Happy New Year!

This year, Shawn and I celebrated New Year's Eve at home with Em.  Unfortunately, none of us even made it up close til midnight.  I think I made it until 10:30 before it was time for bed.  We had spent the day preparing to have my family over New Year's Day and by nighttime, we were all worn out!  Being pregnant this year, I really just had no desire to go out on New Year's Eve and thankfully, Shawn didn't either. 

New Year's Day, we hosted dinner for 20 of my family members.  It was my parents, brother's family, cousin's, Aunt, etc.  Pretty much everyone that we celebrated Christmas with.  Shawn smoked a brisket and pulled pork while I made broccoli salad, potato salad, coleslaw and beans for sides.  We always over-estimate on food and we had quite a bit left over.  We'll just be eating BBQ for the next few days.  It was lots of work preparing to host everyone, but it was fun wrapping up the holidays by having everyone over for dinner.

I hate to make New Year's resolutions because I never keep them.  However, my one from last year, I'd really like to carry over into this year.  As we start preparing for a new baby in the house, my goal is to organize everything.  The baby's room is full of junk that will need a new home and I'm hoping that will help motivate me to organize the rest of the house too.  We shall see.  Besides that, my goal is also to blog more.  As time consuming and tedious as it is sometimes, I know Em will love having these memories to look back on when she's older.  So each year, my goal is to post more than the previous year.  Other than that, I'm just looking forward to the rest of my pregnancy and then welcoming a new addition.  We took several trips in 2011 and had lots of household projects, but I think this year will be much quieter as we focus on the new baby.  But then again, you never know what the new year will bring!