Well Christmas is over and it's a new year. I'm excited. I'm looking forward to a few less drastic changes in our life this year. It's hard to believe this time last year I was just 3 months pregnant with Sam and John was in school and we were blissfully ignorant of what was ahead! But it has been a good year and considering all the major changes that have happened we have been incredibly blessed throughout it all. As usual I have made New Years Resolutions. I always think its funny when people say its stupid or they try not to make them. I think why not? It's always good to be trying to continually better yourself right? So here are mine (In no particular order):
- Study the scriptures/or church material with John everyday
- Lose the rest of my baby weight. This is often a goal of mine as it seems like I've just had a baby alot...
- Read to my children more and to PLAY with and ENJOY my children more instead of just focusing on meeting all their needs.
- Keep my house cleaner
- Finish our house projects: Complete Sam's nursery, Kitchen Re-model, makeover the diningroom and have a back storm door installed.
- Work hard at my church calling (I am a counselor in the YW presidency up here)
- Finish another half marathon before the year is out.
- Take some vacations. I want to enjoy that my husband can take time off now that he's not in grad school anymore!
And now here are some Holiday photo's:
Christmas Morning!
We had a rather unusual snow storm here in Washington a few days ago. It really wasn't that much snow, However this city is very ill equipped to handle any kind of winter storm. They don't have any snow plows. None. They just let it sit in middle of the road. Don't have 4WD? Sucks to be you. Thankfully they do clear the freeways- sort of. Not how they would in Utah of course- but one lane is usually clear enough you could drive along on it. It hasn't been above freezing since the storm either- and they get freezing rain and fog here too. So all the snow that fell is now hard ice. Needless to say we are hanging here at home... It was really unforunate timing as I was at the very end of a grocery shopping cycle and I desperately needed to go into Tri cities to do big grocery shopping. Were getting very creative with our meals here..... The girls and I have made homemade Granola, rolls, and we got lucky and found some frozen chicken and fruit in the deep freezer. Wish me luck with dinner tonight! And naturally school has been cancelled - so Clara hasn't had pre-school and we haven't gone and done anything. So were all getting a little cabin fever. Here are just some random photo's of the past few days They don't really pertain to this blog post:
Wee man taking a bath
Clara loves any opportunity to pose for a photo
I need to buy more boy hats -mittens etc. Poor Sam.
Enjoying the playroom
Airplane Sam
Atleast they sure sleep well after playing out in the snow....
