Playing catch up.

Wow- talk about a blog that needs some love. No new posts since April??? For real?!?
Life has been busy in this house. Good busy, for the most part. My business has been busier than I'd ever thought- I'm thankful for that and have been having so much fun meeting new people, and seeing old friends time and again, watching their families grow.  My 'real' job(s) have been keeping me busy as well since I am there about every weekend too. During the week we are running, running, running. Ben is in pre-school 4 mornings. While he is there Luke and I hit up the gym (though he does so for social purposes lol- he is the social butterfly of the childwatch it seems!). Luke will be starting pre-school and soccer in the new year and I'm so excited for both! Though I also can't believe he is old enough to be able to do either :( I can't even begin to explain how fast the last 2 years have flown by. The weeks we spent in the hospital with him just waiting to bring him home seem like just yesterday, and at the same time a very distant memory. He is such a crazy kid now, full of personality!  My  boys keep me laughing for certain. Of course we have our moments like everyone else, there are days I have to really dig down deep and make myself try to see how lucky I am, how blessed, instead of my life's shortfalls. But then it is these moments when I realize how much I have that I just wish I could make life stop, or at least slow down, even for just a little while- because it is in these moments I realize how much I have to lose. I never thought I'd find myself quoting Taylor Swift (ha) but I heard her song 'Never Grow Up' the other day and it hit home in a way. I try so hard every day to take pictures in my mind of the little things- a goofy smile, a crazy dance, the way Luke runs pumping just one arm, the sound of little feet coming around the corner at a million miles an hour, the excitement when you walk into a room in the morning, the quiet moments, the loud ones, the hours spend at Target playing with the cave man toy. The ones we won't have a chance to relive. All these things, everything we have, will be gone one day.  Replaced with new times and new memories, children who have grown up, a family who is different but the same. I don't mean all this to be sad, but just a reminder! The days go by so quickly, I just want to remember to remember every moment. Sometimes it's so worth it to just let the to do list grow longer, to ignore the laundry, to not answer the phone, to close the computer, and to just be. Just enjoy every single moment.

Some pictures coming next, of course :)