2010 was a great year for us.  The year started off with Erin just finishing grad school and finally being able to 1) have a life and 2) work.  Oh yeah, and she was pregnant.

Our baby moon to Hawaii was a ton of fun and a vacation to remember.  It really is a beautiful place that I wouldn’t mind going back to.  Expensive, but beautiful.

In early March I was laid off from my job.  It sounds like a bad thing, but since I was probably going to quit when Isaac was born it actually worked out quite nicely (thank you unemployment!).  This allowed me to start pursuing my own company doing web design, graphic design and audio production.  While I didn’t get a ton of work in 2010 I did enough to spend a good amount of time with Isaac and 2011 is looking a lot better.

April and May saw us travel to Yorktown and Austin for our last visit before our little one was born and June Erin was “massively pregnant” and we just played the waiting game.

July was, obviously, a game changer.  Isaac was born on the 16th and the 29th was our 4 year anniversary.  Since then our world has been entirely about Isaac.  We’ve gone through some health scares (mastitis, flu) we’ve gone through a couple scares with Isaac (eating problems, weight gain issues) and a whole lot of good times.  It’s amazing just how much he’s brought into our lives.

As we usher 2011 in to our lives we look forward to another great year.  Friends have had babies, Barrett and Hunter are getting older and able to do more and more things with us and Isaac can do something new seemingly every day.  We’ve got memberships to the Houston Zoo and Children’s Museum that we’ll be using and Erin’s got a full compliment of vacation time to use.

I’m planning on launching a site (www.hangingwithdad.com) that’s a resource for stay-at-home-dads as well as a chronicle of what Isaac and I do together (similar to this blog but will have different stuff as well).  I also plan on starting up Getting Myself Fit as a way to keep me accountable for my fitness and also, potentially, a place for other people to join the forum and keep each other accountable or give tips they have for staying motivated during the down times.

As I mentioned earlier, my business (LoneStar Multimedia) is looking like it’s going to have a good year.  As the year turns I have a couple projects ready to start and a few in the negotiation stage.  Should keep me busy, especially when you tack on Isaac.

So here’s what I plan to do in 2011 that’s not weight related:

• I plan on playing the rest of the rugby season
• I plan to take Isaac to the zoo or museum at least once a month
• I plan on learning to carry him in the rucksack carry
• I plan to take him in the jogging stroller at least twice a week
• I plan to continue our morning walks (assuming it’s not too freezing)
• I plan to get the bike carrier when he gets to be a year old and use it
• I plan to launch Getting Myself Fit and Hanging with Dad by mid-January and keep them updated

There’s probably more but that’s all I can think of right now.  While we don’t have any big trips planned we’re open to people coming to visit , or moving to Houston (looking at you Kristin).