to play with Dylan and gets excited whenever we see them.

After the park we headed over to meet up with all of Robby's family for a birthday dinner for Preston.  His birthday is New Year's Day.  I got this lovely fortune at the restaurant.  We all got really funny fortunes that didn't make sense.  It must have been a batch made by someone who did not speak English...

After dinner we went to Preston's house for cake, ice cream, and presents.  We then headed home to get Robby to bed since he had to go back to work the next day.  :(  Fortunately it was only one day that week though so it was a nice transition back into real life...  

We were very sad to see the break come to an end.  Despite getting sick (more on our sicknesses in another post-I feel it deserves it's own...), it was a wonderful break and a great time to enjoy celebrating and being with family! We were very sad to see Robby go back to work after having him home every day it was hard to see him go back to work.  We love being together as a family and having all that time to spend together!