A Vow to be better...

Seriously, I haven't posted since the end of November?  Really?  I guess the dates don't lie.  Well, life has been crazy.  It really has.  I think I just got overwhelmed with over committing myself, working on much needed skills with my children and being a wife and mom.  I'm, of course, quite disappointed in myself for not keeping up our family blog more.  It's important to me to have these memories so I need to be better about it.  Plus, it keeps family and friends informed about what's going on with us.

What's been going on?!

LOTS

We had a great Christmas with both sides of Dan and my family in town.  The kids had a blast with all of their cousins and are still talking about it. 

Dan was called as executive secretary and I got called as YW 2nd counselor at church and both have us quite busy and hardly seeing each other during the week.

The kids got involved in lots of play groups and co-ops which keep us busy.

I have a bigger house to clean and get overwhelmed easily... hence my not blogging so much.

My dad was diagnosed with stage III esophageal cancer... which sucks.  I won't be writing about it here but you can go read about it more at http://www.ahardacttoswallow.blogspot.com/.  All I will really say about it is that my dad is pretty great, even though it embarrasses me to say, I think he is cool.  I am still struggling with what I think is FAIR in life and if I am willing to accept any challenge that God throws my way, but I am getting there.  If you want more info, visit the cancer blog, this is my family blog so I won't be ranting away about cancer.

Dan is deeply involved in some training class and a big project at work... boo!

I am working on organizing pictures to post here soon.  As I was going through the pictures on the camera I noticed that Elise and Owen had both gotten a hold of the camera and took many pictures of each other and themselves.  Needless to say, we are going to have to have a talk about not taking pictures of body parts.  Sometimes with kids I just have to sigh and think to myself, "REALLY!?" 

Life is good.  My family makes me happy... I will blog tomorrow with lots of pictures.... PROMISE!