Kurt accepted the job.....

he'll leave and start in a few weeks,

while the rest of us will stay here and finish school.

I have mixed emotions of course,

but

we've been thinking and talking about this for a long time

so, it's not like a surprise and a shock...

it's just weird that now it's reality!

I'm too overwhelmed to say anymore!

the great snowstorm of 2011...

So,

it rained and then there were a few pellets of sleet,

and then it SNOWED!!!

it's funny, how the whole city shuts down...

and after living here for 10 years,

so do I....

I'm not a bad weather girl!

'accumulation' scares me....

isn't that right, Jamie!?!

What in thee sam hail am

I going to do IF we move to Utah!!!!!

(which by the way, we will know tomorrow if we are!)

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What a difference a year makes....

my boy is growing.....

into a man child!!!

out takes from today....

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In the attempt to take family Christmas pictures this year,

it just didn't happen,.....

between my husband and two teenage daughters,

it's been impossible to be all together at the same time!

really.truly.impossible!

but,

today an hour before church was our only window of opportunity,

so,

I asked Arik (my 17 year old nephew) to just start snapping away,

and snap away he did!

After a cazillion pictures....

we did manage to get a handful of useable photos.

but,

between all the ones we can't use...

we had fun, and made some family memories...

long skirt....not so long skirt.

I'm glad we did bright colors cuz look at the lone and dreary world.

practicing for...................the one day................when their princes' will come!

enjoy a few of the many pictures that won't make the cut for

our 2011 New Year's card this year!!!

Thanks Arik!

a new year, a new word...1-1-11

Happy New Year!

2011 looks and sounds so futuristic to me, so space-agey!

it's weird to write it, huh?

but hey,

I find it so renewing to start a New Year, it refreshing, it's new, and it feels good,

something like; to clean the slate and start anew, something better, to try harder!

I've been thinking about my 'new word' for this year

and while I'm lying here and can't sleep.....

oh, because maybe someone is SNORING,

I'm thinking upon my word from last year....(which was only 3.5 hours ago)

but 'magical' was my word,

and looking back we did have some 'magical' moments in 2010....

I thought my mom chose a good word for this new year.

~reach out~

So,

my new word for 2011 will be

~Renew~

It all makes perfect sense in my head and it feels very calming to my heart,

cuz each new day will be new,

and I can be renewed, and start fresh,

and if the day before I wasn't perfect, which umm ya!

I won't beat myself up or sweat the small stuff,

I will just remember that with each new morning, there is a clean slate, a renewal...

a renew!!!

sounds good to me!

SOMEONE......IS STILL SNORING!!!

dang-it.

calm.magical.renew.