New Years Resolutions

So a little late but I wanted to make sure I wrote these all down so I can reflect at the end of the year. I'm hoping to stick to them this time.

#1 My biggest goal is to lose weight. It's no secret that I don't look like I use to look. I gained almost 100 lbs with Jacob, 30 lbs with Logan and 19lbs with Emmie so thats a lot of pounds. So my mini goals is 35lbs by my Matilda Jane shopping spree in June and then 55lbs by Christmas.

#2 I need to organize my life! I've got so much stuff in this house and I can't take it. I have high anxiety and all of these boxes and boxes don't help!
#3 Play with my kids more. Simple as that, take a break to enjoy life with my kids!

#4 Cook more. I cook dinner almost every night but I'd like to expand my cooking skills. Stay tuned for that

#5 Sew sew sew! On that note I leave you with my newest creation. Not hard to make by any means, but a lot of work for me :)

If I die young....

I've had that stinkin song in my head all day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw8W6hYGZ0E

Today I went to a funeral. This was an extremely sad funeral because it was for a 12 year old little boy. A friend of mines son passed away on Tuesday. He had asthma bad, went into cardiac arrest and died in his mother's arms.

This situation has drained me. I find myself crying constantly for my friend. I cannot imagine how she must feel. The night we went up to the hospital she looked so tired. I couldn't stop crying. I had to walk out of the room numerous times. I tried to be strong for her, but all I could think about were my own kids.

Today was the funeral and she was calm. She had color back to her face and even was smiling! She made a speech and told everyone that although this was hard on her and her family, her son had asthma for 12 years and struggled everyday and she felt at peace to know that he was in heaven feeling no pain.

I have been hugging my babies extra tight the past week and trying to make sure that I'm not sweating the small stuff. Life is so short. Look at my little family. I feel like just yesterday I was bringing my brand new baby boy home and here we are with 3 kids, one about to be 3, one about to be 5 and the other about to be 1 already.

So please kiss your babies, kiss your husband, don't go to bed mad, make sure you take that extra 5 minutes at night to read them a story. When they are bugging you all day to play the silly and messy Elephfun game, PLAY it. Because you truly never know when it's your time.

2011

I'm trying to get back into this whole blog thing, so bare with me as I'm trying to make it over as well. I use to be really good at writing in this all the time, then I had Emmerson ;)

Not only that but I started my own business so things have been very busy around here!

I guess this first post will just be an update on the kids :)

Let's start with Jacob. Jacob is 4 1/2 and is already talking about kindergarten like crazy :( We've been getting flyers in the mail almost every day with invitations about open houses so I guess it's time. It gives me panic attacks to think about him being away from me all day. I keep asking him if he wants to stay at his preschool one more year so he can go to school with Logan and he says "nope I'm ready for kindergarten"

Logan has hit the terrible 3's a couple weeks early. It's been extremely difficult around here with sharing and going to bed. I've said this before but he was born the middle child :) His birthday is around the corner and he has requested a scooby doo birthday :)

Emmerson...oh Emmerson. She is almost 10 months old and has been walking since the day she turned 9 months old. Brad and I always call her little diva and she holds up to that name. Everyone warned me how different girls and boys were as babies. Now I believe it. If the girl doesn't get what she wants, she falls flat on the floor and bangs her head into the floor and screams. It's hilarious almost. It's a preview of her teenage years and it scares Brad and I to death :)

As of now I'm enjoying life with my 3 little monkeys and trying to get through all the craziness! I'm hoping I can really come back to blogging again!