Well, MY favorite part of the day was...

We have kind of made it a dinnertime tradition to go around the table and each of us tell what our favorite part of the day was. It is always fun to hear about everyone's day and it keeps us at the dinner table longer because no one can leave the table until everyone has had a chance to go. Since Steve and I take our sweet time to tell ours, everyone is finished eating before we finish our stories. It is really nice...no one runs off to play video games or watch tv :) So, yesterday since Steve was out of town we called him on our way home from church so we could all share and so the kids could tell daddy goodnight. It was pretty cool. We look forward to him coming home tomorrow night so we can sit around the table and return to tradition, even if it is just gonna be for the weekend.

So, Austin's favorite part of the day yesterday was guitar class, which kinda surprised me. He has been taking lessons for a few months now and has never once said it was his favorite part of the day. He catches on so quickly that he gets bored with it. Yesterday was a different story though...he learned how to play Iron Man and he was super-excited about it!

What a bummer

My intentions are good, I promise they are! It has been a busy couple of weeks around here. Today I was going to try to post another 2 page Tuesday, but all of my scrapbook stuff is at my friends house because I have been going over there to work on some pages with her, so I have nothing to share. I hope to be able to get something up next week.

Yesterday I was supposed to take a bus-load of cheerleaders to a basketball game and I was really looking forward to it. It would have been my first extra trip and would have paid very well. I was really bummed when I got a phone call to let me know the cheerleaders were not going :( Oh well, we had the missionaries over for dinner so it all worked out :)

resolution...

I know I have been a bad blogger...like really bad and I hope to correct that this year. I can't promise that I will be as consistant as I hope to be, but I will promise to get on as regularly as I can to update my blog. I hope to bring back the 2 page Tuesdays, and maybe throw in a flashback Friday here and there. So I guess while I am at it, I will just post my first Flashback Foto now. Every time I look at this picture it amazes me at how much the kids have grown and how much everyone has changed.

I hate to say it, but I have never been happier for a new year! 2009 was a really rough year. Now don't get me wrong, we did have a lot of good in 2009, but as far as a year goes, it was rough. Quick rundown of 2009...started off with me having surgery, kids running me ragged with baseball/softball, Steve lost his job (pretty rough) Towards the end of the year we were all just kind of running on empty.

It seemed things were starting to turn around when Steve was able to get some part time work with some friends from church (we are so very thankful for that) and I started a new job. It was a really hard decision to leave my last job considering he didn't have steady full time work, but it was passed time for me to move on. I love my new job, and although I make a little bit less now than before my stress levels are so low now, I don't come home crabby anymore (it was every day before) and I don't hurt everyday. I no longer wanna come right home and crawl into bed...ok...except for my occasional 8am nap! I feel like a completely different person now...I actually feel human again and not like some run down robot.

I enjoyed being in the primary presidency for the year and I now look forward to my time in my new calling as RS 1st counselor. I really like it (I'm only 2 weeks in right now)

So far 20-10 seems to be going in the right direction! I have my new calling and I love it, I have my new job and I love it, I have my family and friends and I live them too! Oh, and BTW Steve has a NEW JOB!!! and we are loving it!!! Well, the idea of it at least. He hasn't actually started yet, but he got the call the other day and will be going in Monday morning for the drug test and hopefully will now more of the details then. We do know that he will be starting on Feb 1st. He is going to be a Correctional Officer at the state prison in Bowling Green.