Top Ten from 2010

Because I usually forget my New Year's resolution before the end of January, I've decided to have monthly resolutions. Hopefully this new arrangement will work for my apparently limited attention span. January's resolution: Don't live for the weekends. After going back to work, I really began to relish my time at home (especially my weekends). I know there are an abundance of opportunities, precious moments and important relationships I have been missing out on because my mind was on my family. If anyone else wants to join me in the monthly resolutions or has some ideas of your own, just let me know.
2010 has been an incredible year at the Kirkpatrick's, so narrowing the list down to ten was quite the challenge.
Top Ten Moments of 2010

1. The birth of our son. I simply cannot describe how blessed and thankful we are to have our little John Thomas. It's virtually impossible for me to verbalize how much love we have for our lil bear, but let's just say it's unfathomably infinite.

2. We love our new family traditions and routines like the "bath time" dance, eating dinner together, morning cuddle time and baby kisses.

3. JT's first Christmas and the first Christmas where our families came to our house. Hopefully this will be a new tradition too.

4. Time spent with our families. Whether it was flying to Wisconsin, driving to west Tennessee or driving to North or South Carolina, it's always a treat to visit with everyone.

5. John Thomas' christening. May it be the first day of his lifelong walk with Christ.

6. Time spent with our closest friends. From Alabama and Texas to Colorado and Ohio, we hate being so far away from many of our friends but are thankful to have people in our lives that are so close in spite of the distance. Of course, our Tennessee friends are the ones that have to put up with us the most and can't imagine having a better group of people to share our lives with. One added bonus is that some of my closest girl friends also had babies this year, so JT already has playmates!

7. Traveling to the beach with our babe. Although he was only seven weeks old, he loved it and we can't wait to take him back when he'll actually get to frolic in the sand.

8. Celebrating our sixth anniversary. Jason is so much fun to share my life with.

9. We finally splurged on living room furniture. It's changed the way I feel in our home and I love it.

10. Our new deck and fire pit. I know during the Fall, we spent as much time inside as we did by the fire pit. Not to mention the added bonus of s'mores.

We built John Thomas' first blanket fort today and he thought it was the coolest thing ever. Did I mention we love all the fun family time? Happy new year to our friends and family and we hope that 2011 is filled with laughter and love.