2009

We welcomed 2009 in Colo with family and fun. We celebrated our Christmas with the extended Peakin family earlier in the evening and then stayed up to welcome in the new year! It was a fun night...pretty low key in comparison to many past New Years Eves, but I didn't miss the crazy partying at all!

We are ready for 2009...READY! It will be a year of exciting change for our family. 2008 was rough, we are happy it's over. Though it was rough, we also were so blessed. Tate is a blessing to us every single day. Oh how grateful we are to be his parents! It's just been hard to not get to spend every moment with him. From Sean being so busy with work and school and me going back to work full time...it was such a difficult adjustment. We made it though. Only 4 months to go of school for Sean! :)

I don't know that either of us have been more happy to end a year and begin a new one. It's going to be a difficult 4 months ahead of us with an extra busy final semester of nursing school for Sean, but we finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. It's only 4 months and then life will be much different for us.

Mostly for 2009, we are hoping and praying for health and happiness for us and our families. With Tate's upcoming surgery to have his tonsils and adenoids taken out, I have been so nervous. I just feel sick every time I think about it. Hopefully this will make him so much more happy and comfortable than he has been for a long time. He has really been struggling this last month especially...his sleep apnea has gotten so much worse, his drooling, his sleeping...it's all been going downhill these last few weeks. These last few days he has been waking up and crying more than once in the nights, he usually goes back to sleep after a few minutes, but this interrupted sleep is not agreeing with him. We have one tired boy. Please pray for him, for the surgery to go smoothly, for the doctors and nurses who will be caring for him during and after the surgery and I would appreciate prayers for my nerves too. I don't know why I am so sick about this, I know it's a "simple procedure" as far as surgeries go, but he is my baby and I just didn't want him to have to have surgery, especially not at 2 years old! January 13th is the surgery, only a little over a week away. I can't wait for it to be over!

So Happy New Year to everyone! We hope your 2009 is blessed!