My Promise To You

There are going to be so many changes in the coming year for our family and I want to make it the best year possible for the two of you. Hopefully daddy will get a promotion soon so we can move into a bigger house on post because what we have now is just way too small for us, there is absolutely no storage space and we have A LOT of stuff haha. I am hoping to get A LOT of school accomplished so I won't have much more to go since I have been doing this since 2005 and I am ready to be DONE!!

I plan to get Riley into some team activites since she will be THREE in Februaury (where have the past three years gone?!) I want to possibly do tball, dance, and a gymanstics class. As soon as Presley is able to walk I can sign her up for the mommy and me gymnastics class that I had Riley in when we lived in Germany.

And I am so excited to teach Riley some new things since next year she will be starting school *tear* so I want her to be as ready as I can help to be.

I have some promises that I would like to make for you all for 2012:

*I promise to be more patient ... even on the days I want to lay down and cry with you during temper tantrums

*I promise to explore outside more (I really do not enjoy being outdoors but I know y'all need it)

*I promise to be more outgoing when it comes to meeting people with children your ages

* I promise to continue trying to make healthy options in the way of food for our family

*I promise to make this the best year ever for you

Cute things said by Riley

Age 2 years 10 months: today Riley told my mom she has two friends at her house and when my mom asked her what their names are she said "Mommy and Phillip" (she rarely calls him daddy these days haha)

My plan for my blog

I started reading a blog about a year ago threedoodles.blogspot.com and I really liked what she did when she had finished her blogs for a certain period of time, she had the entire blog printed into a book with all the pictures from each of her posts and she is holding onto it for her daughter when she gets older. I loved this idea so much that I decided I am going to keep a blog for 2012 and try very hard to write in it everyday and add pictures from throughout that day into it as well, once 2012 has come to an end I would like to have two copies of the book printed so that Riley can have one and Presley can have the other. I currently scrapbook but I am back and forth between the digital version and the classic by hand version and I feel like this could be similar to a scrapbook but with more memories in writing :)

If people decide to follow my blog that would be great but honestly it is just here for my own records.