Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Sunday, January 6, 2013
this year I am going to learn to skateboard
2012 - a good year.
FAMILY
2012...
#1 most exciting event of 2012 - Elwood is here!!!
Lots of good family time, including two trips to Colorado and three visits by Laura!
Several trips to the springs and time camping
Coming in 2013...
Prioritize correctly and enjoy each other
Spend time with family and friends
Live frugally and pay of debt
Plan for new careers
Start (don't get excited yet) talking about #3
Lots of new babies to love (especially excited for Brian and Jess Jr. and Baby Cook #2)
CHRIS
2012
Two new jobs - Sysco Corporate Chef then J.J.'s
Lots of time underwater:
Broken wrist
Beer brewing
Coming in 2013
Being challenged and finding creative happiness and success in his new job
ANNIE
2012...
Learning, learning, learning
Happy, gentle, sweet, little girl
Joyful, loving daughter and sister
First ballet recital:
Made her own best school friends (Sofia and Hannah):
Super student:
Learned to skip:
Coming in 2013...
Kindergarten!!!! (why is that word so hard for me to spell?!)
Learning to read
Second dance recital
Playing some organized sport (I thought soccer but Annie told me that she "heard softball was for only girls" so she wants to play that.)
MAREN
2012...
Learned to walk and then run (I cannot get enough of Maren running with her flapping arms and cute little diaper-waddle ... it is the cutest thing I have every seen and I have a million videos of it):
Learned to communicate almost every need
Sweet, little, cuddle-girl who is so loved:
French braids for that long hair
Coming in 2013...
Expanding her vocabulary seven-fold and putting more words together
Sleeping in her bed, all night, without crying
Stopping nursing
ME
For some reason, it is more difficult to do a bullet point highlight of my year, but it has been a good one. Starting nursing school was obviously the biggest event of my 2012,and becoming a nurse will be my big event for 2013. I feel like my priorities are in the right place, and I am growing into a life I want to lead. This year, I want to make my home and myself more beautiful, show my husband he is loved, and grow spiritually. I'm excited to see what 2013 has in store for the Prevatts.
Oh, and I am going to learn to skateboard this year. Why the heck not?
Happy New Year.
FAMILY
2012...
#1 most exciting event of 2012 - Elwood is here!!!
Lots of good family time, including two trips to Colorado and three visits by Laura!
Several trips to the springs and time camping
Coming in 2013...
Prioritize correctly and enjoy each other
Spend time with family and friends
Live frugally and pay of debt
Plan for new careers
Start (don't get excited yet) talking about #3
Lots of new babies to love (especially excited for Brian and Jess Jr. and Baby Cook #2)
CHRIS
2012
Two new jobs - Sysco Corporate Chef then J.J.'s
Lots of time underwater:
Broken wrist
Beer brewing
Coming in 2013
Being challenged and finding creative happiness and success in his new job
ANNIE
2012...
Learning, learning, learning
Happy, gentle, sweet, little girl
Joyful, loving daughter and sister
First ballet recital:
Made her own best school friends (Sofia and Hannah):
Super student:
Learned to skip:
Coming in 2013...
Kindergarten!!!! (why is that word so hard for me to spell?!)
Learning to read
Second dance recital
Playing some organized sport (I thought soccer but Annie told me that she "heard softball was for only girls" so she wants to play that.)
MAREN
2012...
Learned to walk and then run (I cannot get enough of Maren running with her flapping arms and cute little diaper-waddle ... it is the cutest thing I have every seen and I have a million videos of it):
Learned to communicate almost every need
Sweet, little, cuddle-girl who is so loved:
French braids for that long hair
Coming in 2013...
Expanding her vocabulary seven-fold and putting more words together
Sleeping in her bed, all night, without crying
Stopping nursing
ME
For some reason, it is more difficult to do a bullet point highlight of my year, but it has been a good one. Starting nursing school was obviously the biggest event of my 2012,and becoming a nurse will be my big event for 2013. I feel like my priorities are in the right place, and I am growing into a life I want to lead. This year, I want to make my home and myself more beautiful, show my husband he is loved, and grow spiritually. I'm excited to see what 2013 has in store for the Prevatts.
Oh, and I am going to learn to skateboard this year. Why the heck not?
Friday, January 4, 2013
magical.
I am not generally the type of mom who overly mourns the passing of childhood. By that, I mean that I don't cry when I put the baby clothes away or think about them being teenagers. Every stage is different but great. Ya know? Maybe I will feel differently when I am on my last kid. If I even know it is my last kid. Who knows?
But Christmas.
How many more magical years will we get? Maybe four more with Annie, if we're lucky.
This year was magical. I was off from school for a month; and we played all day, went to the park, and took long walks every night to look for Christmas lights. Annie talked about Santa and reindeer and magic and was just so excited about everything. Annie sang every Christmas song and wanted me to record her singing them:
We had early and late Christmas with family. Meg, Con, Elwood, Michael, Tom, Cathy, Brian, and Jess were in town. We went to Annie's first Jaguar game where I got to hang out with fabulous friends whom I don't see enough.
All in all, it was a lovely Christmas.
Out on a light-finding adventure:
Pine cone craft-crazy (turned out great - thanks Pinterest!):
Cute little tree:
Annie and her BFF:
Two happy girls:
But Christmas.
How many more magical years will we get? Maybe four more with Annie, if we're lucky.
This year was magical. I was off from school for a month; and we played all day, went to the park, and took long walks every night to look for Christmas lights. Annie talked about Santa and reindeer and magic and was just so excited about everything. Annie sang every Christmas song and wanted me to record her singing them:
We had early and late Christmas with family. Meg, Con, Elwood, Michael, Tom, Cathy, Brian, and Jess were in town. We went to Annie's first Jaguar game where I got to hang out with fabulous friends whom I don't see enough.
All in all, it was a lovely Christmas.
Out on a light-finding adventure:
Pine cone craft-crazy (turned out great - thanks Pinterest!):
Cute little tree:
Annie and her BFF:
Two happy girls:
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