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New Year's Week in Cleveland, Tennessee:

The last week of our United State's Christmas tour was at mom and dad's house in Cleveland!! We were so excited to see mom and dad, the grandparents, and Bleekie!! We had the best time and loved every minute of it. We did not want to get back on the flight to London and thought about staying and leaving everything we had in the UK, but the only thing that helped was knowing that Bleeker was coming back home with us after 6 months of separation. Mom and dad had been so great taking care of him and had fallen in love with him. We felt so bad taking him from them, but they wanted him to come with us as well - we just all love him so much!! Mom and dad were so great in Cleveland - they always go above and beyond. They had a huge New Year's Eve meal for us and then we opened Christmas presents, went shopping (our favorite past time!), went to the new Starbucks in Cleveland (that's right - Starbucks in Cleveland), hung out with the grandparents which we adore, and ate at the Bald Headed Bistro (our favorite place to eat). We also got to see a few people while in town like Sarah Hershman and Kara Laughlin while at Beckys (These are the sisters of Anna and Jeff our dear friends in NYC that we miss greatly), and Sarah Cantrell while coming out of the BHB. Cleveland is not the place where we see tons of people as most people we knew there have moved away from college so it was so nice to see these three. It was an amazing week and made me want to be closer to home in the future.

Brad