Tuesday, January 18, 2011

ending a year...and starting a new one

I can say that I am happy we made it through 2010 with a few things. Like...
Our house
Two Cars in our garage thanks to wonderful friends and great parents
Our Marriage is better than ever
Of Course the most darling baby girl Lena
The other three amazing kids living in this house
Great friendships
Steve's job (that comes with bi-weekly paychecks)
Can't forget great families
I could go on for awhile...

Even with all those great wonderful things I am glad it is over and we made it
There is such a great feeling that comes with a new year.  New beginnings and hopes for dreams and hard work to pay off, a chance to do it better than the last year, learn from the things that worked and work on the things that got forgotten.  And always...start the new year diet. 


First we will stick in a Halloween shot of the kids (sorry I don't know why its sideways)

We had a great Christmas and holidays.  I was so excited that my Christmas wrapping was done prior to Christmas eve so that I could have a good nights rest.  Well Regan stayed up until 1am then as she was going to sleep Lena woke up for the next 2 hours.  Then the boys woke up at 5am  we put a movie on in their rooms but we could hear them laughing and talking and they kept coming in and checking if it was time yet.  We finally got up at 7am.
my parents came over for present openings, and then breakfast with Ian and Kellies family.  After a short short nap we went to my parents for dinner.  I was beyond tired at that point.  We ate and left, came home and everyone crashed. 
I realized after it was over I was so tired I didn't even spend time pondering the true meaning of Christmas, I was just in survival mode.

For New Years we went and saw  a movie with the kids, then Regan had Maren and Shelby over for a sleepover,  We set our clocks ahead 2 hrs celebrated New Years with the boys at what they thought was midnight but was really 10o'clock.  We thought we had the girls fooled but they figured it out that we changed the clocks.  So we celebrated with them at the true Midnight hour.  Steve and I were in bed by 12:05 and out.  Regan and her friends went to Maren's in the morning for breakfast, then had a day of playing and fun.  They boys hung out with their friends and we just enjoyed the time with the family

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