Austin 2010 NYE: reflections and thoughts

2010 started a new phase of my life. it was the year i became a parent and a stay at home mom. this year will be a marker. when i'm older and i look back at my life i will say- 2010, that was the year maria was born. that was the year i quit my job. that was the year my grandmother died. that was the year i had so many responsibilities that i finally felt like a real adult.

i have no idea what to expect in 2011 but i do look forward to spending time with maria and watching her grow. i look forward to sharing laughs with family and friends. i look forward to the few quiet moments i get with chris. i look forward to going on walks with daisy and maria. i look forward to just looking forward.

goodnight 2010.

Austin 2010 NYE: Home

we took a little drive around the neighborhood to see some of the christmas lights one more time. we stopped by the snowman army to get a picture of maria. she ended up in the nativity also. she wasn't very happy.

maria had sweet potatoes for her last meal of 2010. here are a couple of super funny pictures:

i think maria was still on her secondary buzz from the bikers at zilker.

 the last bath of 2010:

Austin 2010 NYE: Auditorium Shores

so i'm not a patient driver and i really hate traffic and i really hate parking and i really hate paying to park so you can imagine my frustration level on barton springs rd sitting in traffic to pay to park. we finally made it to the parking garage, unloaded and got over to auditorium shores. i'm not sure if the family friendly party was really worth the hassle of going but in a way i am glad we went. we got out of the house and took maria to her first baby rave! she tolerated all the commotion. she even laughed and smiled a few times and i think she really did enjoy the baby rave.

Austin 2010 NYE: Zilker Tree

we made it to the zilker tree tonight! it wasn't crowded at all except for all the stoned out bicyclers. i think we got a little secondary buzz going. . .

dinner fail

i don't know what happened tonight. this was a total dinner fail!

 maria spent a looooooong time in the bath tub tonight!

tony grendel and maria and daisy

 

thanks tony for sticking around for a few days to help out while chris recovered from getting his wisdom teeth taken out!

maria the bit torrent

maria rides again

the day after

omg- we found another maria tooth for a grand total of 2!!!!!! we can talk about her 'teeth' now instead of her 'tooth'!

maria's first christmas!

this was maria's first christmas. i'm just saying it will probably be downhill from now on because she got a pony. just sayin'. . . .

christmas eve

today is christmas eve!!! we finally put up the tree!! once we got the tree up we asked ourselves- 'selves- why did we wait so long to put up the tree? oh yeah- maria crawls!'. sooooo- note to selves- don't put up the tree early.

in addition to putting up the tree we ran by hancock fabrics to pick up a couple of sewing things my MIL needed to finish out the shopping cart/ restaurant high chair baby protector she is making for us. we also went by texas honey ham to pick up the most glorious christmas honey baked, spiral cut ham. it rained the entire time we were out. this is the first time in almost 3 months it has rained!

we made a super great tasty christmas eve dinner and enjoyed a nice, relaxed candle lit meal with chris's mom. maria hung out in the baby einstein jumper with some cheerios and daisy went back and forth between the table and maria sniffing for scraps of food. 

this next picture will always make me laugh. i almost feel bad about posting it on the internet for anyone to see. i'm sure maria will be upset with me in the future for releasing this on the www however i can't not post it- sorry bug.

now that you have stopped laughing. . . 

chris and i stayed up to greet chris's brother, tony. he got in about 11pm. while i was waiting for tony to get here i finished my portion of the christmas cards. if you are one of chris's relatives or one of his friends from high school and/ or college and you read that christmas cards were sent out and you did not receive one- blame chris! ;)

while we were waiting up for tony, we had the distinct honor of eating some cookies with santa. santa really liked the chocolate chip snicker doodle cookies i made and filled our stockings accordingly!

early christmas present

well, we know why maria has woken up multiple times screaming and crying over the last couple of nights. she has a tooth! for reals this time- she really has a tooth! we got a very, very quick glimpse of it. there is no way we can photograph it so you'll just have to trust me.

here is a cute maria pic: