Facebook was filled on January 1 with people professing their ambitious New Year's resolutions and telling all their January 1 fortunes, announcing how wonderful "this year has been", all 10 hours of it. In corny, New Year's fashion, i will do the same:
January 1, 2012 was a super day! I hope all of 2012 is as good!
Our day started around 10! You got it...the entire Nichols crew was still sound asleep at 10am. Now for some of us (me and Logan), this was expected since we stayed up till midnight. Steve on the other hand, who went to bed at 10:00, has no excuse. All the same, we were all pleasantly rested for the first day of the year.
Just as I started to wake, I heard Steve tip-toeing away from my side of the bed, where he cleverly presented all of my Christmas presents. Yes, Christmas presents. We still had not exchanged gifts, but have done it on New Years morning for the past 8-9 years. Definitely worth the wait this year! As i rub my eyes open, and think to myself how achy my body is from all the entertaining the night before, like an angel, i see a gift card from Spa Finder. .. my own personal key to unlock the door of any massage place I choose! And on top of that, Cold Stone gift cards. I mean really, what could be better than a relaxing massage followed by ICE CREAM!
Thinking i must have woken up in Heaven, I thanked Steve and gave him my gifts. This year's theme, "Let me give you a gift that you can use to give me a new basement". Two saws (both of which are going back because he got one from his dad and one he already has), a demolition bar and a portable dumpster. Steve will be using it all next weekend to start demo on our basement ( a whole other story). I also added a few shirts and the other cool gift was a session for two to a Virtual Gun Range. Not sure exactly how it works, but Steve seems pretty excited about it.
Just as he finished up with his presents, he tells me that there is one more downstairs. (oh AND the night before Steve gave me a Flash for my camera - can't wait to learn how to use it). My final gift was a HOME PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO!!!
Which brings me to my New Year's Resolution! This year I want to learn to take great pictures! I have a dream of doing this Professionally one day, so I hope this year gives me lots of self taught experience!
The rest of the day was filled with time as a family... sadly a lot of cleaning and some work to get ready for school Tuesday. We opted for a family pizza night. Even Hayden, actually i should say, especially Hayden enjoyed it!
Our New Year's Day ended with some more fun times with the boys. At bath time I surprised the boys with a GREEN BATH! Logan woke up this morning still talking about it! **Note to anyone who tries this: all i used was Green Food coloring. Use just one tiny drop. Its enough to color the water, but not enough to stain the tub, washrag or skin.
January 1 was a terrific day marked by sleeping in again until almost 10am on January 2!
Happy New Year to all.
