*backdated, durr!*
First things first : HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE!!!!!
Today of course was the last day of 2013; I'm once again floored by how quickly it went, and again I'm looking very much forward to what 2014 is going to bring us.
The daylight of December 31st really wasn't anything super magical; I made us all breakfast before we continued our mission of packing and cleaning Rob's house. Sydni was here this time, so of course she did her due diligence of
unpacking every other box and playing with whatever was in it, but in spite of it all, we still made some pretty massive progress.
As the evening rolled around, we made our way down to Fairview to Dawne's....
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| coco playtime |
2013 has been a rocky road [nothing like 2012, I'll say that much... but still.... ], but I'm looking back at it and making sure to identify some key individuals who made life a little better for us during our various transitions. Dawne is one of them, and tonight I was
so grateful to spend a little time with her before the year ended. I probably would've collapsed into myself early on in '13 if it hadn't been for her helping hand and generosity to Syd & me. We sure do love her!
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| dawne: love. her. |
From Dawne's, we headed back to Granite to Mike & Kelly's, where we started our New Year's Eve journey. Soon enough we had Jesse & Anna in tow, and the six of us rustled up some dinner plans. Before we left Jesse's, I made sure to capture Zepplin's New Years salutes; he. is. adorable.
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| zepplin says happy new year, too! |
After dinner, it was off in search of a New Year's crowd. Nobody put an ounce of planning into the night, so it was essentially us flying by the seats of our pants for the evening. That meant a pit stop [a bust, really] at a local dive downtown STL before we pretty much crash landed at Lumiere a half hour before midnight.
None of us are prolific gamblers [which is probably a good thing], so we had to laugh at our
BIG WINNINGS after feeding $5 to a slot machine and pocketing a buck-46 [which went right back in, haha].
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| yeah.. we party hard, ya dig... hahaha |
Most importantly, we managed to get out of the car & the parking garage before the ball dropped, and in the company of some great friends, we welcomed the new year. I'm feeling pretty good about this one, and I certainly didn't mind bidding '13 a farewell in the midst of some pretty awesome people.
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hello, 2014!!
♥ kelly. mike. cori. rob. jesse. anna ♥ |
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last couple selfie of '13..
.. with the best thing this place has to offer ♥ |
Happy 2014, to you & yours!
Let's make this a great one!
xo |
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