2012

A belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, everyone!

 Eventually I'll stick to my word of being better at blogging..

We took a trip to Utah in December, I'll have to write a blog about that later because it takes forever to upload pictures from my phone onto here. When we came back I got a real tree for Christmas. (Flashes of a Christmas tree falling over on our brother Ryan came flooding back to me.) We went to a tree farm in Ohio and searched all over for this tree. It was perfect. Once we put it up, I had Adam attach it to the wall.. just in case... heh. There are a few things I'm pretty anal about, and one of them happens to be how I decorate a Christmas tree. Everything has to be just right, and in the same color theme. But when all is said and done, its a sight to see. If there is one thing I can do right, it's decorate a tree.

Christmas was nice, kind of hectic with lots of driving around, but filled with lots of activity. My sister and her husband came from Denmark, the first time in a few years, so it was nice to visit with them.

Now all the decorations are down, and I was looking forward to getting back to a more normal routine. Boy, have I been in for a bumpy ride... Not to be all Debbie Downer, but 2012 has started off pretty horribly. Just when I'm getting through/over one mishap, something else happens. I can not seem to catch a break. Car trouble, icy roads, toddler meltdowns and accidents, major tax mistakes, obnoxious clients that make me think I can't do my job, locking myself out of the house, stomach flu, switching day cares (I pick Lucy up one day and the owner had decided to cut her hair. Without even so much as a phone call to me. Without even saving the clippings. Without any valid reason. It was just her bangs, but still.. I pulled her out of there pretty quick. She is now going to the daycare at my gym, so far, so good.), and last but not least, unexplainable and unbearable rashes. I'm done with this year already!

Here is Lucy post daycare hair fiasco.. I tried fixing what I could but they were chopped pretty bad.

After all the daily mishaps and all is said and done, 

as long as I get a smile like this every day, I know I'll be okay. :)