What will my life be like in 2014? Wow, well I’ll be Mrs. Riccioli and my son gavin will be a riccioli as well. My son gavin will be twelve and my daughter elise will be six years old. Ugh… I’ll be thirty-four. Well, joe will always be younger then me, he’ll keep me young. I can’t believe that’s only five years away. So much can happen in five years. It’s exciting and scary to think about. I hope the time doesn’t go by too fast.

Hopefully in five years we will have bought our house in hampton. I definetly would like to stay in hampton to be close to the beach, and so the kids can stay in the hampton school district. If we have our own house then we could get a couple of dogs, but I would have them trained this time. We had two puppies in our old place and they were crazy, they tore up our place and we couldn’t afford to have them trained.   So we had to give them away, and I think we will always miss them. That will be our number one priority when we get a house. Also, our house will be great to decorate. I love to decorate at christmas and I would love to have a tradition every year in adding more and more christmas decorations and lights to the outside of the house. I would like our house to be the house that goes a little overboard every year. I think it would be fun, and why not, it’s only once a year.

I would love to start a new traditon and have our families come to our house every year on christmas eve. Our families don’t really get together much anymore. It would be nice to have all of our family in one place together for a holiday. I want the children to have a close relationship with their family, I think that’s important. We have family all over, it would be great to have everyone fly up and stay with us. Joe and I are homebodies, we don’t want to leave our place, but we always want to have people over. So, that’s why we would want to host, it would work out great for us.

Our tradition that we have started and will keep on going, is to have the four of us go pick out our tree together. We get a few new tree ornaments every year, ones that are special and usually with the year on it. Then we go home, put up our tree and decorate it together. My daughter elise wasn’t able to help this year, but she was smiling watching us decorate and she was dancing while listening to us sing christmas songs. My son always gets so excited and my fiance joe has really gotten into it. This is something I will always look forward to doing each year with my family.