All About The Peanut: Its been a year....

So I haven't blogged in a really really really long time.. and a lot has happened. We moved to a new house, we discovered the North Dallas Tollway (amazing by the way), Hannah left to go back to Brazil, we got a new au pair, Luma, who didn't really work out, so we got a new non live-in nanny, Ashley, who we love (and the boys anointed as almost as good as Aunt Hayley - and, let's be honest, Aunt Hayley is rated way above Mom and Dad), David completed his first year at St. Marks, Henry completed Pre-K I at Parish, both kids and Matt and I made lots of new friends - many that will likely be lifelong friends.

Everyone has been happy and healthy - for the most part. Henry continues to have a daredevil approach to life and has had staples in the head - twice, stitches on his face and one cut that required glue. He didn't cry through any of it and, from what I can tell, it hasn't phased his desire to jump off everything. Most of David's baby teeth - at least the ones you can see - have been replaced by permanent ones and he is almost as tall as me. They are both wonderful boys with very different personalities. We often say that David looks like Matt, but has my personality, and Henry looks just like me, but has Matt's personality. However, as they age, it is a little more nuisanced than that and we can see quiet of mix of us in each of them.

Tough most of the past year has been positive, there have been some tough times as well. I lost one of the closest people in my life - Grandma Gil - in January, which is still hard. I think of her almost daily and have really struggled not having her to call and go visit. But she lived a great, full life and left this world exactly the way she would have wanted - quickly and without fuss. One day, I would like to write more about the experience, about my time with her in her last few days, about how much she meant to me and how very much I miss her... but I am not quiet there yet.

Furthermore, for most of 2016, my work life balance was not balanced and I spent too much time focused on work and not nearly enough time focused on my kids or marriage. Matt suffered the same fate for most of the year so-far in 2017. Luckily, we seem to come out of it relatively unscathed and have gotten some balance back in our lives. I feel like this school year is off to a great start. Lots of good kid time, good routines and Matt and I have even gotten in some quality couple time.

All in all, life just everything keeps on moving forward, whether we are ready for it or not....

Lots of pictures (obviously), but I will do my best to keep up with the blog going forward.

David's baseball season with the Yankees. He is really good - hit the first home run of the season. And then a bunch more after that.