Two Thousand Ten Is Almost Over!

2010 is almost over... time to reflect.  We started the New Year mid-January with little Alexa’s first trip to Disney where we played at Magic Kingdom and Ebcot.  And I ran my first Disney half marathon race the same weekend.  Despite our frozen ears and toes in Orlando’s record low temperatures that weekend, we all had a great time.  Just two short months later, Alexa took her first steps and became an official walker… the milestones didn’t stop there.

Alexa turned one year old mid April and began speaking up a storm.  By the end of the year, we lost count of how many new words she was saying (or attempting to say), but we think it could be more than 200 words and she’s even putting two words together!  She learned her colors, shapes, letters, opposites, animals, some sign language, and the numbers 1-10 this year.  Her favorite color is yellow, her favorite shape is a star, she loves showing us the opposites “up” and “down”, her favorite animal changed from giraffe to lamb to we think cat or dog now, her favorite sign language signs are “more” and “I love you”, and her favorite number is the number 9.

George is still traveling extensively for work about 8+ months of the year.  On the long trips (longer than 1 or 2 months), we get to join him since I work as a Graphic Designer remotely and do Marketing for the same company.  Of course, little Alexa enjoys the benefits of the yacht profession lifestyle experiencing many different cultures.  Over the summer, we worked in Monaco, France, and Italy together as a family for a few months.  Alexa was quite the trooper and even picked up a little French along the way.  The plan is the same in 2011 for the summer in Antibes, France (and surrounding areas) for 4 months.

In addition to our Disney race weekend, we took a little 3-day family vacation this year while working in the Mediterranean… A road trip to the French Alps to hike in the mountains in Chamonix.  The scenery was breath taking and we even walked through a glacier.  We highly recommend going, summer or winter.  We were also able to spend a week in St. Tropez, France at a friend’s ocean front villa.  So nice.

Baby cousin Parker was born end of August and he's such a cutie pie.  We wish we lived closer and could see him and cousin Ava more often.

In my spare time, I raced a few more half marathon races for charity throughout the year with a PR of 1:54:41 in a 13.1 mile race in a hail storm in Texas.  I recently raced in the Palm Beach half marathon charity event earlier this month and plan to run a handful of half marathon races in 2011, maybe even a full marathon.  Alexa and I also participated in some charity event walks to raise money to save farm animals and also raise money for breast cancer research.  In addition, I have been working hard to finish my MBA degree in the evenings and I’m finishing out the 2010 year with only one more class to go before completing my MBA in Marketing and Communications Media Spring 2011.

In January 2011, our jobs are transferring us to the Caribbean where we will all be working and living until sometime in March.  While in the Caribbean, I plan to run a race or two in the islands; learn to kite board (finally); scuba diving as much as possible; practice my French; finish my last MBA class online; work for my graphic design, marketing and event planning job for Rybovich; learn a variety of other extra curricular activities I have on my “to do list”; join island mommy groups with Alexa; work on a variety of skills with Alexa; keep up with my blog, and of course we will all have as much fun as possible.  There is talk we may even be expecting baby number two in 2011, we shall see…