Another Year to Celebrate

We headed to Utica to take in the mardi gras parade...

We were all waiting patiently for the parade to start.  A little hopping in place (to keep warm) and a beer in hand...

 This was Sailor throughout the entire parade...her little nose was so red...IT.WAS.COLD.

and so it began

Grey and I played a little dress up on 'fat Tuesday'...it was a riot

and in between celebrating we had some 'light saber wars'

This is Dee Dee's kind of gal...

the best we could do for a family shot

Sailor was getting in on some drum action

Deb cooked us a delicious ham with a special pineapple sauce for Nate's birthday dinner...it was sooooo good

So much to be thankful for!

Grey could not wait to light the candles

Giving Sailor some frosting...she liked it!

So we took in a little mardi gras action

and celebrated Nate's birthday....

And now, it's Lent.  Nate and I have been thinking a lot about what we are going to do.  I am trying to stay off facebook.  I'm not gonna lie, it's been hard.  I'm not saying I can NEVER go on;)  I'm just trying to stay off it as much as possible.  I've been pretty good about it thus far. 

And Nate is going to attend some morning weekday masses.  Hopefully I can join him as well.

Wish us luck!