A Belated Happy New Year

Happy New Year and new decade everyone! We had a great start to the New Year. Julie had a little party here in "The Village" and we all got to feel like grown ups for a just a little bit while the kids ran wild. Of course...we did celebrate the East Coast New Year's Eve, so we could all go to bed by 9pm.

Before we went to bed, though, we did take a moment to rush outside with all of the kids to look at the blue moon. Thor was a great uncle during the party. He played with the kids for a long time and tired everyone out, so we had a lovely, mellow moment right before the end of the party looking at the last New Year's blue moon for another 19 years.

Then we woke up not too bright and early on New Year's day. Julie and Scarlett came over and had ebilskivers with us (little round Danish pancakes). Then Patrick and I took the boys on our favorite hike up above the Observatory.

We didn't expect to get very far, it's a pretty tough hike, but the guys were troopers, they made it all the way to the top.

It was a perfect, clear, blue day and we could see all the way to Catalina. We hope everyone else had a perfect New Year's, as well.