Train potty

It's 1am on Sunday Night/Monday morning.

I have to be at school in 7 hours. UGH.

But here I am, blogging because I can't sleep.

You see, I have been on Christmas Break for the past 16 days, which means for the past 16 days I have stayed up late EVERY.SINGLE.NIGHT (we are talking about going to bed after 1 am)

I blame this on the fact that 1)  I am a night owl and 2) I have been dealing with a cranky teething baby who hasn't wanted to go to sleep until after midnight.

Also, the past 2 weeks we have been in party mode & vacation mode and our normal schedule has gone out the door. All of us have been staying up way later than normal and sleeping in way later than normal.
Kevin has also had the past 2 weeks off. Glorious!

So here I am, wide awake and everyone else in my house is sound asleep.
Monday is back to reality......School and Work.

Let's take a look at what Christmas Break looked like.

For starters, I pretty much wore pj's all day, every day. Not kidding.

The day after Christmas, the 4 of us I mean 5 of us (I keep forgetting there are 5 of us now!) headed up to Lake Tahoe to enjoy the snow. 

One thing about me. I LOVE the snow. LOVE it.

I may be a California girl born and raised, but I LOVE snow. 

There is a reason I went to college in Colorado. One of those reasons is SNOW. 

It makes me happy. It's so peaceful and calming. Love, love, love it.

Here is a picture of me that Kevin took the first night in Tahoe. 

It was cold....like 15 degrees. We got the house all toasty & cozy with a fire, but I kept getting fever chills. Not good. I took a hot shower. Didn't work. Still feverish. I thought I was getting mastitis. Woke up the next morning & I was fine. Yay. No drama.

The first of many snowy pictures I took.

Luke is his cozy fuzzy fleecy snow outfit.

First time in the snow. Yay!

The girls "clearing off" the deck.

Making a snowman.

Meet Frosty:

Nature's Ice Chest.

Have you seen this show, Shipping Wars on A&E? LOVE it. There was a marathon on one day. I so many episodes.

Icicles on our roof:

Kevin built the girls a sledding hill in the front yard. Hours of fun.

Cutest snow baby EVER.

Hot coco by the fire. Bliss.

The girls got a Wii for Christmas. My favorite games include: Bowling, Mario Cart & Just Dance 4.

More snow. I can't get enough!

My favorite coffee shop in Tahoe:

Heading back home. Always bittersweet. I could have stayed another week.

The day after we got home it was NYE and my sisters and I had a trip to Napa planned!

My older sister turned 35 in August and wanted to do a sisters wine tasting day, but since Rebecca & I were both pregnant, we postponed it until now. 

First stop, Rombauer Vineyards!

Next stop, Elyse Winery in honor of Elyse!

Then, we went to Cakebread Cellars....YUM.

A late lunch at Dean & Duluca....can you say cheese?

It was a great last day of 2012.

Then, 2013 kicked off and I had a girls night out with some local bloggers!

We went to dinner & a Favorite Things Party!

Oh, and did you know that I am tall? And have very short friends?

See Exhibit A:

Feel free to call me Amazon Mel :)

Christmas Break was also spent dealing with a teething Luke. 

Not even 5 months old and his bottom 2 teeth already broke through.

This calls for Tylenol for him and wine for me. 

Has anyone used one of those Amber teething necklaces? Do they work? Or is it just a gimic?

Let me know.  This guy needs some relief. And sleep. So do I.