New Year, New Me

I told you it would be awhile until my next post didn't I?  I'm actually surprised that I'm getting through all of my catching up and it's still the first week of January!  It was a very busy holiday season to say the least.  We were in Kansas for 4 days over Christmas, then came home so that I could work my one day on Thursday, then I flew out to spend the New Years in MN and do a late Christmas with my family.  It's hard to believe that I actually fit 3 states into less than 2 weeks.  Go me! :)

My number one priority was making sure that I got so see lots of family while I was home for the holidays.  I haven't seen my in-laws in almost a year and I missed them so much.  They absolutely loved getting to spend so much time with Logan.  They almost didn't let us take him home with us!  Then again I could say the same for my family.  Both of my parents got to spend lots of quality time with the little man and they couldn't believe how much he'd grown in just 4 months.  More than anything, I'm so happy that he got to squeeze in some much needed play time with his favorite cousin Ava!  They seriously are each other's favorite toy when they get together.  I know Logan misses her already, and Auntie says that Ava keeps looking for him around the house.  I'm sure we'll be getting them back together soon enough, though.

My second priority was to see friends!  While in Kansas I finaly got to see one of my best friends, Alison, who I haven't seen in over 2 years!  We used to work together at VS in St.Cloud and have seemed to live very similar lives thus far.  She is actually in labor as I'm typing this and I can't wait to finaly see pictures of little Mason! Side note:: just realized that all of my pictures of Alison and I were lost when my old computer died :(.

When I was in MN I met up with another long lost friend of mine from my Ridgewater days, Aleesha!  We also haven't seen eachother for about 2 1/2 years (the last time I seen her was actually her wedding, which just happened to be 4 days after my secret wedding hehe)!  We met up for coffee and 30 minutes turned into almost 4 hours before we knew it!  We could have sat there all day catching up, but it was still so good to see her.  I also got to quickly see one of my favorite girlfriends, Nicole, while I was home.  Unfortunately we didn't get to see eachother for very long since she was on her way to run errands with her other half, and I was about to leave for my dads.  Either way, it felt so good to be able to give her a hug and see her face to face. 

(Me, Charlie, and Aleesha a long time ago in Cloudy town)

 

(Nicole and I in 2009)

It's no secret that great friends are hard to come by.  I've learned this the hard way more than once.  This year I've decided to make one of my New Year's resolutions(more on those later) to make sure I keep in touch with all of my friends no matter how busy we are.  This means all of them.  I've had some friendships in the past few years that have fallen off the cliff because neither of us felt we had enough time in our crazy lives to keep it going.  I want to make sure that my friends know that I appreciate them and that I haven't forgotten about them.  I hope that they'll all be as happy and willing to try and make things work again as I am. 

Well, after all of that traveling I've gotten kicked in the butt with one angry cold so I think I'm going to grab my box of Kleenex and bag of Halls cough drops and call it a night.  Take care and I hope everyone is having a Happy New Year!!!