Coop and Co. : Goodbye 2014.. It's been amazing!

This is our sixth New Year's together and our first with Cooper! In previous years, we have gone to my best friend Zibba's house and had a get together there and ended up staying the night so no one would have to drive. However, this year, since we had peanut at home, we decided we would have Grandma watch Cooper, we would go out to the city and come home after. We started off our New Years with an early dinner at this AMAZING french bistro, Mon Ami Gabi. We had never been before, but had a few Lettuce Entertain You gift cards so we made reservations at one of the only places that still had open tables on NYE. Turns out, it was a very smart decision! Both AJ and I had huge steaks which were literally mouth watering. I had a bowl of lobster bisque soup while Adam had there famous (no literally, famous) french onion soup, both of which were awesome. Our steaks came with these what resembled very thin cut steak fries that were almost chip-like. It was a strange combination to have this expensive piece of meat with fries, but oh-my-yummy-lord was it good! We both had left-overs to take home, which I enjoyed today for lunch. Equally delicious the second time around.

After dinner, we headed home, spent some more time with the little man and then started getting ready to go out. I amazingly managed to get ready and have time to get through Cooper's bedtime routine before we had to leave. Very impressive for me, as I am perpetually late, even more so after I had Cooper.

With the baby snoozing away, AJ & I headed downtown to meet up with Zibba, Sean, Aaron and Sean's parents (who pretty much partied as hard as we did). We went to Estate Ultra Bar and Yacht Club which was located right on the Chicago River, pretty cool. We were given drink tickets when we bought our tickets for the event and then the table Sean's parent's had reserved also came with a bottle and a bottle of champagne. A great time was had by all. Sent a text to my mom at midnight, having her give our baby a kiss for us. He was still up from having woken up at some point during the night, poor mom. We left shortly after midnight, hit up one more bar close to where we parked our car, helped some guy not kill himself or someone else or get a DUI by not letting him drive after he had passed out in his car and hit his head on the steering wheel. Thankfully his friend showed up after a few minutes of trying to convince this guy that driving in his state wasn't a good idea. Good times, good times. We then went back to Sean's, where our car was, used the bathroom, got some water, hung out with his ferret Dexter and headed home.

After getting some food, we came home to a still sleeping baby, THANK JESUS! We got to eat and sleep for about an hour before he woke up. Put him in bed with us, and we all went back to sleep for a few hours. All in all, it was a very successful evening.

2014 was such an amazing year for me and I am sad to see it go. We welcomed our precious baby boy into this world, I got engagement to my other half, and got into medical school. I can't wait to see what exciting endeavors 2015 has to bring. We cannot wait to watch Cooper continue to grow, are excited for our move, and ready to get as much wedding planning done as possible before we leave! Bring it on, 2015!

Disclaimer: I decided on a scandalous dress this year, because minus my belly stretch marks and little bit of extra belly skin I am feeling great post-baby & more poor girls have been all work and no play for the past 8 1/2 months and they deserved a night out!