A little update, a few reflections, no pictures…

No photos…our camera broke Christmas Day…we bought a new one and are still waiting on its arrival, hopefully any day now! We have taken pictures with the iPhone & iPad, but it’s not the same.

January is always an interesting month for me. There is a little post-Christmas-high-celebration let-down crossed with some relief that regular routines are about to commence…a sense of a fresh start….wonder at what the new year will bring…stuck in the thick of winter weather and the sun setting still too early…and this year planning Shepherd’s first birthday celebration.

Things have been pleasantly clam around our home. I have only worked Mondays & Tuesdays since the end of November and won’t throw in 2 Wednesdays a month until mid-February, which has been especially nice to have extra time to find adventure with Linden and Shepherd and to dominate my OCD cleaning & organizing to-dos during the 2-3 hr afternoon naps that both kiddos have been taking at the same time…I’ll enjoy that however long that lasts, amen!

Our community group (Life Group, Bible study group) has grown to more than 25 members so we are excited about multiplying the group and are looking at RC and I leading/hosting the multiplied group in the near future. It is exciting to watch God move in the lives of others through shared community.

Linden started a tumbling/gymnastics class on Thursday afternoons with one of her little girlfriends, Makenna. They had their first class last week and it goes until mid-March, which is perfect timing for it to end as we will be headed to Kansas for my Oma’s 80th b-day bash that my mom and I are planning. There are about 15 kiddos in the class and Linden had a blast, her highlight being that she walked off the balancing beam all by herself!

Shepherd is running everywhere these days! Linden loves playing hide & seek and has taught Shep how to hide, so this is his activity of choice. He gets so excited and breaks into laughter when you find him in his usual spot behind the floor-length curtains in the formal living room…you can’t help but smile at this little guy.

Some people have been asking if RC is traveling for work these days – nope, he is home and working at his usual office on a special project for what should be most of this year, which means no traveling  – hooray! Although, I will say that the one good thing of him traveling 1x month was that I would work in Shep’s baby book during the week he traveled and record things for the previous month…so Shep’s baby book is in awesome shape until about month 8 Still far superior to me starting Linden’s baby book when she was almost 2.

Our family is excited about 2012 and the new adventures it holds! RC keeps reminding me that we will have a 4-year-old & 1-year-old, and I will be entering my last year of my 20′s – ahhhhhhhhhhh………

But for now I celebrate that I have an 11 month old, a 3.5 year old and that I am a sweet, young 28

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