I'm pretty sure we're still alive

I'll be honest, I've been avoiding this blog. You see, it's become quite a popular thing amongst "bloggers" (and I put that in quotes because I don't consider myself a blogger at all) to do a year-in-review-post of sorts. They put up pretty pictures and talk about how good the last year was to them. Guess what though? 2012 kinda sucked. As I looked through my folders of pictures, most of them were of the girls playing in a terribly messy living room with crazy hair, no pants, and the television blaring. Looking through the thousands and thousands of pictures (literally) made me feel like a terrible person, a terrible mother. This year has been hard and I feel like I let myself go a bit. I didn't take care of my marriage, kids, friendships, or house as much as I should have. It was kind of pitiful to look at. 

And so I didn't want to blog about it. But now it's a new year and I hope I have an evolving perspective on things. I have goals to be accomplished (which I've rocked so far, by the way) and things I'm going to focus on. I've got good feelings about 2013. I think there are some great things ins store for us and I definitely won't be missing 2012. 

And just because they're cute...

Lillian making dinosaur growls

  

and Sophie...just being Sophie.  

Here's to a new, exciting year!