Baby Shower!

On December 19th, my awesome sister-in-law Jessica hosted my baby shower at her house. It was more of a get-together than an actual baby shower (no games, no gift opening ceremony) and it was perfect. The decoration was really cute, the lion-theme spot on, and our friends and family made the event successful and fun. Here are a few pics of the elegant decoration Jessica put together:




We got tons of books, lots of generous gift cards from our family, and plenty of cute clothes. This baby boy is already spoiled!

it ain't easy studying...

... with a cuddly dog!

Vegas!

A couple of weeks ago, I flew to Vegas for 24 hours to see my dad, who was there for a week-long work conference. He had gotten really sick that week -probably had to do with the crazy A/C hotels put on to keep their guests awake- so we went out for meals and mostly stayed in the hotel and chatted. I have to admit we were quite typically French in that we stayed in the restaurants we went to for about 2 hours, just talking. It was really good to see him one-on-one and to spend quality time together. I miss him SO much. Next time I see him will be at the end of June, when he comes for 3 weeks to visit the baby. I don't think about distance too much but sometimes I pause and realize that I see my family members for about 7 days a years. Total. Now with my parents being divorced it will be even less -because I might not be able to stay in France for a whole 2 weeks. I hope we can manage something where I go there once a year and they come here once a year. That would be ideal!

Here is a picture of us after dinner:

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