One of my very favorite weeks of the whole year is the week following the holidays before David has to go back to work. Sometimes its a short week between Christmas and New Years, but this week we were busy with family stuff all the way through New Years and David was able to take some extra time off before having to go back to work, so we had the whole first week of January to rest and enjoy each other's company without having to jump back into our regular routines/regular life just yet. I loved this week. It was the best part of Hygge. Slow, cozy, filled with just our family.
We had some slow mornings with book reading and making pancakes with chocolate chips. I think the picture of Caleb and Lydia shows them eating a cookie. Because what's a week of hygge without a giant cookie to stick in your mouth.?
Brooklyn and Matthew stopped by for a quick visit with Juniper. When we first met little Juni, she and Lucy looked SO different size wise (2 weeks vs 2 months is a HUGE difference) but now they are getting close to the same. I hope that these two will be great friends as they grow older!
Our biggest highlight of the week was heading to the Hogle Zoo for their Zoo lights event. Sue (and Cal) gave us a season pass to the Zoo this year for Christmas and we are SO excited to be able to use it. We loaded up and it was brisk outside, but really not very cold. But because of the weather the lions were RIGHT by the big windows and it was AWESOME to see them up so close! I mean, you know lions are big, but I was amazed to see how big they really are. (My mama instincts definitely kept telling me that I shouldn't let my babies so close to these big cats. Even though I knew we were safe, I had to laugh at those subliminal instincts.)
One of my personal favorite nights of this week was when David and I finished our Logan UT puzzle that we've been working on for... well... for the past year. I think we started it last New Years Eve-ish? We'd pull it out every once in a while for a movie/date night and really enjoyed it. It doesn't matter what I'm doing, as long as I'm doing it with David, it's my favorite thing to do.
But if that this is watching While You Were Sleeping (my favorite New Years Movie) and doing a puzzle while eating snacks together- then it REALLY is my favorite thing to do!
