Is it really 2012???

Hey there faithful blog followers! I appreciate your nudges for me to introduce the new blog year. Bear with me tonight because I'm going to cling to The Year of the Nest for just long enough to recap the last couple weeks of our year.

Ironically, we ended The Year of the Nest away from our nest. Owen, no longer stuck in the hospital for Christmas, was quite the travel buddy! We traveled to Austin where chasing around Fanny sufficiently wore him out....
...and then we flew to Alabama where Owen had some quality time (and matching pajamas) with his cousins:
After that we bee-bopped our way to Breckenridge where we brought in the New Year and Owen got his first taste of snow!

We LOVE getting such great time with family and our vacations were a blast! Minus the fact that somewhere along the way, I managed to collect a sinus infection, stomach bug and foot injury. But have no fear, I am on the up & up & by this time next week, I will have completed a whole entire marathon!
Aside from running a marathon (and just to make sure that Owen looks back at my blog and has ample make-fun-of-mom-material), I figure what better way to ring in the new year than with a cheesy poem?!! Haha what if I made it the year that everything has to rhyme? That would be a train wreck. Don't worry, I am not scheming anymore rhymes after this one:

Now we are home in our cozy nest.

2011 certainly was truly the best.

God sustained in every way,

From NICU life to O's first birthday.

One thing I learned from our sweet baby boy.

Is what it means to always have joy.

Each day I am greeted by dimples and cheer,

and each day I'm reminded that God is near.

I'm thankful for our healthy boy who is one,

and for what we learn as we raise our son.

The Year of the Nest gave us all time to grow,

so bring on the year of the...