after a fun week in tampa, we headed south to miami to ring in the new year. i wish that i could remember all that we did because i know we had fun but it's been over 2 weeks now and my short term memory eludes me. so once again, i'll recall the highlights in pictures.
the girls played some mini golf with papa on the course he had built in his backyard:

we went to a botanical garden in miami beach:


we had an awesome extended family hangout dinner with aunts/uncles & cousins. we went to the park a couple of times and did daily bike or scooter rides around my parents neighborhood.


we had a nice lunch at the ameri.can doll store, had our annual visit at san.ta's en.chanted for.est, and went to a super cool science and discovery museum.



we ate a LOT of really good food. emphasis being on a LOT. if i wasn't looking back at the pictures of the trip, all i would have remembered is all of the gluttonous eating. my parents neighbors have a fire pit in their backyard and i think we spent the last 4 nights at their fire roasting marshmallows, except for the last night when we added graham crackers and chocolate to go out big!!

on new years eve we stayed in with my folks and had an awesome night. we had delicious dessert (of course), we played games and we watched the party in times square. cooper and i fell asleep around 11:30 cuddled up on the couch and ryan woke me up when she started the count down. she was soooo excited that she was up to celebrate the new year. the week was awesome, my only regret was not being able to spend time with many more close friends.

cooper had a really hard time saying good bye to uncle dave this trip. she's always felt close to him and aunt danielle but seemed to have been closer than ever to them both this time. if aunt d were at the house when we were leaving i imagine she would have lost it even more. saying good-bye is so sad!
we headed back to tampa for a day on the final leg of the trip and had more fun with mimie, uncle ced, aunt jo and cousin peyton at the bowling ally. our plans were to hang at the beach which the kids were really looking forward to but unfortunately it rained so we were stuck indoors.
here's an awesome family shot that we got on the first leg of the trip when we went on the pirate boat:

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