Happy New Year 2012!! I cannot believe I have not posted in well over a YEAR!!

And no wonder why.

The house: we have taken a ton of wallpaper down, painted almost every room, hung curtains, updated the kitchen, added onto the front porch, added a flowerbed, and are in the planning stages of the master bath renovation.








The first kid: Jaxon is 5 now, will be 6 in a few weeks and just started kindergarden!!! Jaxon's teacher has nothing but great things to say about him and we couldn't be prouder!! He is learning so much a loves it. He goes all day!! The first day of school when we left him we told him how much fun it was going to be, when I picked him up he jumped in the car and proclaimed "I did not have fun, Mom!!". With the insanely long wait picking him up, we let him start riding the bus and he LOVES it!! He played soccer this fall and last spring, he loved practice, but when it was time for the games every Saturday he would run in the other direction of the ball. So, this semester he is signed up for Hip Hop, will share those stories later. Jaxon also got glasses, he looks so cute in them :-)



The other kid: Annee is 2 1/2!!!! Seriously, where does the time go? AND such a girl!! So glad God blessed us with both!! Last year was her first year of school and absolutely adored Miss Cayla; we did too ;-) This year she is at a new school and loves all the kids and her 3 teachers. She is my little cuddle bunny and my night owl (especially when she has a nap). She is growing up way too fast, they both are!! She also started dance class... we are in a mommy and me class and I am having just as much fun!!



The mommy: Last year I started teaching the MDO at church and loved the 3-4 babies and this year so blessed to have Tiffany come in and help me, we normally have 7-9 babies and we are having so much fun!! We are going to add another day so we can focus on the older girls to have a true "pre-school" setting. And my business Style Reflections by Lynne Marie (http://stylereflectionsbylynnemarie.blogspot.com/) has kept me crazy busy. I cannot believe I have been in business for almost 2 years!! Style Reflections has been at Friend's Market Boutique in Guthrie, OK since then and for about 6 months I was at Feathered Nest Market, but didn't fair so well there. Style Reflections is thriving at Friend's Market and so blessed to be a part of such a great business!! I have great plans for 2012!! I took the kids to Ohio for 3 weeks this summer, we had a great time with Granny and Papa, the Arnolds and the Fellousizs, Aunt Claudell, Aunt Vickie and Uncle Jack. I also got to spend a fun filled evening at a mini high school reunion. And as most of you know, I am a Halloween freak and the past few Halloweens the church has had a trunk or treat, what a blast!! In 2010 we were Hansel and Gretel and the witch with the house made of candy and last year we made the car into a sushi roll (not showing in photo) and we were a Geisha and a Sumo wrestler.







The dad: Mark was having eye issues in the spring and went to the eye dr. Come to find out he had a torn retina, so had to have surgery. The surgery did not work and he had to have another surgery. He was down for several weeks. Mark was offered a sales position and he decided to accept (kind of hard to decline when the big bosses request him to move up:-) He has been very excited about the change. Santa's helper came dressed as Santa came a little early Christmas Eve to deem Mark an honorary elf, the kids got a new "park" and Mark put it together just a week ago... the kids LOVE it and the weather had been nice enough for them to play on it for several days!!



At the end of the summer we took a trip to Miami without the kids, which was wonderful!! We laid on the beach, ate at an incredible place in South Beach, snorkeled at the best place off Key Largo. It was too short, but already planning a trip down there again with or without the kids :-) The holidays were full of fun with many parties, Christmas Eve and Day with family and ringing in the New Year with the sweet Pyrons.