Well 2011 is here and there's no turning back! Clinton and I made it through our first Christmas as a family...and we are exhausted! I think that we did pretty good with making the rounds to various family members while still enjoying some one-on-one time with our precious baby girl. Then the week after Christmas the road was our home, seeing various family members, some who had not even met her just yet! It was amusing to see her interact so wonderfully with new people.
New things that Kenzie is now doing:
1. She rolled over for the first time 12/18/10 (she now does this consistently but then gets mad when she's on her tummy)
2. She laughs out loud...sometimes she will just start laughing at anything! It's soooooo contagious!
3. We are currently working on trying to get her to crawl...but all she seems to be doing is face planting into the carpet...oh well!
So instead of doing resolutions Clinton and I went with goals.....I know it's basically the same thing but in my mind it sounds better. We have decided (with the help of looking at our finances with a professional) that our dream of getting a new house is going to be placed on the back burner for longer than we would like :( Silly college education-making us broker by the day! So we are now looking at maybe getting a new(er) vehicle. All of our cars are 10-15 years old, and while for the most part they run rather well, they do have some mileage on them and we just need a little more space with the baby and whatever the future holds with new babies. So we will keep working on the savings and keep working on paying down the credit cards...which we hope by the end of summer we will be almost completely paid off (at least two out of the three). Sometimes I am so glad to be an adult (NOT!) but with a little patience...which I am getting better at, and cutting back on always wanting to grab breakfast on my way to work versus making it at home and not going to starbucks and remembering to pack my lunch and with Clinton doing the same we will hopefully see more money going into savings and the dream of getting a newer car and eventually getting a newer house and paying off our debts will become a reality-not in 2011, maybe not even in 2012, but soon...our last goal is to be somewhere new before Mackenzie starts school...so here's to hoping that 2015 is our dreams come true year!
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