Re-Update!

For those of you who were following our previous blog, I apologize for making you come to a new one! I am not sure what happened to it. :( Sad day!

Anywho, It is a new year and a time for making those near-dreaded resolutions again. This year is going to be an exciting and crazy one for our little family. Carylon started sunbeams at church and will turn four in April, Madison just turned two last weekend and is growing like crazy, and in May we will be adding our first boy into the mix! Mr. Traydon will make his arrival mid-May sometime. We are excited. Mark's unit is starting their rotation for deployment this year so that will be a new and interesting bridge for us to cross when we get there. Luckily, it isn't until towards the end of the year so we have some time to prepare for that.

Today we had Madison's birthday party and I went to blog about it and share the pictures and I couldn't find my previous blog, so I figured, what a better way to start a new year that to just start a new blog. Okay, not really, I was pretty upset but what can you do? I am hoping to have our FHE go over our family goals for the year will let you know how that goes, in the meantime, I will cover some of my personal goals.

• Write more regularly in my personal journal and in the girls' childhood journals.
• Read and STUDY the scriptures to find more personal opportunity for revelations and answers to prayers.
• Spend more quality time with the girls (and boy) and not let myself get caught up in the "life crazies".
• Learn to stress less... Yes. I know the seriousness of this, as well as the near impossibility of it... It will be a work in progress I am sure!

Those are my big goals. I have more little goals that return year after year that WILL be accomplished eventually.

As far as an update on our family... for those that haven't been able to follow us for the past year, it has been a crazy one to say the least. We moved from Casper to Gillette, Mark attended Basic Combat Training, or Boot Camp, in Fort Sill, OK, we moved from Gillette to Newcastle, and then finally from Newcastle to Wright. Laci returned to school, then had to take more time off again due to Mark being gone and found it was a very good choice as this past six months on 2013 we WAY to crazy to have been successful in school. Carylon started pre-school and will return in September at a new school. Madison has grown and progressed much faster than Mom and Dad would like, but such is life, and now she has the opportunity to be a big sister too! We have had our ups, we have had our downs, and now we are more than ready to see what 2014 has in store for us. I am personally hoping for a little less adventure, but will take whatever comes our way. Hopefully I will even be able to do so with a smile on my face!

Here is to a brand new year, with much better job updating friends and family near and far as well as working on being a better version of me, and bringing our family even closer together!

I would LOVE to hear your goals for the year! Feel free to leave them in the comments. Let's all share ideas and maybe find some new goals we hadn't thought of! :)