Amanda's Visit, Date Night and Ringing In The New Year

Amanda made a short visit to our place after dropping off Nici, so we enjoyed an evening out at Blue Goose and visiting!

Proud Accomplishment of 2024....(drum roll...) 

Once-A-Month Date Night! The goal of "more dates" has been on our list of goals almost every year...we finally made it happen! It only took 19 years. ;) Most months we were sneaking it in the last week, and December was no exception. We had aspirations of doing our New Year Goal's Setting at a coffee shop, which didn't work out, but we did enjoy walking around seeing Christmas Lights and happened upon a Gelato place. Not too shabby. ;)

Year Of Dates!

Lorelei organized a Noon Years Eve event again and while she didn't have as many kids as expected (two were sick) she had her two "usual" sweet kiddos who enjoyed a chance to celebrate with way too much glitter. ;) So proud of Lorelei for working hard for her goals and love seeing how great she is with kids!

We celebrated New Years and actually stayed up to count down and see the NYC ball drop live (a first for the kiddos). Lorelei was thrilled about the idea of staying up so late and decided sixteen is absolutely the age this should happen. We had what we call our "Red Lobster supper" and then played games. Then we watched an AFV before turning on the countdowns/celebrations in New York, London, Sidney, and United Arab Emerates (wow drone show) before tuning in for the Texas countdown to midnight. Boy did I feel old and tired by that point. ;)

Happy New Year!