Hello 2011!

I’m a little late with my New Year’s post, simply because so much happened at the end of 2010. I cannot believe another year is in the books. Over. Done with. I cannot believe I started off 2010 newly pregnant and ended the year with a 4-month-old little boy who I love more than I thought capable. And I still cannot believe how lucky I am to have married my best friend. 2010 was great, but I hope 2011 is even better.

Kenny, Riley, and I went to a party at Brian and Bridget’s house on NYE night. There are so many kids at our get-togethers these days! I was watching the older ones run around, blowing on their noisemakers, yelling and screaming, and generally creating mayhem, and I thought to myself, “I can’t wait until Riley is old enough to do this.”

  

Then I realized he’s much easier to deal with NOW. Even with all of the drool.

He was up for about two hours after we got there and then went down relatively easy, considering all of the noise. He woke up crying once, but he slept through the entire stretch of New Year’s fireworks. How, I don’t know, because the people in the neighborhood seemed like they were trying to outcompete one another for the biggest and loudest firework display. Brian included. But they did provide me with a good chance to test out the “Firework” setting on my camera.

Riley also got to meet his potential future (older by three weeks) girlfriend, Ashlyn. She was born just 5 days after her cousin, Jack (who slept through the whole party. Kenny and I are very jealous of the peace Kelli and Steve are enjoying right now. Although, they did have some very rough times with Jack early on, so I’m ultimately glad for them. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t still wishing with all of our might for Riley to sleep for 12 hours straight.). And all of the parents are friends. How cool is that?

  

It really was a fun, low-key, laidback night. Kenny and I hadn’t seen any of our friends for quite a while, so it was nice to spend some time with the ones who were able to make it to the party. I hope your New Year started off as great as ours did!

Unfortunately my first picture of 2011 didn’t include Riley: he was sleeping. :(