the end of a year.

I was lucky enough to spend the last night of the new year with these women. I love them, seriously. After being in the same circle of friends for over five years I am thankful for all the mornings we had play dates  with enough venti chai’s, venti green tea lattes and venti black teas to line the California coastline this past year. They are my rock.

of course our husbands were there, sipping on craft beer and wearing plastic top hats to humor us (can’t you tell how happy joel & jim are?)

janelle made yummy to.die.for artisan pizzas and tessa might have made some serious crack dip.

i made the kiddos countdown bags and we had fun hats for the wee ones.

the kids opened up their Christmas presents, ate muddy buddies, played with glow sticks and tore apart their countdown bags all over the saldua household.

 charlie showing his pure and utter excitement for 2012, gigi giving us her gorgeous smile and payton acting like she doesn’t care to pose.

did i mention how much i love their kids, too?

after our scrumptious dinner we ate my high caloric kahlua cheesecake and sipped on some dom for our east coast countdown which turned into us listening to gaga and creating our own countdown to entertain the kiddos.

we called it a night at ten, headed home, put our wee-ones to bed and fell asleep holding hands across payton’s body right before eleven. i wouldn’t change it for the world.

and just because this sums our relationship up to a tee!

(all pictures high jacked from tessa at www.grinandshareitphoto.com)


happy 2012!


oh! and did i mention that janelle started a blog? go read her two posts, become a follower and stay to see what she writes about, she’s pretty funny. plus, we have a goal to go to blogher ’12 in nyc.