2011

Well, it's here. Too quickly 2010 slipped through my fingers. My babies will be 4 and 8 this year...how does that happen?
We have started the new year off. Matt has been kind of slow so far, but Branson pretty much shuts down for January and February. He should be getting busy again soon.
Bailee wasn't ready for Christmas vacation to be over, but none of us were! She is doing well in school. She was having a little trouble in math for awhile, but we spend some extra time on math and she is doing great. They do NWEA testing here 3 times throughout the year. Her scores from fall to December in math went up17 points, which is alot. She met her reading goals too, and is above average. She loves having her ears pierced. It makes her seem bigger somehow. She is doing more practicing on the new piano than she was before, so she is improving in that too. She weighs 45 lbs and is 42 inches tall. Gabriel is just growing, growing, growing! That kid is going to be as big as his sister soon! He weighs about 34 lbs I think. He is saying his ABC's and really trying to begin writing his letters. He is still into all things transportation, and he is enjoying building things now. Houses, boats, parking lots with legos and blocks.
I have 2 Tastefully Simple parties this month, which I am excited about. I am looking forward to growing my business this year. I have been working on getting things around here organized. I have made progress, but I have a long way to go. I have unpacked boxes that haven't seen the light of day in many moons, but there a still too many in the garage. The fact that Matt keeps mentioning that he needs to be able to use his garage seems to help motivate me! Plus I have some things I would like to focus on this year, and us all being organized will help. I have been trying to get rid of stuff too. We just have too much... we can let go of stuff. I am making responsibility charts this weekend for the kids. I have spent quite a bit of time coming up with ideas of ways to do this, and I am excited about the end result. We will see how that goes!
We actually have a little snow on the ground. Bailee missed 2 days this week for our 1/8-1/2 inch of snow. Its been very cold and now I'm ready for those 40's and 50's again. Someone blessed us with season passes to Silver Dollar City for the whole family for Christmas! We are thrilled! It opens back up during spring break, so we are all looking forward to spending a bunch of family time there this year. If anyone ever comes to visit it will be sooo much fun! We miss you all and look forward to seeing you in 2011!