Christmas and New Year in NYC

This year we decided to spend the holidays in New York at home. We did the same last year and it's been fun just our little family on Christmas morning starting new traditions with Poppy. The week leading up the Christmas was insane trying to wrap and ship off all the family presents and get Poppy's gifts together and wrapped and have a busy week with work. We also had a thief in our building who stole 2 boxes sent from family with Poppy presents. Tear. We went and saw Santa at Macy's and Poppy had a holiday party and met Santa once again. Yeah, she's pretty happening.

Here are some pictures from the week.

Our living room view from the kitchen. Instead of buying christmas decorations this year to save money, I decided to make some. These are just different colors of felt cut into circles and used a hole punch in middle of circles to put string through. That easy. Got the idea Here

I had a few ornaments from last year but needed to add something extra so I decided to cut out these little birds and hang them on the tree. Added a ton. Got them HERE. Thanks Shuana!

These were my Friend/Neighbor gifts. I made some peppermint hot chocolate mixes using mason jars. Got recipe HERE.

Christmas Eve we spent visiting the Rockefeller Tree, bumping into a person dressed as Elmo on the street which made Poppy's night, went on a horse carriage ride in Central Park, and had desert at our friends house that night. We also froze our butts off.

Christmas morning. Poppy opening her first present with a morning muffin in hand. Shortly after realized she needed both hands to tear that wrapping paper off so I ended up finishing the muffin. That's what always happens...

So stoked about her new hair clips from her cousins that she insisted on putting all of them in at once. The girl knows what's up.

After presents we had a crepe party at our apartment with some friends (new tradition) and then headed over to our friends in Brooklyn to celebrate. This is Poppy after her first taste of peppermint and her sweet Nike two piece. Thanks Grandma!

The day after Christmas there was a huge blizzard which left all of this

New Years Eve...you're a little limited when you have a toddler that goes to sleep at 7PM and nobody is around to babysit so we ended up just taking a ferry ride to Staten Island and back. It was perfect for Pops, she could just run up and down the ferry and get out all the energy she needed.

That night to celebrate the new year we did some of this

And some of this

We rocked it. We stayed awake long enough to see the ball drop on TV. I got mad at Reyn for falling asleep on me at 10PM. Forced him awake to sit and watch TV with me. Awesome.