Happy New Year!

2011 has come and gone and we are looking forward to what 2012 has to bring! I will post a little recap of our Christmas in Broken Arrow. Bryan and I drove to Broken Arrow a week earlier than expected for my Grandpa's funeral that was on December 12th. Since it is a lot of driving and we had planned to be in Broken Arrow the week after, Bryan flew back to Baton Rouge to work the rest of the week and I stayed at my parents. My mom, sister and I had fun making our stockings that week while getting extra time with Payton! 

Payton and Uncle Bryan were making the best our of our trip to Hancocks while my mom was helping my sister and I pick out our fabric!

We picked Bryan up from the airport on Friday the 16th and had fun with family (including my Grandma who came up for Christmas) and friends that week. We enjoyed the Candlelight Christmas Eve service at Asbury which is always beautiful and enjoyed being with my whole family Christmas day at my parents house. Of course time flies when you are having fun so our trip quickly ended and we drove our 10 hour drive back to Baton Rouge. The next day Bryan started back to work while I did many loads of laundry trying to get back into our daily routine. 

As for New Years Eve Bryan mentioned going to New Orleans. Thinking and hoping we would only live here for one New Years, I knew that it would be the only chance we would have so I was up for it yet a little nervous of the craziness! So that evening we putt on our jazziest outfits and headed to New Orleans! Again, we rode in on the trolley, that was packed with people (mostly tourists) and headed to the French Quarter. Mardi Gras beads were flying from the balconies which I caught a few until they started asking girls to flash them. And yes, women actually do it. Mostly older women in there 40s I would say that are wearing tube tops. I was shocked so after I bought my mask and saw my fair share of...crazy people we headed to Jackson Square area and met a few of Bryan's coworkers and their girlfriends/fiances and had a late dinner. Around 11:30 we headed to the river to watch the "fleur de lis drop" and all the fireworks with about a million other people.

In the trolley!

My fun mask! There were so many different ones!

The police rode on horses through the crowds of people.

Quite an experience that we will never forget! I felt like everyone had their own bottle of Champagne except us! Around 12:15 we started quickly walking to the trolley stop with everyone else. We walked from stop to stop with less and less people at each and luckily got on one. I had my head up against an open window the whole time felling a tad claustrophobic. We finally got to our car and made it home safely around 3. What an unforgettable night. We are now having a lazy Sunday thinking about going to see a movie or at least trying to enjoy the beautiful weather. Thankful Bryan has the day off tomorrow!!