Happy Birthday Daddy!

My favorite picture of the evening
Blake opening his Hossa jersey

Being silly

Luke enjoyed the brownie cake!

Today was Blake's 34th birthday and we had a little celebration with just the 4 of us. We had Red Robin burgers for dinner and peanut butter brownies for dessert. Blake was very excited about his jersey so now he has something to wear when he watches the games. We're both looking forward to Saturday night when we have an adult birthday night out for dinner and a comedy club, we can't wait!

Play Group Christmas Party

Enjoying all of the different toys!

Aunt Katie smelling Luke's P U stinky feet!

Most of the kids posing!

This year we had our annual Christmas party with my play group at Ronette's house. She had just finished her basement so there was both plenty of room and toys for everyone! My sister came with us and she just soaked up all of the kids...she was holding a baby almost the entire time! It is amazing how our group has grown. It began with 12 girls getting together with their newborn babies being the only thing we had in common. Our group has now grown considerably, many people with two children and some with 3! We have continued to make an effort to stay a part of each others lives. I'm so grateful for the friends that I've made and the talks that we have. All of our "newborns" will be heading into their 4th year of life this spring and I can't wait to share many other special moments with the girls and all of our children!

New Years Day

Luke, Paige, Ryan & Chase

On New Years day we headed over to the Chrustowski's house to spend our first day of the new year with good friends. Like always Luke used Paige's vacumn, Chase and Paige played hide and seek with Luke (although Luke doesn't ever know it), and Ryan was crawling all over the place. We had a nice dinner and just enjoyed hanging out together!

New Years Eve 2009

Luke wearing his party hat
Me and the boys

All the moms and kids on New Years

All of the ladies

On New Years Eve the year we headed over to our friends Shawn and Andria's house. They had some friends and neighbors over for a nice dinner. My sister Katie went with us too. It was a nice evening to reconnect with some friends that we haven't seen in awhile. This was the first New Years Eve in a long time that we didn't ring in the new year at midnight but sleep is more important to me this year!