January 13 - Happy New Year!

Happy (belated) New Year everyone! What is your 2017 resolution(s)? Here is a recap of mine for the last few years...

2010: finish master bathroom
2011: finish master bathroom
2012: finish master bathroom
2013: finish master bathroom
2014: finish master bathroom
2015: finish master bathroom
2016: finish master bathroom

And wouldn't you know, after 7 long years we finally...finished the master bathroom. Yahoo! We also finished the kids bathroom, replaced the roof and the upstairs AC unit. 2016 was the year of home repairs. To continue the theme..here is our goal for this year:

2017: replace downstairs AC unit (before the summer heat hits) and replace the fence

Can we get it done? Time will tell!!

Now that winter break is over, the kids are back at school and in their normal routine. Julia is swimming twice a week and now diving twice a week as well. I need to find tennis lessons for Luke and Jillian is busy being her adorable little self. Jillian and I traveled to Gainesville earlier this week for work and she was an absolute rockstar on the flights. I usually fly Southwest into Jacksonville and then drive 1.5h into Gainesville. This time around we flew Delta to Atlanta and then took another flight directly into Gainesville. On our first flight from Houston to Atlanta, one of my old swimming friends from high school and Emory was on our flight, sitting in front of us. How fun!! We haven't seen each other in almost 16 years. We stayed with Jill in Gainesville and Jill was amazing. She watched the baby for me while I was at work, and her kids had fun with baby J too. Jillian even hung out in Julia's (Jill's Julia) room while she was reading. How fun! 

Okay, I'm back in the swing of things this year and will be sure to update the blog more often. Sorry for the delay!