January 2008

Our new year began with a blast as we celebrated with dinner at Mike and C's with the kiddos and then rang it in asleep, well actually I woke up at 11:55 and watched the ball drop. My how times have changed!

That week kevin and I headed down to the Keys for our long awaited anniversary trip. Well the Keys were not too happy to see us as we brought record cold temps down with us. But we made the best of it at our beautiful resort, Tranquility Bay, in Marathon. We loved the house, the grounds and the views. It was very relaxing and peaceful, well aside from the howling wind!

We enjoyed lots of great meals and great drinks, especially mojitos and margaritas. We spent saturday down in Key West, one of our favorite places and altho we talked up doing the Duval crawl, we knew someone had to drive back and we can't hang like we used to. But we enjoyed our drinks at our favorite spots: Irish Kevins, Turtle Crawls, Hogs breath, Captain Tony's, and Margaritaville.

Sunday was our only real beaach day, so I soaked up those rays all day long and Kevin was back and forth between the tiki bar which was showing football and the beach reading. Monday was back home to our little men. It was so great to see them. 4 days was the perfect amount of time. We were ready to go home sunday night. I have to say the sleeping in and using the bathroom without interruption was a very nice treat!! Grammom and Poppy survived their babysitting duties, altho I am sure they were ready for a vacation of their own, Noni, picked up the slack on Sunday and MOnday for us. The boys enjoyed all their spoling by the grands.

January has been fairly quiet. Maks got his first haircut since being home, yes, he has been home 1 yr and 2 months and this was his first haircut. It didn't go so well at first, he is not great in new situations and freaked out, wouldn't even have the cape on, so he sat on my lap and cried, until we gave him a lollipop and that did the trick, he sat calmly and cooperatively the rest of the time. Should have given him that to start, but know we know. He looks so handsome and best of all he still has his curls, especially when his hair is wet. I was afraid of losing them.

I didn't get pictures at the actual haircut, but did managed to save some of his cute curls for his book.

Alek is as active as ever especially with the new moonbounce in our basement. Everynight is filled with bouncing and hurling his body all over it, he is crazy!!

he is already talking about his birthday party and wants a jungle animal party, not sure how I am supposed to pull that off?

So we are in the midst of winter and have had like 2 inches of snow, which we had to race home to play in because it was due to wash away that night and it did, but at least we got to test out one of the new sleds. Alek loved it, Maks not so much, he was more interested in the snow itself. So we are praying for some good snow at least once so we can have some sledding fun. I will be happy with one good snowfall and then bring on spring!

On an ending note, I was coloring with the boys the other day and just was staring at their eyes, I just love their beautiful blue eyes, looking at them makes my heart melt, so of course I had to make them stop coloring so I could get close up photos of their eyes! I know pretty soon they are going to moaning and groaning about all the pics I take, but I feel like I just want to catch everything!!