starting over

i am a terrible journaler. i am no good at taking time to sit and write, even about really important things. i started this blog last year to see if it would help me to keep a better record of our life and to keep family (who we don't see or talk to nearly enough) up to date on what's going on. did it work? was i motivated? nope. not even a little. i thought about posting all the time, but something always "got in the way". usually it was finding time to download and sift through the gigs of pictures i take of the girls. (write a post without pictures ?!? can't be done!) so here we are, nearly a year after my last post, starting over. i'm not going to promise that i'll post every day, or even every week, but i will at least try to hit the big, important, exciting, or too-funny-not-to-share events in our lives. so, without further adu: take two.