Bonne année 2014

Happy New Year!

I have been anxious to start blogging regularly again, and that is just what I plan to do now that we made it through the busy holiday season and our schedule has turned to normal this week!

We are so excited and are feeling so incredibly blessed to have another year of adventure ahead.  This life here is such a dream for me and we plan on fulfilling some of our travel dreams this year as well.  I will do better at blogging more often, so please subscribe or check back often to see what we are up to!

We celebrated the end of 2013 with a trip to Paris.  I love Paris.  Probably due to my French language and history studies in my younger years.  I've been many times and it never disappoints.  In fact, I think it's better every time I go.  I think of it mostly as a romantic city.  So, this trip was a bit different!  We took the Martins (Jeremy's parents) and the boys.

This was the Martins first time in Paris (Robert's first trip out of the USA!!).

We didn't attempt to see everything, but we were sure not to miss a few favorite sites such as La Tour Eiffel, Cathédrale Notre Dame (below), Louvre (from the impressive exterior) and Jardin des Tuileries.

After soaking in the 850 year old cathedral, we strolled through Saint Germain, maybe my favorite area of Paris past the cute cafés, fancy pâtissiers and Paris fashion to Jardin du Luxembourg.  It was a bit disappointing to see the gardens dormant for winter, but the kids playground that we came to find made up for that!  We played for almost 2 hours before we felt the first few drops of rain.

We managed to wake up to another dry day in Paris!  We headed to the Eiffel Tower and then rested our feet on a Seine River Cruise.

We enjoyed some quite good café food near Musée du Louvre where the boys (also first-timers in Paris) were thrilled to get some little Eiffel Tower souvenirs and we took lots of pictures!