Wow, That was Fast!

January is almost over, and I haven’t posted much.  I guess after last month, this month seems rather mundane.  Here are some highlights from the month:

• Hannah lost her two front teeth.  She actually lost her first one in Germany and the Tooth Fairy visited with a gift of Euros.  When we got home she found that her good friend Justin (he live across the street, and they are two weeks apart) had lost his as well.  They are too cute!

• I joined Weight Watchers (again) with several of my friends.  After two weeks, I have lost eight pounds.  Yea me!  It’s so much fun to do with a great group of friends, and with my competitive nature, it really helps to motivate me.  I just can’t let myself have a bad weigh-in with all of my friends.  I am a total dork, I know.  I hesitate posting about this, because I don’t want to repeat what I did last year.  But, like I said in my New Year’s post,  I am committed to post the good, bad and the ugly. 
• I helped to throw a baby shower for a friend of mine who had twin girls.  The shower was a ton of fun and a great opportunity to teach myself how to make a diaper cake.  I have always wanted to know how to make one, so after a few tutorials on YouTube, this is what I came up with.

• I had the opportunity to work on my photography skills with a good friend of mine.   She has a new little guy, and wanted some new pictures of the kiddos.  It was a little crazy to photograph four kids under the age of five, but I think I got some good stuff.  Here is a little peak.

End of Year Wrap-Up

Last year on January 1st I started my blog with this brief post…

It's the new year. Time to reflect on the past and look forward to the new year. My hope for this year is for simplicity and joy. If you know anything about me the simplicity thing will be a challenge. Along with everyone else I have dreams for good health (that's code for losing weight), financial prosperity (eliminating debt) and renewed spirituality (growing closer to my Father in Heaven.) Along the way I hope to have many adventures with my little women and my best friend and husband. I will do my best to chronicle it all and hopefully this time next year I will have told a wonderful story.

Well, 365 days and 108 post later, I think we have told an amazing story.  It’s filled with ups and downs, tragedy and triumphs, fabulous adventures and silly thoughts.  It has been one of my favorite things to do this year, an obsession really.  An obsession that I feel good about.  Every time I sit down to blog, I am so excited to record my family’s history for not only my current readers, but for future generations.  I can just picture my great, great granddaughter sitting down to read about my crazy life and my heart just melts.  What a way to connect with them. 

I am also grateful for the relationships that have been a result of this blog thing.  I have reconnected with old friends, made new friends and got to know existing friends even better. I have been able to share my life with family that's far away and vice versa.  It’s wonderful, I feel like I get to climb right into everyone's head and see what’s going on up there.  Things are said that would never come up in everyday conversation.

This year, I am committing to do the same, only better.  Lately, I have felt the pressure to blog only the good stuff, I don’t want anybody out there to see the messy details of my life.  But that’s wrong!  To be true to myself, I am not going to paint just a pretty picture, I am going to paint a real picture.  So buckle up, we are in for a bumpy ride!