Hello!

This is gonna be a hodge podge post tonight, but it is 11:45, I just got home from the gym a bit ago and am really tired, but wound up! LOL

I am still here, just have been busy!! All my Christmas stuff is down and in storage. I also reorganized and decluttered my Christmas corner in the storage room. It looks great!!! I will have to share a picture later. Franz and I just went through our office area in the basement today! It looks great too. I have some before and after pics. I will have to think about sharing those, the before pics are kinda embarrassing! LOL I also worked on our guest/scrapbook/junk room upstairs. It is rearranged and I created a little “school” area for Alex. He loves to sit and color and play with stickers there! I will share more about that later along with some pictures!!

I am really feeling good about this year! Our house is finally getting organized and my storage room (and most of the house)is almost decluttered totally! The way we have the rooms set up now is finally a way that I really enjoy! The only thing we’d like to do is paint a few rooms, but that is nothing major. We do have some major things to do, but that will come with time…and money of course!

Our finances are finally becoming a little less tight. Feeling really good about them too! We only have a little bit left on a credit card we have been working on for a while. Now, mind you this credit card wasn’t used to purchase random things…it paid for things like our van, Franz’s car and our roof! We have had 0% for the life of the card, but that balance was just hanging over our heads for so many years. We are almost there and it should be gone before Alex’s birthday!!!!! I can’t tell you how happy I am about that! I have also started taking Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University. Franz can’t come with because he has to teach his class, but I get the audio CD’s with my kit. I am really excited about this program, as I have heard some really great things about it!! The day we are debt free will be a great one for sure!!!

Weight loss. For some reason, I just feel super positive about it this year. The gym is one of my new favorite places. I really enjoy going there, and have ventured out from the wee morning hours to afternoon and evening times as well! Amazing!! I am doing really well with my eating, and have plenty of reasons to lose weight. My 30th birthday is in August, I am in Kendra’s wedding in January 2009, we are going on vacation to Seattle and I just need to get healthy!

One more thing I am excited about for this year is just watching Alex learn and grow. He is in such a great stage right now for learning. He wants to know everything. He is learning ABC’s and how to count and so much more!! It is so fun to watch him!!

Last but not least, I am excited this year to see what God has in store for our family!  I am excited to get closer to him through prayer and studying his word!  This has never been one of my strong points in the past, but I want to increase…little by little!! 

Well, that is all for now. I have spent most of the evening looking for hotels, flights, rental cars and so on…so I am beat! I should get my butt to bed, because I have a feeling my son will be up bright and early just because I went to bed after 10 p.m.

Have a great night!!!