well hello blog..

happy 2010. this year i'm going to try to be a better blogger. if you noticed, i took a 3 month break from my blog. and i must say it felt pretty good. not that i don't like my blog. i do. i just needed a break. i started to feel the pressure. like, every time something new happened i needed to post it on my blog. i don't like pressure. i never have. just ask my mom. i felt the same pressure when i had a facebook...that's why i cancelled it. but i don't want to cancel the blog, i just needed a break. and i got it. and now i feel better. oh yes, and when i was taking a break, i found the solution to my problem. i am going to do shorter blogs, with less pictures, more regularly. that way i only have spend less than an hour uploading pictures, sorting them out, typing, and the reading my friends' blogs too. i will no longer dread having to do a looonng blog every 2 months. that will make it more enjoyable to me. and you. anyways... i'm annoying myself. here is my last long blog..

the past 3 months in a nutshell:

ANDY's BIRTHDAY!

andy turned 28 on november 29th.

Here are 5 reasons i am happy he was born (because i don't have time to list 28 reasons)

1. he doesn't lie. this is a blessing, and sometimes a curse. the truth can hurt.

2. he brushes his teeth a lot. some call it OCD; i call it good hygiene.

3. he likes to drive. this is good because i hate it.

4. he is my own personal weather man. he calls it a hobby; i call it OCD.

5. he brings me breakfast (cereal) in bed every morning.

We sent out another ugly Christmas Card

we are too cheap to hire a professional photographer, and we don't ever want to bug our friends to take pictures for us, so we set up our camera on top of the hood of 0ur car, with the automatic timer on. i have a pole sticking out of my head. as bad as this is, it's still a little bit better looking than last years. maybe next year will be a little better...and then a little better...and better.etc

MY BIRTHDAY!

i turned 24 on December 23rd. i feel like i aged 10 years in this last year.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

NORCO SLEEPOVER!

we had a tasty Christmas dinner with the demkes in norco. then we put the kids to bed and had a good old fashioned sleepover. we stayed up late, giggled and talked a lot about poo and farts (which andy is sort of an expert at). the next day we went on a little hike. i didn't think it was going to be as hard as it was. luckily, i didn't have to carry a 26 pound cohen in a backpack. it's times like this when i am grateful to be a girl.

HAPPY NEW YEARS!

we rang in the new year at our friends, james and leah. my dad came down to babysit cohen,

it was nice to be able to party with grown ups and not worry about cohen for once.

as i already said, my new years resolution is to blog more frequently. it's nice alone time, which i don't get very often, and i feel like i need it. andy told me his was to be more patient with cohen. which is a good one. i feel like that is what a resolution is supposed to be. a goal to make yourself a better person. andy told me that my resolution should be to be nicer to him.(i was being a grump at the time). so i guess that will be my other, non-selfish new years resolution...to be nicer to my husband. happy 2010!