Company Christmas Party

My first week of work also happened to be the company Christmas party. The whole family was invited, so Cohen got dressed up for the event.

He was very excited about the little gifts he got (a light up snowman and a santa for his door) and had a lot of fun dancing.

my cute little man!

New Job

After a little over 7 years with GreekBill, I have decided to start a new job. The decision was difficult as I have had a wonderful 7 years with GreekBill and have seen so much growth during that time. The biggest draw of the new job was getting to be back in an office setting and be around people again. It has been a long 5 1/2 years working from home, and being downtown is very exciting. 

My new job puts me in the heart of downtown Denver on Market St. It is fun to go out to lunch or just walk around downtown during lunch time.

This is the view from my new office, can't complain about that!!

December Birthday Celebration

With 3 siblings with December birthdays we have made it a family tradition the last few years to do one big party for all 3 of them. This year we were missing Kate who is living in Texas, but went ahead with the two little ones of the family, Lin and Scott.

 Cohen likes to be in on the action

 and based on this pic knows he has his auntie and uncle wrapped around his little finger

 and his grandma and grandpa too

 their cake

 again, a big helper in Cohen

 ready, set...

BLOW! As you can see even uncle scottie was ousted by the little blower.

Happy birthday to a great brother and sister and auntie and uncle!

NYC

Well folks it is my FINAL November post...woo hooo...next week maybe it will be in December in a week...then January...February...and by then it will be April!

Anyhoo, I was able to tag along to NYC with Sam and we had a great weekend (other than me being really sick)

Kate and I had done the city years ago around Thanksgiving time, but I had never been for the full fledged Christmas tour, it was beautiful

the tree

some amazing window displays

we got to say at the Waldorf Astoria which is amazing on its own!

we met Joel and I FINALLY met Michelle for a show which happened to be on the same night of the tree lighting so that added a little extra to the cross town commute but at least we were able to then get a tree shot a few nights later

we went to a great little restaurant next to the hotel and had the BEST pretzel I have ever had and I LOVE pretzels!

we then joined Michelle and Joel and some of their friends for dinner then headed to this bar by their place that has indoor bocce courts, it was a blast

NYC at Christmastime is truly amazing, and something everyone should do at least once

Botanic Garden

We got some free tickets to the Botanic Gardens and decided to enjoy the beautiful day

they have a great kids area

Cohen loved the digging

and running across the bridge

of course the family shadow shot

and the gardens, so pretty!

Thanksgiving

Our actual Thanksgiving up in Loveland

Cohen was the first to eat

my brother's friend Ben makes his own sodas so Sam was testing one out...Ben is happy to have people taste them

we made some fancy Thanksgiving cupcakes

which Cohen enjoyed

and then DEMOLISHED

this is one of my new favorite photos!

the siblings...minus Kate

the day after Thanksgiving the Cornells came up to do some shopping (at Bri's request since it is her birthday afterall) so the boys got to play while we shopped, they (much like their dads) like to create games so they had this who weeble game going across the coffee table

and thought it was AMAZING! Cohen also thought it was so silly to be having friends at grandma and grandpa's house!