What a year!

As we all do, I've been reflecting on this last year and the events that have occurred for our family, lessons we've learned, and giving some thought on what we can do better this next year.

2010 brought:
- A scary time of unemployment
- A move to Utah
- Zane's first "real job"
- Another move back to Idaho, but getting to live in a "real" house with a yard (and garage!)  :)
- first soccer, t-ball, and basketball teams
- Princess in school all day!
- Zane's departure for Misery
- Many, many testaments to the tender mercies of the Lord.
- And of course, the highlight of our year was the birth of Baby Boy

I learned more about myself this year, and not all of it was pleasant.  But I'm grateful for a forgiving husband and children who loved me in spite of me.  I look forward to what this new year will bring.  I anticipate a career change and another move on the horizon, but what, where, and when will reveal themselves in time.  My husband will turn 30, I will lose another baby to school (*sigh*).  All of them will continue to grow and change in many different ways, as will I.

President Hinckley said in one of his closing remarks to General Conference, "Our faith will have been strengthened, our resolve fortified. Where we have felt defeated and beaten, I hope that a new courage has come into our lives. Where we have been wayward and indifferent, I hope that a spirit of repentance has taken hold of us. Where we have been unkind or mean and selfish, I hope that we have determined that we will change. All who walk in faith will have had that faith strengthened."  I feel like this is an appropriate statement to end my year and begin another.  I feel optimistic and hopeful of the changes that need to occur in my life.  There are many things I need to work on and I've learned a lot and I'm looking forward to what new things we will learn in the next 12 months.