Celebrating our 7 year anniversary

We left Addie at home with Andy's parents to go dancing in LA at the Cicada Club.  It worked perfectly that they were having their dance on Dec. 30 so that we didn't have to drive on New Year's Eve; the dance even finished at 10:30 so we were able to be home at a reasonable time.

This was Addie's first attempt at bottle feeding, and it didn't start so well.  We tried it out the night before and the day of to make sure that she would eat.  She basically screamed the whole time and wasn't happy with the different things that we tried.  We sure were glad that Mary Beth knew several ways to try to make Addie eat, but none were overly successful.  Thankfully, Mary Beth called Cici who gave us more suggestions.  Finally, once the milk and bottle nipple were warm enough, the little girl was content to gulp down lots of milk.  GO TEAM!

We even had snow that day which made me nervous about the roads coming home late at night.  But it stopped snowing and the baby ate while we got ready and ate our dinner at home.  We jumped in the car, got to LA, and walked into a beautiful Art Deco building.  We had a nice time although the two dance floors were small and there were a lot of people.  We missed the large dance floors of DFW where there was room to be crazier on the dance floor (okay, Andy wants to be crazy; I want to have fun without drawing attention to ourselves).  It is hard to do much when you are hemmed in on all sides.  We really loved the dress code for the event though.  We were on the lower end of dressiness.  There were lots of tuxes and evening gowns; some people even came in full vintage clothing (including hats!!  I love a lovely lady's hat.)  You know that we were thinking we totally could have dressed up more.  We both love to get all gussied up, but we tone it down and still wind up being slightly overdressed most of the time.  Now we know that we can pull out all of the stops at the Cicada Club.  Hopefully we can find more places where that is the case.

Thanks Jimmy and Mary Beth (Jimbo and Marme) for watching Addie on our first night out!