Happy New Year!

We had a really great supper tonight at Saigon.  I wish it had been IN Saigon, but that will have to wait until tiny Miss gets a couple of years older.  The waitresses and Chloe & Grace were all dressed in their ao dais and all looked beautiful!  I felt too much like a tourist asking the waitresses if they would take a picture with the girls so I just have a couple of the two of them.  Chloe chowed down tonight on fresh spring rolls and rice and fortune cookies.  My sister and I shared catfish in a clay pot that I had been wanting to try, and of course the fabulous coffee!  They even had envelopes with lucky money for the kids hanging in the windows that they gave out.  I’m so glad we went, the weather wasn’t great but it was worth the trip out in the cold.  

I hope everyone had a great day!

Yes, they had to cover up their fancy clothes while they were eating!

Pink and Brown

This happens to be one of my favorite color combinations, especially for baby/toddler girl clothes.  It also happens to be the color scheme for Thursday, January 8.  Thursday is the 1st birthday of Gwenyth Rose, who you can meet and learn all about if you visit the CF Husband blog over on my sidebar.  She is an absolute miracle and I have loved watching her grow and develop and surprise her doctors and everyone else over this past year.  It’s kind of like Shelby’s signature color of pink in Steel Magnolias if you’ve seen that movie enough times to have every line memorized like I do.  I am going to try very hard to get Chloe up and dressed in something festive and get her picture posted here with a Happy Birthday sign, but we’ll see how that goes.  You’ll notice you haven’t even seen our Christmas pictures or anything yet so don’t actually hold your breath for that to happen on Thursday.  If you’d like to check them out and add any birthday wishes or prayers, they’re celebrating all week over on their blog.  I’m sure they’d love it if you decided to wear pink and or brown on Thursday, too.  For me, it will probably have to be brown, I can’t really pull off pink–it just looks kind of out of place on me!

Here are a couple of fun pictures to tide you over until I get more descriptive Christmas and New Year’s posts up.

New Year’s Eve, cheering for the Jayhawks in the bowl game…

(Hopefully the next time you see her wearing this outfit she will have a new KU bow to wear with it from Da Holly G!!)

This is as close as we could get to a cute Mother/Daughter pic during the past two weeks…Chloe in her Halloween kitty jammies, and not really looking at the camera.

Look how absolutely adorable she can be for a picture when she chooses to be.  I love this picture of Chloe and my Mom, can you just tell what great friends they are?

And here she is with Grandpa’s hat…

This is one of my new favorite pictures of Chloe and my dad.  I’m not sure what it is about this one, but I think it’s the colors of my aunt’s house in the background.

 

I know what you’re thinking, it may be time for another hair cut for Chloe.  We’re trying a new detangling spray first to see if that can tame the ‘do.  Some days it just looks so cute long, but others it just looks crazy.  One of these days the little hairs underneath the comb-over will grow in and i can start pulling it up or back and I think longer will look cute, but for now maybe not so much?!  We’ll see.