Catching up!

Well Christmas is over, it has been a very busy couple of weeks! We had relatives come in from Boston to spend the Holidays with us. It was so great to see them, the kids and I had a great time. Christmas was great, I love Christmas time! I love the look on your kids faces when they wake up and see the tree! It makes my heart melt! We had a great time with family and friends on Christmas Eve, except poor Olivia puking all over the place. Darn those stomach bugs! Then we had family here for Christmas Day. It was great having both sets of Grandparents here to watch the kids open presents and for dinner! Poor Ava was next to get sick, all over her car seat coming back from Grandma's house. Then that night Maddie and Lizzie got the same stomach bug! I have never seen so much throw-up in my life! Thanks for a Hubby with a strong stomach! The boys never caught it yet, thank goodness! Knock on wood! TWICE!!! New Years Eve was fun, we had a quite night at home just us. The kiddos loved toasting in " special" glasses with their very own sparkling grape juice! I love those moments!

Kids are finally back to school! It was a very long winter break! It was nice having them home, but I was ready for them to go back. I was ready to get back into our daily routine!

The little girlie's turned 21 months old Friday! I can not believe in 3 months they will be 2! Its almost time to start planning their party! It amazes me how fast they have grown. They are little toddlers now! :( Its like in the past few weeks, they have matured so much. Now they are making sentences, and talking so much more! I love this age! I wish it would last way longer! But I am also looking forward to this next phase in my life.... The phase on no more nursing, no more pregnancies! I have spent the last pretty much 8 years either pregnant or nursing! That's, my whole married life! I asked my Hubby the other day if he remembers what I was like not being pregnant. With the girls, its like every milestone they hit, I have been cherishing it cause it will be the last time we go through that! I can not explain that feeling, it comes with so many different emotions! We are entering into a whole other chapter of our lives, raising and watching these 6 amazing kids we have been blessed with grow up. Our oldest is beginning his teenage years this year! I can not believe in 4 months I will be the mother of a 13 year old! Gosh they all grow up so fast!
As this new year begins, I know New Years resolutions (I feel) are so crazy to make but as January comes in I have found myself thinking of how I want to lose this " baby weight". I have been lugging it around for a while now, almost 9 years to be exact! Time for it to go. I think sometimes you get caught up in, oh I do not need to lose this I will be having another baby soon. I know I did! But not anymore! So here goes nothing! I feel like if I put it on here, I am committing to doing it, not just saying it!

Anyway..... My sweet Noah will be turning 7 on the 17Th! And I will be turning oh my goodness... YIKES 31, on the 19Th! I so remember when I used to think 30 was so old and so far away!