Happy New Year!!!!

Welcome 2011!!!! So many new, exciting and kinda scary things are upon this year.

Our first major event....Jordyn's arrival!!!! When people ask when I'm due, I can now officially say next month, although on the 16th I'll be 37 weeks and considered full term and she is MORE than welcome to arrive the 16th or later )as long as she's not late. lol). We are SO excited and ready to meet her. OK, well maybe not completely ready. I would like to finish washing her clothes, making our hospital bags and installing the car seat, all of which I hope to have done by the end of the week. I also have to find her a new coming home outfit since several people have told me the one I picked out will be too big for her. :( They should not put 0-3 months if it will not fit a baby when they are 0. LOL!!!

The saddest thing about her arrival is the fact that TJ won't be able to be there. I know there's nothing we can do, but I wish there was. I hate that he has to wait about a week to meet her. I don't know if reality has quite set in for him yet about her either. With him not being here, he doesn't really see any changes, other than me growing. And up until Christmas Day, he hadn't been able to feel her move. You could tell when it happened though, he thought it was pretty cool and I think maybe it set in just a little but not all the way. HAHA!!!

Dylan, on the other hand, is well aware of everything and extremely excited. Everytime we go to the store, he wants to get her something. He's always wanting to feel her move and every night he kisses and hugts my belly and tells her goodnight. I hope the excitement stays once she's here but I somehow get the feeling, that some of it will go away when he realizes just what having a little sister is like. LOL!!!

This coming weekend is my SC baby shower and I'm super excited. My friends, Tana and Brett, have been working really hard and I just know it's going to be awesome. I owe them big time.

Our next exciting event to happen is TJ coming home. He'll be home about 6-8 weeks after Jordyn is born and I'm so anxious to have him back. I know we see him every week, but it's not the same as having him home. Someone to watch a movie with, help me with anything I need, let me go to the store by myself (which you have NO idea how excited I am about that. lol) and all the other awesome reasons to have him here.

The scary part about that is though, is the unknown and what exactly we're going to do when he comes home. Hopefully he'll have a job lined up, which will make it all much easier and less stressfull but that unknown of what's beyond the Marine Corp is very scary to me. TJ seems OK about it, which helps me a lot. If he's scared, he's not showing it.

As for what's going to happen after that, we'll just have to wait and see, but with a new baby, home, job and lifestyle, I'm sure there will be enough to make 2011 fly by.

As for these resolutions everyone makes, I don't want to go too crazy on myself and set something that is unrealistic. I've decided to make two. Nothing too fancy or to difficult, but just something I would like to accomplish. My first one is to stay updated with this blog. I know what you're thinking. "You didn't do it last time you said it. What's different this time?" And honestly I don't know. I'm not saying I'll update everyday, but my goal is twice a month. Enough to let everyone know what's going on with us crazy Jacksons. Plus twice a month doesn't sound like too much. That's only 24 entries for the year. And here's the first. HEY! I'm already halfway done for the month of January! GO ME!!!!!

My second resolution is complete the 365 Photo Project. It's where you take a picture a day for the entire year. Last year, I didn't do so hot but I'm hoping this year will be easier. With Jordyn, I have decided I want to do a picture a day for her first year, so I can use a lot of these pictures together. Kind of like for 2 for 1 deal. Plus, Dylan is growing up so fast too. And I want to make sure we can treasure all those little things he does. And if I can follow through with it, it would be kinda cool to make a scrapbook for the kids highlighting what we've done throughout the year. Something they can look back on later. But that's getting WAY ahead of myself. I should just stick with taking the pictures first. LOL!!!!

So to kick off 2011 right here's the first picture of the year. I think it has become a new favorite of mine of Dylan.

I've been talking to Dylan about how when Jordyn is born we need to read stories to her and now that he's learning to read, he can help by reading to her too. This afternoon he came up to me and asked if he could read her a story today, so before bedtime, we sat down and I let him pick out a book and read it to her.