“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”

So here we are, in the middle of Jan, still trying to adjust to our new family life. So far things have been going good considering the large amount of lack of sleep that we've been experiencing. Briley is now a whopping 1 month old and is starting to settle down into some resemblance of a schedule (she's now actually awake sometimes during the day)! She is perfectly healthy and a happy baby the majority of the time and has brought so much joy to our family. Her older siblings absolutely adore her and have only shown the tiniest amount of jealousy and acting out. So our hopes and dreams are high for the year of 2011! This is going to be our catalyst year! The year our lives will really begin to take off and great things will be accomplished. I'm really STOKED!!! This year we will see the end of our debt, the begining of the end of my schooling, hopefully a trip to the temple to seal our family together FOREVER, the stability of staying in one place for longer then 9 months, the bittersweet excitment of sending two of our children off to school (well pre-school anyways), the starting up of Brandon's own business, and a bunch of other things we've been looking forward too. I'm going to learn how to coupon shop like a mad women in order to save us more money, the kids, and maybe daddy too, are going to learn how to swim this summer, and I've already been accepted at the Utah State University to start finishing up my nursing this summer as well. With all these big plans we know things might get crazy busy and uber stressful at times, but it will all be so worth it in the end. We'll be keeping our fingers permently crossed and eyes aimed towards heaven that this year is everything we hope it will be!