catch-up/ paris!

we safely returned to st. andrews last tuesday, after a month long stay in texas for the Christmas holidays. sadly, i was the world's laziest person and didn't take a single photo while we were there which i'm now seriously regretting (my bday, christmas, ivy's new kitchen and riding in her pink car, new year's in mexico, dad's bday, my neices, etc etc - nada!). oh well, my fault. it was wonderful, as always, to be home and hard to leave but we've jumped into the swing of things again and it feels good to be back. chorus started back on friday as did our fun pre-rehearsal dinners with the hays; kevin's membership to the st. andrew's golf club officially began which he's way too excited about - mainly because it's no girls allowed; we had a delicious dinner at our neighbors the taits, very scottish (but good!) ivy ate a dozen little sausages -yikes! i guess it's good protein. it's been a nice few days back and we're looking forward to the rest of the semester!

in the meantime, kevin is still on his crazy long winter break so we are spending some of it here in paris! we actually debated whether we even wanted to come or not right up until the last second. we had planned this way back in the summer and now that it's here we just weren't feeling up to it with jet-lag and a 1 1/2 year old who is on a weird sleeping schedule (by weird i mean horrible) and since we had just gotten back to st. andrews. but we sucked it up and jumped on the plane. to our surprise, we're really glad we did! it's been really fun, our apartment is cool (and super tiny) and we've eaten some très délicieux meals! only problem is, we've had some camera issues so no pics for the first few days. so here's a little bullet list (for the sake of my own records):

--lunch at cafe central, ivy's first meal in paris: pommes frites!

--sooo freezing cold, at least no rain or snow

--crazy delicious caprese pizza at romano's

--being impressed by/attracted to my husband's french

--perfect little french dinner at cafe constant (while ivy slept in her stroller!)

--dinner at auberge bressane: best french onion soup, bread & butter, ivy's first kiss (with our french waiter)

-- strolling & ($7) hot chocolate on the champs elysee

--nutella crepes on rue cler

--babe dvd on repeat in our itty bitty apartment

--field trip to the canon store in the 17th, leave broke

--fresh croissant au chocolate- yum!!

--best part has been enjoying all of this in our own little neighborhood, strolling around buying fresh juice and pastries, eating at local bistros, etc. it feels like a real parisian experience!

pics to come... hold your horses (gramma and gen!)