2012

The Holiday season is now over and so I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year for 2012!
For us, Christmas time started early in December when we went to our good old neighborhood in Summit to pick up the tree at the Magic Fountain, down the street from our old apartment!
Once we got a hold of Théo preventing him from running around everywhere, we finally found a Christmas tree we liked, and, tree on the roof of the car, we were riding back home very excited to set up everything for our first Christmas in our new home.

In between, came December 17th. Some would say: "What happened on the 17th?" This was the day Rachel turned 33! And lucky her this year it happened to be on a Saturday!
So one more time, I wish you a very happy birthday mon Amour, and Théo wants to give to his maman millions of kisses because you are just that great.

And after a quiet week, we were all set and ready to celebrate Christmas!
We actually started a little early, in the morning of Christmas Eve. We first went to Théo's last baby swim class. He is doing so great that he actually doesn't need our help to swim and so he can stay in the water on his own without assistance (well except that he is still wearing a belt of course!).
Then, when we got home we had him discover that Santa came by because we were unable to bring some of our presents to the grandparents, where we would go later in the day for the real Christmas Eve.

Christmas Eve was as usual a nice and pleasant evening surrounded by family around a good meal. Then when the time came to open the presents on Christmas Day, it was just so great to watch Théo ripping off the paper and opening his gifts. He was really into it and, even though it wasn't technically his first Christmas, it was indeed the first one where he could really interact and we could see his reaction to each present he had.
Then we finished the day in our traditional way at Pat and Arlette's to spend the remainder of the day with the rest of the family.

And finally, to end up our relationship with 2011, we went to Barbara and Massimo's to celebrate the end of the year. The little munchkins stayed up a little later than usual, but of course as their tiny eyes were closed long before midnight, it was without them that the last second of 2011 passed and we cheered to a healthy and joyful 2012.

So here we are, well established in 2012 already. We are ready to put the Christmas tree out on the curb by the end of the week and we are already back into our everyday routine. But we know that this is going to be a good year, hopefully filled with lots of joy. So once again, Happy 2012 to all of you and we are very grateful to have you in our life.