New Years and Such

The latest...
Well 2008 is now here. We rung (is that proper english??) in the New Years with a few friends from Don's Real Estate Master's Program. We took Chloe with us. I thought she would probably fall asleep...but Chloe had other plans. She apparantly knew it was the designated day to Par-tay because she played well past midnight. I might mention she didn't sleep very much during the day either. But I will hand it to her-she was in a very good mood and so she was fun to show off!

Don's B-day was also on New Years Day. He turned 31. Go Don! His birthday was kind of lame. I can't even remember what we did. So I planned a surprise dinner at a restaurant for him a few days later and invited some friends from the single days that we hadn't seen for a long time. That was fun.

Let's see...what else....

Chloe got herself into this bind. She is happy in this picture, being proud of herself that she got in there in the first place. She was pretty mad though when she couldn't figure out how to get out.
So we went to the traveling "Santa's Theme Park" on January 5th. Sound a little odd to anyone? I admit going after Christmas...heck, after New Years, the place had lost a little bit of its Holiday "magic." But it was still pretty entertaining, but for not the typical reasons. It was basically a miniature State Fair, Christmas style. Carnies and all. It also had a very frightening HUGE Santa. I felt very sorry for the man behind the suit. I mean really, he SHOULD be back at the North Pole by now.
Okay so here is why I found this place so entertaining.
1. My BRILLIANT husband had the grand idea of putting Chloe in her stroller this way, instead of in her car seat that just attaches to the stroller. As you can see, she was very pleased. I guess looking up at my face isn't as thrilling to her as the rest of the world she can see in this position.
2. Chelsey.
Chelsey, Chelsy, Chelsey. My little sister never ceases to amaze me. So for anyone that doesn't know, Chesley is my 19 year old mentally disabled little sister. She is basically the funniest person I know. We invited Chelsey to go with us for two reasons. We thought she would have fun, and secondly, we needed someone else to go so we weren't riding on rides alone. We thought Chelsey could watch Chloe while Don and I rode on some rides together. I didn't think Chelsey would really want to go on the rides because they would be too "scary." It turned out that I was really grateful she went, but not because of the before mentioned reason-I was glad because she was Don's partner for all the rides I refused to go on. She is FEARLESS. Let it be said that I am horrified by many amuement park rides. In fact I have been known to close my eyes and sing hymns while riding many of them. The picture above is the first ride she went on that completely shocked me. I thought she would come off the ride really mad because she hated it, and I was feeling bad that I hadn't stopped her from getting on it (I wouldn't have gotten on that thing). But instead she gets off and is raving about how much fun it was. I seriously was so shocked. And then it kept getting funnier from there. For instance:
So here is Chelsey riding that ride that takes you up really high then drops you really, really fast. She loved it.


Chloe and me were grateful to be on the ground staring up at them.

Other amusing tid bits:
There was this ride that was supposed to simulate hang gliding that I went on with Chelsey and it was really funny because she goes out of nowhere "Aaaaa...feel the mist." That really made me laugh.

She also told me that she wanted to go on all the rides because she wanted to "conquer all her fears." I realized that night, I could learn a lot from Chelsey, and also, it is never good to place limitations on people.


And this picture of Chloe and me is in front of Chelsey's favorite ride. There is no way I would have gotten on that one either.

And finally, my funny story today. Don and I were watching a movie (National Treasure) and we got up in the middle of it to change Chloe's diaper. When we came back we could not find the remote anywhere. We were really baffled. We spent an hour looking for it, and while we did not find the remote in some of the places we looked, we also found some "treasures" of our own. Apparantly I need to clean the top of my fridge more often. That decrepid thing I am holding is a banana. We did finally find the remote, it was hidden in a video tape case on the coffee table...but we found it rather ironic that we were on our very own treasure hunt!

And that is all! Bon Jour!