I know I've said this time and time again, but I am seriously going to try and post more regularly so that one day when I get a little older I will be able to look back and laugh at some of these things or cry, or smile, or feel grateful for these times, especially in these years!! The past few months have been a little rough for our little family, but nonetheless, adventourous and busy as usual! We are still living in Las Vegas and Ryan and my brother-n-law started the pest control business out here. Ryan also got a job with At&T and has done well with that. Owen and Isabela started preschool this past September and love it MOST of the time. Jacobs thinks he should be able to join them too. Little does he know he still has a couple years to go till he leaves his mommy! :) Halloween was a blur. I can't even remember what the kids were for Halloween unless I take a minute to figure it out, or look at a picture.. haha!! We had a nice quiet Thanksgiving here in Vegas with Ryan's parents!! All I remember was that dinner was DELICIOUS.... or as Isabela would probably say, "It taste like delicious!!" It was a pretty relaxing holiday for us and we were glad we could spend it with family!!
December this year hit the Howes family pretty HARD!! We all ended up getting sick around Christmas time. THe kids got sick with the flu the week before Christmas, and lucky me got sick on CHRISTMAS DAY!! :( .. It stunk!) Luckily Ryan was there to save me... HE took over the kids and I got to sleep in all day after we opened presents at my mom and dad's place! We got back home and the kids were getting better and then BOOM!!!! IT hit us again!! I was likw.....REALLY??!!!! You have got to be joking. So as of tonight, we are still trying to recover from all these sicknesses!! Slowly but surely we are getting better, I just wish it would get better NOW!!
The start of a year is always so refreshing! I love it! We get to start off nice and FRESH.... CLEAN!!! I think we all make some goals for ourselves and some of those goals are always on the list year after year! But the beginning of the year is always so motivating and exciting!!
Here are some of our family goals for 2011:
1. Continue to do Family Home Evening on a weekly basis!
2. Read scriptures daily as a couple a:nd individually ( this one is on every year!)
3. Read the Book of Mormom for Young Women
4. Lose my pregnancy weight or at least get down to ___ lbs. ( Only I know that number :)
5. Have a better outloook on life and better attitude
6. Apply and start to take classes to finish my degree ( fingers crossed)
7. Make an effort to be more social and friendly to others
8. Read a book and put kids down by 9:00 pm.
9. Adding to our family of fivc... shh Ryan doesn't know thats one of my goals
10. Be happy and for what I have and RECOGNIZE it!!!!!
SO these are little details that are important for me at this time in my life and in my family's. Well at least this is what I feel will help our family and of course ME happpier!! I hope that we can accomplish this together as a family and have fun with it too! I know goals are not easy and require alot of work, prayer, and faith, but with all those things, we can accomplish GREAT things! I hope whoever reads this can understand this! I know my Heavenly Father loves me and with his help and my efforts, I can be happy! I just need to pray for his help and guidance and remeber to be patient or ask him to HELP me be patient!!
So 2011, here we come! We are ready and excited for what this year may bring to our family and are ready to take it on!!
