Catching Up!

Where to even start?!?!? I can tell from the other blogs that I follow that everyone else is having a hard time keeping up these days too :). Now that the holidays are over I plan on keeping a better blog... So... let's see... Christmas was wonderful - we got more presents than we deserved and had a great 2wks spending lots of time with family. After Christmas Dave and I took the girls to Atlanta to visit with my Mom (Nana) and spend some of that lovely Christmas Moola. Dave got a new pair of tennis shoes and I got a pair of the new Sketchers - the Shape Ups. They are SO COOL. I started feeling the burn the first day I wore them, and I swear - in just a week I really don't feel my fat hiney jiggling as much. I set several New Year's Resolutions including: going to church more (we have been seriously slacking since I had Tatum), keeping the house cleaner (after a deep cleaning before we left for Atlanta I realized that I was going to have to do more "small" cleaning all week and month before things got out of hand again), loving on Dave more (with two little ones it is hard to focus on each other), and my hardest one - LOSING WEIGHT! I want to lose 50lbs this year, and I am really determined to do it. I want to be healthier and thinner :). Dave went back to work after a week off for Christmas to 1st shift ... thank you Jesus for answering my prayers on that one. He is working anywhere from 8-12hrs per day, anywhere from 5-7 days per week, and taking 6hrs of classes this semester. I have every confidence in him and am doing everything in my power to make life easier for him. When he is not working you can usually find him in Cadence's princess tent or holding Tatum. Seems like I love him more than ever when I see him with our girls - there's just something about a Daddy and his little girls that melts my heart. ♥ I am looking into taking a Dental Assisting Registration class this year... in TN you don't have to go for a full class if you are trained by a dentist, so hopefully it won't take me long and I'll be able to at least help with X-Rays (which is the only thing that I don't do now). Tatum will be going to the doc for her 4mo checkup soon and I'll post about that... if we don't have better luck with the pediatrician this time we will probably be looking for another one yet again. I don't even want to go into what I am mad about now, but it blows my mind that we can finally find not just one, but two, doctors that we really like only to realize that their office is SO poorly run that we want to look for another one! Drives me crazy! Anyway - here are a few pics... enjoy. ♥

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Cadence & Tatum in their matching outfits

Cadence playing with her new kitchen

Dave and Tatum fell asleep waiting for Santa

Tatum and Uncle Bob ♥

Going to play in the snow

Mommy and Cadence's footprints