And in October to New York City. It was totally wild! I remembered enjoying The Big Apple much more as an 18 year old. As a mom with my 3 kids it mostly left impressions of being crowded, dirty, inconvenient etc...oh well, live and learn! We still had a great time hanging out in Central Park, the museums, the Staten Island ferry (we actually rented a house in Staten Island for the week so we passed the Statue of Liberty on the days we went across the bay on the ferry to Manhattan).
Later that month Clara turned 1. We had a big party with all the family featuring a ladybug for our little lady. To this day when we read a book, if there is a ladybug in it, she'll find it and point it out without fail. She loves them! I don't know if it was because of the cake or what, but I love that we picked a good subject for her #1.
We also started house hunting in earnest. And Landen turned 3. And that Lightening McQueen, is 100% cake and fondant. With a little yellow vinyl!
The Holidays Season came and went. Birthday for me came and went. In March we decided to go to France with Rhett's mom. She has been trying to get us to travel with her for a while. But with the ages of our kiddos it never seemed doable. By the time they were old enough to think about leaving we were well on our way to expecting the next one. Not this time, so to France we went. It was amazing. We covered half the country in about 7 days. I couldn't believe how big the kids seemed when we got home after 9 days! France will get it's own post in about 2 years. ha ha And while we were in France we opened escrow on a house purchase. When we got home, we had a short window to close our loan and then it was packing and moving! Then unpacking, trying to get settled and ready for Kindergarten! Lots of adventures and big changes for our little family in the last year and 1/2.
