Happy New Year!

I am so grateful to be starting 2011! It is a year for endings and beginnings! I can't believe only 8 months until I sign out of the Army! I can't believe my babies are growing so fast! I can't believe we are looking at buying land and building a house! And in the country! I'm a suburb girl for sure, but I'm really excited about creating a home for our girls to grow up in! I'm excited that we'll have all of that land for Justin to hunt and to teach the girls to hunt and fish and ride four-wheelers and whatever else we want to do there! I am so ready to spend my days keeping my house and my lawn looking the way I want them to! I am so ready to spend my days taking my girls to dance classes and whatever they want! I'm so ready to be close to family; to become part of a community; to not have to worry about packing up and moving again! This year is going to bring about alot of changes, alot of expectations, and alot of stress! I pray that God provides for us in all that we need; strength, patience, guidance, strength :) I'm ready! But this Army stuff, toddler stuff, infant stuff, geographically single stuff, is just not working for me...it is exhausting. I'm sure I"m not the only one to have to deal with this or more, but it makes me tired! I miss my husband! I miss Tori (part-time evening nanny)! The good news is: my 20 years is almost finished!!!

Oh, and Jemma is rolling over! And Joss is getting so verbal! And her teacher told me to bring undies to school, and we'll try the real deal. She's confident that once she masters the undies at school, she'll run with it at home and everywhere else! I'm so excited at the prospect!