2011, already?!?!

I can’t believe it is already January again, and another new year has begun. It’s weird considering a huge majority of my day at work is scheduling meetings, people, events, everything on calendars, yet I am still surprised it’s already time to begin a new calendar year. January is always so exciting – the start of a new year and so many possibilities of what will happen in the coming year. Of course, every January I always resolve to start exercising and get in shape – notice I didn’t say get back in shape – that ship sailed about 9 years ago, ha! I am hoping this is the year I can stick with it – but that will be another post on another day.
January is a huge month for my family – we get to celebrate my sister’s birthday (8th), my dad’s birthday (10th), my brother’s birthday (18th) and my sweet little man’s birthday (26th)…my cousin also has a birthday (16th) in the middle of everyone else’s! All of these special birthdays definitely give me something to look forward to after the holidays and I cannot wait to celebrate with everyone! Mostly I can’t believe the my baby is turning 2 in a few measley weeks. Again, that is another post for later.

For New Year’s Eve we hung out at home and at the Fleenor’s house (pretty much home, they live right next door!) and got to spend the evening with the Horton/White/Fleenor family and it was perfect. We were so surprised that we stayed up until midnight – actually until about 1am which is a record for me and Luke nowadays. I don’t do it very often on this blog, but let’s take a little road trip/flashback to New Year’s Eve 2009. We were in South Padre staying at the beach and visiting my grandparents with my family and my little 11-month old Colin…what a difference a year makes, huh?

 It was actually on this trip last year that he took his first steps! Now I cannot get him to slow down – not that I want to – but maybe I do a little. 

Here he is one year later on New Year's Eve 2010...isn't he such a handsome little man?  Of course I am not biased or anything!

I don’t really have any specific resolutions for 2011; I have a lot of goals I hope to achieve but mainly I want to just keep enjoying my sweet husband and the best little boy I could ask for. I am so thankful for my little family and for my extended family as well. I hope that we all continue to enjoy good health and especially continue to enjoy our time together.