Up to Date

A while back I posted about all the things I needed and wanted to blog about and I'm trying so hard to catch up with them so I can get up to date and blog about our European Vacation.  Hope you're enjoying finding out basically everything that has gone on with our family the past few months all at one time.  Hang with me.  I'm on a mission and hope to have the rest of my list checked off in the next few days.  Miles has been sick and sleeping a bunch so I have a lot of down time to blog!  


- Summer 2012 Arkansas Trip (with family and friends)
- An engagement and a party
- Summer 2012 Lake Charles
- Brooklyn turned 6 months
- 2 year Saudiversary
- Gavin's 4th Birthday Party in Lake Charles
- Traveling Back to KSA
- Jetlag and a new bed
- Brooklyns nursery (since I never posted pics of it after we finished)
- Gavin turns 4
- Brooklyn turned 7 months-- crawling.. what!! what!!
- Day with friends- birthday parties
- Vacation Planning
- 1st day of school- Miles and Gavin
- 4 Going on 14-- a new Gavin and mommy's reactions
- Superhero Party
-House Organizing-- thanks to Pinterest and becoming OCD all of a sudden
- Bahrain

Wait, I have a blog?!!?

I don't remember the last time I've gone this long without blogging or with having so much time go between my posts.  I love blogging and I love the idea of sharing with family and friends what we're doing in our lives on this side of the world.  In a strange way, blogging helps me feel connected with people.

I've actually made a list of all the events, topics, and happenings that have taken place in the last few months that I have all intentions of sharing on the blog.  I'd love to have it all done in the next two weeks before our family vacation!!  Hmmm.. let's see if that happens.  Life has become extremely busy with 3 kids all on different schedules and having their own things going on... I feel like we're always going in a million different directions and when we're not busy, I'm determined to spend intentional time with our kids and my man and not on the computer!!  But, when I do have some down time, I get extremely overwhelmed with the idea of starting all these various blog posts and giving each one of them the "attention" they need!  We'll see how it goes!  Until then just know that all these things have happened and one day I'll post about them:

- Summer 2012 Arkansas Trip (with family and friends)
- An engagement and a party
- Summer 2012 Lake Charles
- Brooklyn turned 6 months
- 2 year Saudiversary
- Gavin's 4th Birthday Party in Lake Charles
- Traveling Back to KSA
- Jetlag and a new bed
- Brooklyns nursery (since I never posted pics of it after we finished)
- Gavin turns 4
- Brooklyn turned 7 months-- crawling.. what!! what!!
- Day with friends- birthday parties
- Vacation Planning
- 1st day of school- Miles and Gavin
- 4 Going on 14-- a new Gavin and mommy's reactions
- Superhero Party
-House Organizing-- thanks to Pinterest and becoming OCD all of a sudden
- Bahrain

Blog 2 Print

I'm so far behind on my posts, but I'm determined to keep up with what's been going on and am hoping to fit everything in before the end of the year.  Why? you ask?!

For my birthday, my best friend Steph took all my posts from the first year I started blogging and had it printed into a blog book.  It is amazing!  She used blog2print and had it professionally done.  Okay, so I got to help out a little, but it was so easy for both of us!!  All you have to do is type in your blog website address, choose what posts you want in the book based on dates, individual posts, or both, customize it if you wish, make a few selections for the outside cover and VOILA!  Simple!  I think I did it within an hour.    I was so excited about it, as soon as I sent her the link to my completed book, I started working on the next year of my blogging in 2010, made another book, called my mom and asked her to get the 2nd one for me for Christmas!  Hopefully Santa was tech savy and it's under the tree!?!??!  

I love having all those treasured memories in a book and reading some of the posts brought back many forgotten memories and experiences.  The book is awesome and I'm so grateful Steph thought of the idea!  There are tons of pictures showing Gavin from 6 months to his first birthday that it's almost like having a yearbook.  We even have pictures of Gavin and Cade that we now have forever.  I love that this book gives a more personal view of what was happening in our lives versus where a scrapbook would just be snapshots.

Anyways, I write all of that to say I'm very eager to try and keep up with the blog even more, to record life experiences as they happen, so we can continue printing blog books of each year of our lives.  I'm excited to imagine what we'll think about this season in our lives and the memories we get to reminiscence on in 10 years.  Should be fun and interesting!  

So go check it out.. try it.  Don't let it overwhelm you!  It's a great keepsaker and something you'll appreciate having years down the road!  

It's Been One Year!

It's been a year since I started blogging and I've enjoyed every minute of it.  It's been fun getting to share our lives with you all.  I hope that you've enjoyed being apart of it.  I'm looking forward to sharing many more fun times.