Happy New Year 2012

Time to start the year once again and reflect on the year that has passed and look forward to new resolutions and new adventures of 2012!

2011 was a great year for us all!  We remained healthy and continue to stay afloat during the rough economic times.  We have a wonderful home and incredible family and friends who love us.  Our kids are growing and changing by the minute and constantly amaze us with their new accomplishments!  JoJo started Kindergarten and has made great progress and has many new friends.  Jacob is a straight A student who is thriving at school and made it to his school spelling bee.  And Jonathan made the 7th grade basketball team and is still on honor roll!  And all 3 have successfully progressed in their Karate...JoJo is an orange belt and both Jon and Jacob are Camo belts.

We also had a year of 'championship' events!  In the Spring- Jonathan's baseball team made it to the championship game!  Though they didn't win, they had a great time together!!  And in March, I took my team to Nationals and we won in both cheer and pom (dance drill)!  And Randy also had the thrill of a successful Rattlers season making it to the final game, but losing in the last 2 seconds.  A heart breaker!!!

Our business continues to grow.  We are thankful to have many clients and repeat clients and I am trying to learn to master social media and promote our business more.  We have done everything from rhinestoning to screen printing for teams, individuals, schools, businesses and sports bars!  We have our share of struggles and feel like we are always learning....but that is what its all about, right?

We also had the opportunity to travel as a family this year!  We have wonderful friends who have helped us with our accommodations and made it possible.  In April we went to Coronado and stayed for a week at the Nestor's condo.  We had a great time relaxing and hanging out at the beach!  Our favorite place to visit!!!  We also took a quick trip to LA to stay at Dana's apartment and visited Hollywood, Venice Beach and did Sea World too!  In November, for Randy's 40th, we also went to Coronado to stay with Ann and Jim Randal.  It was a great trip and so nice to get away without the kids.  And after Christmas, we took the kids to Disneyland for 3 days!  It was exhausting but a great time!!  We love to travel when we can and have great friends who make it possible for us!

As we move forward, we are hoping to travel to a new place this year and explore something new besides California!  We are also making a transition with the business and focusing on Rhinestone apparel.  I will continue to juggle coaching and Randy will work with the Rattlers once again.  We also hope to start some new traditions....Once a month dinners with family and doing more one on one time with each family member. I am going to try to be really good about sending out cards this year for family and friend birthdays and even send out cards just to let them know I care.  I will also take better care of myself this year by taking time for me, working out, eating better and Publish Postreading more.

Here's to an incredible year ahead!  Ready to make things happen!!!!!!!!!!