2012?!!

I feel a lot of pressure - this my first entry of 2012, it should be amazing, but it probably won't be since I'm exhausted and can't even speak in complete sentences, let alone type in them. I am conducting a little experiment though. (okay, really it is just because I'm lazy, but an experiment sounds much more exciting!) my crazy cool husband bought me a crazy cool present for my 29th birthday. (yes, I know, one more year and I will officially be in old person. HA! If you don't think that is funny you are probably already an old person, but that's cool, we can still be friends!) I am now the proud new owner of an iPad of the which I totally love. For real, it is so fun. It is also sort of a genius and knows what I am trying to write most of the time. So here is the experiment. I will not be editing myself today (see, told ya, La-haaa-zy!) and we will see if I make any sense or turn to gibberish. One time I was typing an email to my sister and was so tired I had my fingers on all the wrong keys. Once I finally noticed I laughed so hard at what i had been writing I almost peed my pants - so I sent it that way just for fun. But now with my NATO Cheetos iPad I might be better off. (ummm.... Okay, that was supposed to be neeto cheeto, this might not work after all...)

So, for those of you wondering how life is in NC we are doing really well. We have had a very mild winter so I can't complain about that. We had a wonderful Christmas here at home, and almost made it to midnight on New Years. This past year has been filled with all the fun that comes with a new baby. But baby NayNay is growing up. He has all sorts of new tricks and is always running around after the big kids and terrorizing the dog. I'm not joking about the running either. Walking is no longer an acceptable form of transportation. He gets especially fast when trying to wrestle out of a diaper change and I have to run after him and scoop his naked body off the stairs a bazzillion times a day. He says mama and ball and up. Well, technically he says mama and ba-ha and Bup, which is even cuter. He loves to play chase, even with his clothes on and Kendall and Bryan can chase him around and around forever and he still wants to keep playing. Kendall and Bryan are so patient with him, it is no wonder he adores them. He gets so excited when they get in the car after school, it is so adorable. We are also keeping busy with things Other than the awesomeness that is baby palooza. Kendall just had her last gymnastics meet for her level three season and had another great day! Her beam routine is amazing, she is so fun to watch. Bryan just started swim lessons while he is waiting for the spring season of soccer. If you haven't seen Bryan swim you are missing out. He is fearless, always has been, but he frantically flails his arms and kicks his legs and pretty much looks like he is about to drown. For thirty straight minutes! And afterwards he climbs out of the water and exclaims, "momma, what's for dinner? I'm hungry!" yeah, I would be to if I swam like my life depended on it for half an hour. He's so silly. He has become quite the little reader. He blows me away with some of the words he can sound out now. I have started a few new adventures as well. I am still struggling to learn piano, but I can tell my practice is paying off and the notes I play sound more and more like actual songs. I am just keeping my fingers crossed that I won't have to play in sacrament meeting again for a while! And I also just starting working as an aqua aerobics instructed at the gym near our home. It has been a fun new challenge for me and I am really enjoying the friends I am making there. The majority of the class is over sixty years old, but there are a few that are only over fifty. And they are some of the nicest people I have met here and we get along swimmingly. (get it?! Haha, I made myself chuckle!)

Ethan is great! And as good looking and fun as ever. That's all I really have or can say about that. Speaking of, there is a good chance we will be making our blog private soon. I hate to do it, because I know a few of you like to sneak on and sneak back off without being noticed, and I dig that because I am the same way. But like the walrus said, The time has come. So when the switch happens please come with us. If I weren'tvso tired I would try to figure to get some of our fun videos up, but it will probably have to wait until next time, I am driving the carpool tomorrow and the other moms don't like it if we're late. Night friends.