Its a New Year...

2011 was filled with ups and downs as a whole but one thing it wasn’t – boring. Tim and I struggled a little in our marriage and are now doubling our efforts to bring it back together. We found that after having two little ones in two years it sure stresses out a relationship so we are trying to adapt to our new family and maintain that relationship that brought us together in the first place. So in our quest to find ourselves again, we have started going on little dates- nothing huge but without the kids. Tim’s Aunt Karla (who is way too nice) offers every so often to watch the girls and then he and I go out for a few hours. I keep forgetting just how nice it is to be alone with him. So if anyone is looking for an evening filled with the laughter of a few little girls please feel free to let me know and I will pencil you in- ha! The second goal for the Bronanders in 2012 is to get healthy in our minds and bodies. The hard one for us seems to be the bodies so the girls and I started going to the YMCA again and they are loving it. I haven’t been there in probably 6 months to do just a plain old workout. I was going regularly last spring and doing well but after Via had her incident it just stopped. I was afraid to leave her with anyone that Spring and then Summer hit which mean we could walk outside and hit the parks. I stayed busy this fall so really my weight maintained those months and I was pretty happy with it. However, I hopped on that scale with Katie in the basement and I am up 10 pounds from last march- time to hit the gym before it gets out of hand again. Damn you chocolate covered cherries (and all the other junk I ate the past few weeks- How I hate to love you). The girls are doing fairly well but Miss Bella is in the top of her age group as far as weight goes (not good) so we are going to watch it a little. And before you freak out- no we are not putting her on a diet. But we are hoping to watch what she is eating a little closer and I checked out some tumbling/ gym classes for her to try this spring… I think she will love it. Our minds are developing just fine so to keep that ball rolling the ladies and their father and I have started reading books when we wake up and when we go to bed- I don’t think there can really be too much story time. It is my way of evening out all the Sesame Street, Yogabagaba and Little Einstein’s they watch. Yes they watch too much TV- I will be the first to tell you that, but it’s always educational and that should could for something right? I hope? Well in my quest to try new things I am looking into story time at our local library. I have been nervous in the past because my girls are very poor sitters (imagine that) but it may be time to give it a try- I will definitely report back on that one. When my Dad was out in Phoenix over Thanksgiving my cousin’s son Zane (between the girls in age) was practicing his colors and numbers on a “Fire.” I have been hesitant to get the girls involved with electronics because I felt they were a little young. That was until this past weekend when our priest was mentioning that the 4K class was getting a brand new batch of iPads this week. First of all I didn’t know that 4 years new how to use iPads and 2^ndly they already wore out their first batch of them. I now got that sneaking feeling that I had when I found out that CDs were a thing of the past a few years ago… I am such an old lady!!! Get with the program Trina- MP3s are here to stay and personal tablets for toddlers are on their way (long sigh) I can get used to it I guess… for the children. So those are our goals as a family. We really have no resolutions because I feel like such a failure when I have not resolved anything- and by what time? It just gets confusing. So We Bronanders on Bader Street are setting goals for 2012 and working hard at them- some days harder than other but working towards them all the same. I guess our only resolution this year is to drink more water… we must get off this soda (even though it is delicious-harumph).