Jessica is now 14!!!

Jessica's bithday party. I baked the cake , but let her friends decorate it. It was a lot of fun. Her friends got a kick putting anything on it they wanted to.

Ashley and Jessica had their party together. They each took turns with their friends to decorate their birthday tree.

I finally downloaded pictures from my camera, all 556 of them. So hopefully over the next week or two I will be putting some of them on the blog. Some of these pictures I took, a lot of them the kids took.

We had a fantastic Christmas. Overall, it was relaxing and we had a lot of mornings we slept in. Eric was off work the whole time the kids were home and that was a lot of fun. I didn't make too many chocolates this year. Which meant we didn't gain as much weight this year as last year.

Our family goal this year is to be healthier as a family. I should say that this is not the kids goal, just Eric and mine. So we are having everyone get up at 5:30 each moning to excercise. We are also getting rid of a lot of the treats and snacks and actually I am cooking much smaller dishes for dinner. Instead of making dinner in a 9 by 13 pan I am making it in a 9 by 9 and adding fruits and vegtables. We are hoping that this last longer than a few weeks. If we could keep it up for a whole year, we would be in such great shape.