A New Year

Every year, I set a series of New Year's resolutions.  In general, I probably keep about a third of them.  I probably give about a third of them a decent effort. The last third are probably broken by January 2nd.  Rather than go over all my successes and failures, I figured I just hit one of each....after all, in a year in which your son is born, all the little crap you do on a daily basis is really insignificant.

Biggest Miss -
I set out to take a little time each day to stretch. I'm horribly inflexible and I'm not getting any younger. So, how did I do on this resolution? Well, I can remember stretching roughly 3 times last year...once when the remote was juuuuust out of reach, once when the Oreos were on the top shelf, and once when I dropped my cell phone and it bounced under my car. As evidenced by my torn ACL, I apparently needed to stretch at least one more time. Oh well, I'm guessing this year will be better.


Biggest Hit -
I set a goal of reading 12 books last year. Now, for some of you, 12 books is a good summer reading list. For others (and you know who you are) this blog is the closest thing to a book you've read since high school. While I don't fall into either of those extremes, a book per month while having an infant in the house was not a given. So, how did I do? I just finished book #17 tonight...and no, none of them were 50 Shades of Grey.

I haven't finished my list of resolutions for this year. Considering it is after 9pm. on New Year's Eve, maybe I should consider putting "stop procrastinating" at the top of the list.

Surprise Concert

I happened to stumble upon Amelia performing in her room today. I tried to sneak up on her...and the lack of video and audio quality shows. ..

The Great Outdoors

There's nothing like a little time spent in the great outdoors...even if it is only 100 feet from the house.

Change of Plans

Well, we were supposed to be driving home tonight...and then we thought about how little we enjoyed the two extra hours on the way down when we had car trouble in the middle of our trip...and then Grandpa sweetened the stay-one-more-night deal by offering up roasting marshmallows and spending time in a tent in the back yard. There was little hope Amelia was going to let us leave after that.

Good Day

Amelia and Everett celebrated their third Christmas of the year today.  We're down at Grandma and Grandpa's, so this included opening gifts, shooting bb guns, climbing treehouses, and looking for deer tracks. Everett even took his first step in honor of the day (and promptly fell). I'm not sure what's on the agenda for tomorrow, but it has quite a bit to live up to.

Christmas Pictures

For the most part, I think the kids enjoyed their Christmas presents. If nothing else, they enjoyed making a mess.

The aftermath

Ev enjoyed his train...

...and then he tried to ride it standing up 

Amelia making "ice cream"

Easy Bake Oven cupcakes...that look like uncooked hamburger patties

Merry Christmas

In case you are really bored, or are a part of my family, here are a few videos of how our Christmas morning went.