2016 So Far

   I can't believe it's been nearly a month since my last blog post! That is so unlike me, but I guess I can blame it on being in Texas almost the entire month. I figured blogging could wait, but then I realized January is nearly over and I haven't even written about our New Year's Eve! So, here it goes.... 

    On New Year's Eve, we went to dinner with a few of our friends at a sushi restaurant that we all really like. Then we went downtown to take a few pictures of the lights. We couldn't make it downtown before Christmas, so we made time that night. It's not like we had anything better to do and I'm so glad we did.

     After looking at the lights and doing a little window shopping, we went back to our friends house. We put Connor to sleep and then watched a movie and saw a few fireworks from their balcony. Once the movie was over, we went home. We can't stay up late like we used to. I think we are getting old!

     We didn't do much the first few days of January. We played at home, took the dogs on walks, and attempted to find an indoor play place for Connor to get him out of the house. That was unsuccesful, so we ended up taking him to Mc.Donald's to play.

 1/1 They made matching bracelets out of play-doh.

 1/2 Taking a walk. It started snowing later that day.

 1/3 Connor's first taste of a McFlurry. He wasn't a fan.

    On January 5, Connor and I went to a cooking class. He didn't participate like I hoped he would, so Aaron picked him up about half way through.  I was able to enjoy the rest of the class and not have to worry about him getting into everything. We made 3 meals from scratch and got to take the leftovers home. It.Tasted.Amazing.

 Chopping the food up in the food processor was really the only thing he enjoyed doing.

Making and cutting bigoli noddles.

 Watching closely with Aunt Mo.

Ragu sauce over bigoli noodles.

 Left: lasagna. Right: Cheese and prosciutto rolled in speck and then fried. 

     On January 8, we said goodbye to daddy and left for the good ol' US of A. We have been having a wonderful time with our family, but we miss him so much! I'll post all about our trip when I get back to Italy. Until then, bye y'all!

"I want that one mommy."