2012. How did that happen? I was just sitting at this desk scouring beach house rental sites with Nana in January...that does not seem like a year ago! It's been a doozie of a year. Earthquakes, sinus infections, new preschool, ear infections, Tinkerbell infatuations, discovering the color purple, bike rides, half marathons, Virgin Gorda (definitely the highlight!), the Outer Banks (with Barley!!!!), our first garden with too many cherry tomatoes, lots and LOTS of rain, LA Boxing, and just not enough sleep. It's been like that quote from Parenthood, when the grandma is talking to Steve Martin (one of my most favorite people...where'd he go?) about roller coasters "I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it."
We had our share of frightened, scared, sick, excited, and thrilled this year. We are definitely roller coaster people. But let's hope 2012 doesn't have some of the steep hills we had this year. I don't get sentimental or blog "chatty" often, so sorry for the long post. I resolve to be succinct this year!
For new years, Dee Dee and Pop Pop came to visit and we visited the National Christmas tree downtown. It happened to be a balmy 60 degrees that day so it was a nice day to walk around a bit. We even got to see the Occupy DC tents! That was fun. Dee Dee and Pop Pop endured a wild weekend with the wee Julia and we were all able to ring in the new year at midnight together.
The Christmas tree was probably beautiful before they threw the blanket of lights on it. Somehow, it made the shape of the tree all distorted and it looks like some sort of strange...well....boob actually. Yes, I just wrote "boob" on a family friendly blog. But it's true! I feel badly for that tree. The trains were pretty awesome though. There was an Amtrak train (the word Amtrak should have a register mark on it. I know this because Amtrak is a sponsor of ZooLights and I had to design a TON of recognition for their small donation. Bitter? No.), several Thomas trains, some military trains and they all ran around on several tracks with cute little towns. On a nice day, kids could sit there and throw money (yes, people were throwing money at the trains) for hours. Fortunately, Julia got hungry. But check out Pop Pop's hat! So stylish!
We had our share of frightened, scared, sick, excited, and thrilled this year. We are definitely roller coaster people. But let's hope 2012 doesn't have some of the steep hills we had this year. I don't get sentimental or blog "chatty" often, so sorry for the long post. I resolve to be succinct this year!
For new years, Dee Dee and Pop Pop came to visit and we visited the National Christmas tree downtown. It happened to be a balmy 60 degrees that day so it was a nice day to walk around a bit. We even got to see the Occupy DC tents! That was fun. Dee Dee and Pop Pop endured a wild weekend with the wee Julia and we were all able to ring in the new year at midnight together.
The Christmas tree was probably beautiful before they threw the blanket of lights on it. Somehow, it made the shape of the tree all distorted and it looks like some sort of strange...well....boob actually. Yes, I just wrote "boob" on a family friendly blog. But it's true! I feel badly for that tree. The trains were pretty awesome though. There was an Amtrak train (the word Amtrak should have a register mark on it. I know this because Amtrak is a sponsor of ZooLights and I had to design a TON of recognition for their small donation. Bitter? No.), several Thomas trains, some military trains and they all ran around on several tracks with cute little towns. On a nice day, kids could sit there and throw money (yes, people were throwing money at the trains) for hours. Fortunately, Julia got hungry. But check out Pop Pop's hat! So stylish!
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