New Year's at Lukas and Sarah's 2013 --> 2014

Sarah and Lukas invited us over for brunch on New Years Day, which is also Lukas's real birthday (as opposed to the fake one we already celebrated).

Brunch in Lukas and Sarah's kitchen

They made a delicious spread of waffles, bacon, sausage, and fresh strawberries and bananas. We brought the mimosa fixings. I think it was more of a treat for us than them.

The Clous enjoying the New Year

Sarah letting James blow out the candles

James loves playing with Sarah and Lukas. They engineered some toy car speedway for him out of huge cardboard rolls and their furniture, and then showed him how to shoot the car out. Between the food and the playing, I'm pretty sure he just wanted to stay and live with them for a while.

Where did the car go?

The top of the track

Catching the car at the bottom

Happy birthday Lukas!

And Happy New Year! Yay 2014!

Sarah and Lukas's Birthdays 2013

Sarah has an early December birthday and Lukas has a New Year's Day birthday, so they split the difference and decided to celebrate mid-December. (I don't know why Kevin and I have never thought of that when we're only 3 weeks apart ourselves!)

Jon, Lukas, and Kevin at Mars in Astoria

We had dinner in their neighborhood in Astoria, at a new restaurant called Mars. The food was really good! The company was even better. Even though it snowed all day, not a single person cancelled. Their friends solidly love them!

Me and Sarah- I met her 7 years ago in December 2006!

Eye-ing the oysters

Still snowing after dinner!

Happy belated birthday, Sarah! Happy early birthday, Lukas! We're lucky to get to see you guys so much!