And there she is. The last picture of this project! I went to Party City in hopes of finding those 2010 glasses so we could have a fun picture, but they didn't have any. boooo. Oh well. This picture was taken exactly at midnight - or maybe 11:59. We aren't much a pair that gets into the New Year revelry, so we went to dinner and watched (500) Days of Summer (which was awesome). Happy New Year! 2009 recap coming up...
Coop and Mom in their Christmas outfits! We had a pretty low key christmas this year actually. Instead of driving all over the state making it to every Christmas celebration, we took our time getting ready on Christmas morning, and then made our way back to Madison and celebrated with Jon's family. It was niiiice.
Christmas Eve is always celebrated at my parents' house with the whole family on my mom's side. I really wish I had a better Christmas-y picture, but I guess I was just having too much fun partying and didn't really take many good pics.
We changed things up this year and played a little family trivia game that my cousin, aunt and sister put together. (That's what this picture is all about) It was so fun and we all had a lot of laughs reminiscing.
Last Tuesday we had our work Christmas pot luck and white elephant exchange. I was asked to take a pic of the whole group, which is how I got this shot. Otherwise it might have been a little weird for me to bust out a camera at a work luncheon, wouldn't it? I'll answer that - yes, it would be. Anyway, I am not a huge fan of pot lucks - something about a bunch of crock pots and food from a bunch of different places kind of grosses me out.
I had a request from a reader (Meghan. again. Geez, get your own blog, lady) to post a pic of our tree. So here she is! It might be a little anti-climactic, sorry. It is a little sparse this year.
We were setting up to take some family pictures, so I had Gina sit down so I could compose the shot. Obvi these were tests, so she wasn't expected to smile or anything. The result though, had us in histerics. Does this not look like one of those old photos that you dig up of your grandma?? You know, those black and white ones from like the early 1900s where no one is smiling? It even looked that way before I put this vintage action on it, but now it totally does!
We had so much fun on our little trip up to Green Bay. Cooper quite possibly might be the funniest person I know right now. He is constantly saying and doing things that are so hilarious. Even though he says very few words, he still was just cracking us all up all weekend. Mostly, I found it funny when he would try and imitate us. He has been wanting to do things the adults do for a long time - i.e. eating with real silverware, not eating food cut up in small pieces, etc. but now he tries to do the same thing we do too. For example, I was laying on the floor on my side, propping my head up with my hand and he layed down next to me and tried to do the same thing. He totally concentrates the whole time figuring out how to position himself too. It's classic! He tries to cough into his arm too, people! He isn't even 2! The waitress at the restaurant we went to for dinner Sat night even laughed at that one.
On Saturday night, we went to a Christmas celebration at Lambeau where they had a bunch of activities for kiddos. Cooper got to met Santa, or "Ho Ho Ho" as he calls him. He loved it and even gave Santa a five 5 when he left.
I put up our Christmas tree last Tuesday, but I'm thinking that is going to be extent of Christmas decorations I'll put up this year. I'm just not really feeling it this year.
Jon's dad carving the turkey on Thanksgiving!
The meal that Jon's mom and dad make is so good. Probably the best I have ever had. I contributed with a vegetable medley casserole. We needed a little something to warm our bellies while we were watching the Packer game before the big meal also though, so I made some Tastefully Simple artichoke dip as an appetizer too...which is always a huge hit.
After our 1:00 "dinner" at Jon's fam, we headed to Milwaukee for round 2. This is not new. We always make it to both Thanksgivings, but this year I really over did it at round 1 and was so full when we got to my aunt's. Oh well...seeing the fam was more important than the meal anyway.
This is how we like to spend the 4th of July. By torturing adorable little babies :) Juuuust kidding.
The 4th was pretty uneventful for us. We had a lot of plans, but none of them really happened. Instead of heading out to the parade, going down to the Northpoint snack bar, and seeing Huey Lewis at Summerfest - we had an all american McDonald's lunch, put together a little impromptu bbq dinner, went to a nearby parking lot to watch the State Fair fireworks and ended the day by watching the American classic, Knocked Up.
Happy Bday, America!!!
For Mother's day, I met my mom and dad in Johnson Creek for brunch and some shopping. I told my mom I'd get her something and she decided she wanted a summer purse. We found this cute one at the new Coach outlet for a steal! Yay! It was fun.
Happy Mother's Day!
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