New Years Eve 2009

We had a fantastic NYE! The day was pretty mellow and at 5pm my parents came over because they were staying overnight! We had it planned for a while. Randy and I got dressed up and went to dinner at my favorite place, PF Changs. Then we walked around Laguna Beach a bit and decided to turn in early. We stayed at a super cute Best Western in Laguna bc it's my favorite place. We had stayed at that same hotel for my 24th b-day so it holds great memories. My sweet husband had it decorated and we even had New Years crowns and horns to ring in the New Year! We watched the ball drop with Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest. We were both surprised we were able to stay up until mid night!
This was our first real overnight alone. By real I mean, we had the entire evening and night to ourselves and didn't have to worry about anything! Allow me to elaborate :) When the twins were 6 months old, we stayed just down the way for a night because the next day we were returning my pump to the hospital. I hadn't used it in over 2 months so we decided we should use it one last time and "get away" for a night. I pumped for a few feeds for the babies and then my parents stayed overnight with them. They hadn't had a bottle in so long that they almost didn't even eat from them that night! And, while it was nice to be with just my husband, I didn't get any more sleep than I normally did bc I still had to wake up for a midnight and 6am pumping! So that overnight get away doesn't really count, in our book :) There was no staying out or sleeping in. It was more of a test run to see how we would do being away from our babies for a night :)
Fast FWD to 12/31/09. I was so nervous to leave them! It had been 9 months since the first time! I knew they would be absolutely fine with my parents but I just didn't know if I would truly enjoy myself bc I would miss them so much. Randy had to practically drag me out of the house. I must have kissed them 700 times before I left. But, as always in any circumstance, they did great! My parents had so much fun they said :)
It was a fabulous night of just 100% quality time with my hubby, not having to worry about nursing or being on any schedule. We were free to what we wanted, when we wanted the whole time. That was our very first time to be like that in a year and a half. It was the first time we actually SLEPT by ourselves in 15 months. It was a MUCH NEEDED time for us. As a married couple, we strive to continue to put our marriage in top priority and spending time doing things that build it up. Dates and special times like that help us to stay connected and that is super important to us. Plus as parents it gives us time to re-energize which helps us to be better parents!
2009 was hands down one of the best years of my life, thanks to my children. 2010 will be even better I'm sure! I thank God for the past year of health an happiness and pray for that this year.

Happy New Year!!!