Happy New Year to everyone and what a year we had in 2010. I am looking forward to 2011 and all the great memories yet to be made. The beginning of the year started out with a bang with a New Year's party at our house. I say bang because I swear someone set off a bomb in my house with the amount of dirt, trash, toys, cards, and liquor bottles I cleaned up the next day...not to mention the ridiculous pictures I found on my camera (sorry, those will never be posted). It really was fun and the clean up was well worth it.
Christmas was great this year. Almost perfect really. It snowed Christmas Eve and we had a memorable drive home with the back of the truck looking like Santa's sleigh. Fourteen people in the Djordjevich house was a lot of people at one time. It just seems to jive, and after being around for almost 16 years, it's my new normal and I enjoy every bit of it. It's hard to hold a conversation, and I'm the soft talker in the family, so I generally get talked over. :-) Don't worry, I enjoy the noise and was in shock when the entire studio was quiet when we got family pictures taken. That was just weird! We miss you guys! Hurry back!
When we finally made it back to Mom and Dad's it was the usual flurry to get to Church (it wouldn't be Christmas Eve without hearing my Mom sing), a beautiful 10pm walk in the snow with my parents, and a late night sitting by the fire talking about nonsense. You see, everything was just perfect. That is what Christmas is about. The only thing missing was my sister Jenn. They were not coming back this year. Work! I really missed them. For 35 year's my sisters have always been there for Christmas. :-( We texted a lot and settled for some private laughs.
Christmas day is more of a blur, but I do remember Ava's face when Uncle Mark gave her those light up shoes, Auntie Danica's artwork to Ava, and the late night Dance Party with Yammi and Ava while Harris and Nick rolled their eyes at us and the ridiculous music we blared, then another late night sitting by the fire talking more nonsense until 1 in the morning. I still laugh about the direction our conversations took.
A fun night out with Dejan and his family was a good way to finally talk to everyone without any kids around. Funny how I appreciate going out again after having a baby. Little sleep made the 5 days go by fast and blurry, but I have to say this was one of the better Christmases in a long time. My final thought is about the feeling I had watching Ava experience Christmas. It was like watching myself as a child! There is something so special about this girl.
Christmas is much better with a kid around...much messier, but way more fun.
4 comments:
Thanks for remembering all that and writing it down.... I loved our dance party and snowball fight. It was wonderfulllllll!
OOOOHHH I forgot to mention the snowball fight! That was probably an even better day than Christmas. :-)
Hi! You are probably wondering who the weirdo is that is following you now...it's Julie, with Mallory and Brady, from library and gymnastics! Just found your blog off of Sarah's! Hope to see you more often...and see Ava too! :)
Julie, so funny. The blog world brings us that much closer. ha I see you have a blog as well, and now I am happy to know your last name. :-) I look forward to keeping up and seeing you guys around this winter too.
I had a chance meeting with your husband at Target the evening I saw you there. Mallory and Ava were wearing the same shirt and your husband pointed it out (which I find very funny-sorry for laughing about that). :-)
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