Happy New Year 2012

Happy New Year from our family to yours!

I don't really do resolutions. But I am going to make some promises for this year so that I can become a better Christian, better wife and better mother.

I will read my bible daily and stay on top of my reading plan each day.
I will spend more time with my husband and children.
I will take more pictures of the kids.
I will blog more so that my children will be able to look back some day on their memories.
I won't sweat the small stuff (or at least try to).


Do you do New Year's Resolutions?

Happy New Year! I pray that each and every one of you have a blessed and wonderful year.

Happy New Year 2010!

Happy New Year everyone! O. M. G. It's 2010! When I was a kid, that number seemed so far off and makes me think of the Jetsons. It's amazing how quickly the days pass and as you get older, they go faster and faster. God, please grant my children the wisdom to believe me and Daddy when we say "stay a kid as long as you can."

We had a super fun new year. Party hats, noise makers, sparkling Cherry 7-Up and confetti. Yes, you read that right. Confetti. Real confetti. A dear family member (that I just recently meant yet I felt as if I've known her forever and she means the world to me) opened my eyes to realizing they are only kids once and long after the confetti is cleaned up, the kids, Jamie and I will just remember the fun we had and not the mess. Well maybe how much fun the mess was making.

I took a ton of pictures of the kids counting down and ringing in the new year with confetti flying all over my living room. For some dang reason, they were not on the camera. I really was crushed. I did get a few of them cheesing together though.



Jordan *drunk* from his Cherry 7-Up



Confetti angels!



Yes, I promptly vacuumed this up but I wasn't nearly annoyed with it as I thought I would be.



My precious babies ~ Jaylynn was fast asleep in her crib and didn't make it to midnight



Yup, that's more like it.



I don't do resolutions. I just strive to be a better person and do things better. This year, I just want to slow down, enjoy my children and chill out. I want to remember that the kids can't learn from their mistakes if they don't make any. I want to be a better blogger ~ if for no other reason than to make this online time capsule for the kids. I want to be offline more. I want to read more books with my kids (and some without). I want to learn to knit. I want to sew more. I just want to be a happy, healthy family more this year.

Happy New Year! May your 2010 be blessed, happy and healthy!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year 2009 from our family to yours!

We had a pretty boring and quiet evening. Our neighborhood lost power for almost 4 hours, starting around 6:30, because of high winds. Right in the middle of me making dinner! *sigh* I figured it would only be a few minutes. It's rare for us to lose power. My next door neighbor has been here for 15 or 20 years and that would have been either her 3rd or 4th time of losing power in all those years!

Flashlights out, candles lit and we sit and chat. The younger kids kept asking to do things that all required power. They didn't get why they needed to take a flashlight into the bathroom to use the potty. Oh they don't realize how good they have it and how electricity really is a luxury.

By 8, everyone was pretty hungry. Jamie sent me to McDonald's. Back home, we had a little picnic in the living room.

By 9, it was getting cold fast in the house. Eek! We figured if the kids piled in bed together to watch a movie on my laptop since it was fully charged, they would be nice and warm. We got them all set up. I walk into our bedroom and lights are on. Jamie heard the cable box click on and the power was back right before 10.

I ran into the boys' room where the kids were and turned the light on. The kids cheered, turned the TV on to find something to watch and told me to turn the lights off. Go figure!

After all of that, everyone just wanted to go to bed. Jordan was the only one to make it to midnight and fall asleep soon after. We are real party animals!

Goodbye 2006! Hello 2007!