frustrated

So now that I am working full time, I was really looking forward to having today off.  No real plans.  Maybe shopping for the day.  Maybe a movie.  Who knows.  Then I was reminded that today was the day that the cheerleaders had to go to Oswego (30 min. away) at 2pm to play Bingo at an adult living facility.  Now, I don't have a problem with that activity.  It's just that Rachel can't drive so that means that any plans that we had today are over because I have to drive her to Oswego and then wait while she plays Bingo.  So instead of doing fun things I get to spend 2 and a half hours in the middle of the day trying to find something to do while I wait for her.  I guess I will grocery shop.  Not really high on my list of things that I wanted to do today.  And because we live so far away from everything, I can't really just go early to the mall because there isn't enough time.  Oh well.  Pity party for me! lol  Why do schools plan things on the kids day off?  Can someone explain this to me!

changes are coming!

Now that I'm working it seems I have less and less time to be blogging.

We have been getting soooooooooo much snow here lately!  I'm not complaining, I'm just saying!  In fact, December was a record amount of snow for this area!  And in light of that, my parents decided that they couldn't wait until after Christmas to go to Fl. so they abandoned us and left!  So we thought about our Christmas this year and how different it would be with just the 4 of us.  And it seemed kind of weird and lonely.  So, we decided to head on down to Fl to be with all of our family this year.  And I have to say, it was pretty wonderful.  We really didn't see our frineds this time just family.  It was such a nice treat for us all to be together on both sides.  That hasn't happened in years.  The sunshine wasn't too bad to see either!  Been missing it :)

These are a few pictures from Christmas Eve with Randy's family:
                                                     Brad, JT and Randy

Marissa, Rachel, and Jessica

the cousins

our family

the whole gang!

After we came back to the snow country, we made a huge decision!  We've decided to move back to Fl! I really never thought that that would happen.  First of all, when we left Fl the market was so high that I thought we could never afford to move back.  And really we love living here.  When people ask, it's hard to pinpoint the main reason.  I guess there really isn't just one reason why.  Like when we left Fl to move here it was beacuse of 4 hurricanes in one year! lol  Anyway, we came home and just felt like it was the right time for us to go back.  And life is too short to sit around and wait.  Our family is all there and AJ will be going to college there and the market is at an all time low and we could get a really good deal on a house.  So all that plays into our decision.  But ultimately, we just feel like Fl is home.  It is so beautiful here and we have great friends but there's no place like home!  So we put the house up for sale on Monday and we've had one family come and look so far.  We'll see what happens. 

AJ turned 18 in January!  I can hardly believe that!  I know we all think this but it just seems like yesterday that we brought him home.  And now he's going to be leaving us this year to go to college!  For his b'day he wanted a tattoo.  So he found one he liked and got it.

It's on the inside of his upper arm.  It says always family or family forever in Italian.  I really like how it turned out and I especially like that he picked something that means so much to all of us and is so important in life.  Your friends are there for a time but your family is always there.

We celebrated at PF Changs with Josiah and Eleonore.  Then on Sunday we went to Chili's and they boys went and got tattoos!

We will see what 2011 holds for us!  Looking forward to all that God has in store for our lives!