Another House Update

It has become a habit now to stop by the house almost on a daily basis to see if anything new has been done. Well, this past week they did alot. They added our marble to the bathroom counters, put in the master tub and shower, put in the boys tub and shower, and laid our tile! It's really coming together now and looking like a house. We are still being told that our move in date should be end of January/beginning of February. I hope nothing happens to delay it! In the photos below they still haven't put the grout between the tiles yet. Hopefully that will be this week. This is just a few snapshots of the tile in the areas that we have posted before.

Happy Birthday Jacob!

Saturday was Jacob's 2nd Birthday! He started it off by waking up at 6:00 a.m. He watched some Elmo, watched his bubba and daddy play Mario on Wii. He played with some of his Christmas presents, and then took a nap. When he woke up from his nap, he went to look at the new house being built, then he came home and had a small family birthday party. We sang Happy Birthday to him and had a cupcake with a number 2 candle in it. We each had a cupcake ourselves to eat with him. However, he did not want his big cupcake so he took a couple of our smaller ones. He apparently also only likes icing because he ate all the icing off all the cupcakes but wouldn't eat the actual cake part. Too funny.


























Then we cleaned up so Jacob could open his presents. Dexter even helped with the cleanup :)















Jacob had lots of practice opening presents over Christmas so he knew exactly what to do with those presents sitting there waiting for him. He is really into animals right now and naming them every time he sees them in pictures or while were driving. So, it was only fitting that for his birthday he got a little peoples farms complete with animals and sounds and also a tractor pulling hay and a cow. He loved it!


























So, overall, even though he didn't have a big celebration, he had what was most important: his family with him to celebrate a very special day. Happy Birthday Jacob! We love you!

Welcome 2010

We rang in the new year very quietly this year.. watching movies in our apartment and then going to bed 30 minutes later. Not very exciting to most, but just the way we like it. I have been looking at all my Facebook friends and seeing all the new resolutions for the new year and new decade and wonder, "What will I do this year?" I've always been really good at making new year resolutions. My downfall has always been keeping them. I find that when I make these resolutions, you know, the ones that we always make every year: lose weight, eat better, be a better person, etc, I quickly become discouraged and feel like a failure within a couple of days after snacking on some potato chips and by the end of January my resolutions are a thing of the past and long forgotten. So, I believe that I have come up with a new way of making resolutions that will keep me always striving to achieve, but not make me fall to the floor and curl up in a ball feeling like a failure. Some may look at this as a pessimistic way of making changes or a way to cheat in some way or another, but I look at it as being realistic. I have a family, a job, and projects going on that may sometimes require more attention on any given day or week. The kids or myself may be sick, work may be extra busy or stressful at times, my husband's work schedule or traveling may not permit me to get to some things. That's life and sometimes you just have to go with what life throws at you. So, having said this, here are some things that I will TRY to work on this year.

1. I will try to make better food choices for not only myself but for my family as well. However, because we are busy with school and work, I will not feel like a horrible wife and mom if we order pizza a couple times a month.

2. I will attempt to go to the gym at least 3 days a week but will be happy if I make it at least 10 days out of the month. However, I will also keep in mind that work, kids, and illness may get in the way so I will not cry and go eat an entire carton of ice cream if I don't make it 3 days a week. Even if I only make it 2 days a week or 8 days a month, it's still better than what I did this past year.

3. As for being a better person.... this has always been sort of vague. Who determines what makes a person better and who makes the call of whether or not you are better or worse than you were before? Is it being what other people want you to be and is that necessarily better for you or for others? And since we are human and are always changing with the world around us, I think that for me, knowing and admitting that I am an emotional person who is driven by my emotions will be a start. So, because I am emotional, I will try not to let my emotions make my decisions for me or let them make me a reactor to things in life. This does not mean that I have to start to become less emotional, but I will try to pause and let my brain and emotions compromise on what is best for me and my family. Sorry outside world... that may mean that I may not be the better for you.

4. I will remain an honest person, but will try not to be brutally honest :)

and lastly, since I don't want to overwhelm myself or others,

5. I will try to update my blog more consistently. I know I will not be an everyday poster, or even an every other day poster, but I will try to do it at least once a week, if life permits.

Happy New Year from the Kovar Family :)