Epic Fail!

Sooooo, I seem to have gotten out of the art of blogging for a while! I am not going to make any promises to keep up with it as I can't make that kind of comittment!  Lots of changes since last April!!! Both of my children are doing great!!! Ava is taking tap and ballet and loves it! She is 100% diva, loves all things girly and has an attitude of a teen, I call her my three-nager.  Aiden is currently playing basketball and enjoying 3rd grade, he just turned 9 years old on Saturday!! Amazing, I feel like we just welcomed him to the world yesterday!  We celebrated by taking him and a few of his closest friends to Dave and Busters then they spent the night. The boys had a blast, for most is was their first official sleepover!  I am still working full time and trying to balance work, the kids and really working hard on getting back to my pre pregnancy weight with Ava!  I was doing really well last year then fell off the wagon a little so I am back at it and participating in an 8 week fitness challange with some friends! This is only week 1 but so far I am feeling great. Aside from just being exhausted from all the running!  Eating healthy means more trips to the grocery store and more food prep and cooking then add the trips to the gym and additional laundry from the gym, time adds up!!!! But it will be totally worth it in 8 weeks when I can look back and be proud of my results!  Chris is coaching Aiden's basketball team for the second year in a row. He is busy with work and traveling here and there for work.  I really can't complain, we are all doing well overall. My Mom and Dad are preparing to sell their home and move to Florida this spring.  My Dad is slowly progressing with his Alzheimers but we are working through it as a family.  It isn't easy and I wouldn't wish this awful disease on anyone.  I started attending a support group for people in their 20*30's and it's been nice meeting people who are dealing with the same issues with their parents. It's also not easy being over two hours away from them when I would like to be there to help. Having two little ones, one in school and a full time job doesn't allow me much time to travel :(  I did make a phone call in December to my sister, who I haven't spoken to in many years and we are now communicating and she has been a wonderful help to my Mom and Dad. She loves near them so it's going really well and I am thankful she is able to step in, sometimes we need to set aside our differences, pull up our big girl panties, get over it and move on!!! So I did, I did it for me, my family and mostly my Daddy!