LOOKING BACK AT 2010

Normally this time of year I am ready to kick off a new year with a fresh start and excited to see what the new year has in store for us .. however this year I am having a hard time letting 2010 go and believing that it is indeed 2011!!!

When thinking back on last year I cant help but stop and realize how incredibly blessed we are to have such an amazing family, friends and the simple fact that we are able to enjoy and do so much as a family with our 4 beautiful children who each amaze, entertain & test us in their own way every day!! I wanted to take a minute and reflect on some of my most favorite "moments" and "memories"(only to name a few) from last year:

• All the crazy vacations & outing's we have done, each fun, challenging & memorable in their own way!
• Trey starting kindergarten and stepping into a whole new world so confident & proud!
• Having my Mom and Normy finally move here after years of begging & pleading!!!
• The NIGHTLY pranks the boys play on me by putting lizards, snakes, spiders, etc ... under my pillow for me to find when I go to bed and how they are so excited the next morning to find out how bad it scared me!!
• Watching Rilyn grow up into the beautiful, awnry, bossy, sassy, determined, and at times mean yet sweet as ever little one year old she has become ... from learning to crawl and walk to feeding herself and now running around and beginning to talk!!
• When Rhett ask's me for "bacwone" (cologne) every time he gets ready!!
• The happy, anxious, excited feeling I get in my stomach on the day Clay is coming home from working out of town!!
• When I am driving and I look in the back seat and see Rhett holding Rilyn's hand and she is sound asleep!!
• Seeing Trey receive his 2nd place trophy at his first race. And the scared to death yet excited and proud feeling that I get in my stomach every time the boy's are out on the track racin'!!
• Sitting with Trey and listening to him read ME a book ... so awesome he started reading!!
• Tucking the kids into bed at night, scratching their back's & booty's, each one of them having their own little special thing: Charlotte always tells me "I love you a million times..plus 1", Trey "I love you around the whole wide world a million times" and Rhett "I love you all the way up to heaven and back" ... god only knows what Rilyn will come up with .. hahahahahaaa!!!!
• Clay and I celebrating our 6th anniversary in Havasu!!
• Rilyn's open mouth kisses and queezies (squeezes)!! We all enjoy these!!
• The kids before dinner prayers .... especially Rhett who always starts out with "Deew Lowrd"!!
• How brave & tuff Trey was after he broke his arm ... I will never forget when we found out he was going to have to have surgery and he looked up at me with those big ol blue eyes all welled up with tears and asked me "Momma how bad is it gonna hurt"!!
• When Rhett asked Trey if he could borrow his dreamcatcher to sleep with since Trey was going to be sleeping on the couch ... one of the sweetest things ever!!
• And last but not least (as I said this is just some of the many moments), simply watching the relationships that have formed between all our kids as they get older ... it always amazes me to sit and think about how different each and every one of them are yet they still mesh and get along so well ... for myself growing up in a very tight knit family and being very close to both my brother and my sister, I absolutely adore the bonds that they have formed amongst each other each unique in its own way .. and I always make a special point to remind them how lucky they are to have each other!!

Sooo all that being said and moving on to 2011 ... although I dont have any "New Years Resolutions" I do have plenty of "Goals" for the new year .... but to sum them all up ... my main mission for the year to come is to ..... SIMPLIFY my life in any and every way possible and hope for love, laughter & health!!!