Year of the Dragon

So, we just had our American New Years, and I was quite ready to roll out a new year, a fresh start, and set some important goals I intend to make happen. It was a pretty low key event as we are now 31 weeks pregnant, but Kirsten and I were able to spend much needed quality time together starting with dinner New years eve at Gourmandise in downtown Salt Lake. We then went to a local grocery store and picked up some sparkling cider, a box of TNT poppers, some confetti poppers, some Champagne glasses ( for the sparkling cider) and finally some glittery 2012 party hats and Tiara's. We then went to the Cinema's with a $20 gift card, and watched "New Years" fittingly enough... and though it was pretty cliched, it was just what we needed to end 2011. 

After our movie we had about 1.5 hrs till the ball dropped, so we went back to Kir's and opened up the 1st bottle of cider bubbly, while we attempted to hook up her laptop to the HDMI cable function on her TV. After .6 hours of messing with that and me downing over half of the fake fizzy stuff to myself we had successfully launched a browser to her TV, and googled the "Live" Times square ball drop. We eagerly started watching only to find that it was delayed oh, 5 hours... with no way to fast forward to the current time and synchronize it with Utah New years. So, about 15 minutes till New Years and we opted to take our party up to the buildings roof, where we once had a cupcake date and listened to music out of a shoe, and enjoyed a beautiful summers night. Now it was winter in Utah, and a lot more cold. We toughed it out as we sat and listened to neighboring buildings parties with apparently inebriated people shouting "Happy effin New Years" for a 10 minute span as our sober asses giggled at them from our roof top.


The next day we spent lazily laying around wondering what our beautiful baby girl was doing inside her mommies belly and realized that we had now reached 2012 and it was the year our daughter would come into the world ( thats right mom, I know it was a surprise).... according to Chinese New year, as a Dragon.




Here is what the Dragon's Lair currently looks like:

Here is what I look like wondering what my baby is wondering:

And this is how I want to spend all my time protecting her and her mom:

Happy New Years!