Looking Back

This was one of the best years of my life...other good things have happened, getting married, finding good jobs, graduating from college, but this one so far has been the best I can remember. Brandon and I thank God every day for the wonderful family he has given us and can't imagine our lives any different. 2006 was definitely a great year.

Christmas was so much fun this year, Timothy was a little grumpy (I think a certain over-excited 8 year old yelling, "Wake up! It's Christmas!" didn't exactly help) but once he got some food in his belly and got to rip some paper off the presents he was pretty fun. I think his Christmas present to Brandon and I was the four hour nap he took that afternoon. We got some good pictures though and we had so much fun.

Brandon's parents flew in that night and got in around 2 in the morning on Tuesday. They left today (Sunday) so we're busy relaxing today and getting the house back to normal. Brandon had to leave to go help move the HUGE desk that Santa brought for Tyler over to Heather's house so I've been relaxing by baking for tonight's party, doing laundry, and dishes.

Timothy has been a little grouchy lately, I think he might be working on some more teeth. He still sticks his tongue out at EVERYTHING and has started the whole separation anxiety thing. Any suggestions on surviving that? He's fine as long as I leave the room but if anyone else is there and I'm in there too he will only play with me, or he'll play fine and then just out of nowhere break down and cry and crawl over to me. It's sweet but a little tiring. I'm sure I'll miss it someday though, and want him to be close to me and just hold each other.

We're celebrating New Year's tonight at my parents' house like normal. We're just having a small group over this year, but everything else is the same, we'll still go out at midnight and bang on pots and pans to ring in the New Year! Brandon thinks it's a pretty stupid tradition, but we like it. I hope everyone else had a great 2006 and I hope 2007 will be even better. I think my resolutions will be to lose the 30 pounds I've been trying to lose for a while now, find a new job, and sometime around November or December of next year to be pregnant again! Hopefully all will go as planned!