To end off the 2010!

I took a look back at all the hopes and plans I had wanted for our lives in the New Year for 2010 and most of it was centered around getting healthy and getting a life. Good news is 2010 brought a healthier and happier us!
I will continue to eat healthy and to workout as well as keep up with the social life. The trailer we bought in the summer was a great start to a social life and we enjoyed it all emmencely. We will continue to trailer in the summer months and in the off season we have filled our weekends with karaoke and small get togethers at the house. It has been great fun and good times. 2010 was the start of good times with good friends. Cant wait to see what 2011 has in store for us.

Some Christmas Faves

This year I totally forgot to pull out the camera, so my pics are all taken from those that remembered. Thank you Lindsay! :)We had a fantastic Christmas, the kids have been dolls handling all the late nights and parties like angels. It was a good one I must say but I am sure glad Christmas only comes once a year!

An eye opening experience

This year we (our family and Lisa's) decided we would sponsor a large family and put together a hamper for a family in need. We wanted our children to learn about giving and also to be grateful for what they do have.
We took all the kids out shopping to buy for the hamper, they gave input on foods that reminded them of Christmas and ideas for small gifts for each child.
We all loaded up upon delivery date to spread our good cheer and generosity to our family.
Firstly we were greeted by the 12 year old son, he tried to get his older siblings who were watching him to come to the door but I quote "they are to lazy to get up."
We brought our boxes in and left them in the kitchen. No one said thank you, no one bothered to greet us at the door, truth be told it was a huge eye opener.
Our children went away grateful that their life circumstances are no where near in comparison and us adults went away feeling very grateful that as parents we care enough about our kids to do everything in our power to love, protect and provide.

Today I lost a little piece of hope for humanity, how can people that ask and receive help be so inconsiderate that they cant even say thank you. It was a horrible experience it took me the entire day to shake the feeling of disgust, discouragement and fear that this world and humanity is going to hell in a hand basket.I wish this story had a happy ending but truth be told today I saw just a small piece of what some peoples life's are like and what innocent children are born into.
I suppose on the flip side I am grateful and get to experience a new appreciation for what I have and what I can provide for my children. I suppose I can say that I am lucky that up until now I have never been so up close and personal to what some people call their life and secondly I am so grateful that I am not raising my children in such an unloving, unconscious way.
It really was heartbreaking to think that their is a boy Brooklyn's age who lives in that house that smells of stale smoke and void of any feelings of love and care and he is being raised by absent parents and siblings "that are too lazy"! That is what is really tragic. I spent the whole day feeling so down that our gift and hard work went completely unappreciated but now I am grateful and compassionate to the fact that these people are in need of a bigger gift....or miracle. Tonight I will say a special prayer for that little boy and pray that he can grow up and get out of that pattern. I will also say a prayer of thanks that my life nor my children's life will never be like that.
Merry Christmas World!

Child Like Innocence

Well the best Christmas is upon us! Brooklyn is so excited, the kind of excited only a 3 year old can have. It is so special. We have been working on all our traditions, like the tree hunt, baking, decking the halls (as Brooklyn calls it) Letters to Santa, ect ect ect
I love this year and wish that this child like innocence and excitement could last forever and ever!

Even us adults have a little fun sometimes!

Couples Christmas Cookie Exchange Party of 2010, we had a blast, it was a huge sucess and hopefully a tradition!

Breaky with Santa!