twenty.twelve.

I cannot believe how fast the last year has gone. And as I normally do let's go over last year's new year resolutions and I'll make a new list for this year...

NOT.

I wish something more profound would have come out, but it didn't.  "not" was the best I could do.

What I'm trying to say is this year, I'm not doing the resolutions. I love planning, I love goals, and I love reaching goals and having my plans work out. However, I have had year after year on disappointment on the same few things. And what it comes down to, is I do what I want during the year and sometimes it coordinates with the resolutions I planned on January 1st and sometimes it doesn't. I must admit that the only reason I ran 2 half marathons last year was because I had made a resolution to do so. but every. other. thing. on my list just got done because I would have done it anyway or it didn't because I wouldn't have done it anyway. So this year is a NEW YEAR. And I'm going about things a little bit differently. so let me tell you about my upcoming year. There are some things that are going to happen no matter what, and that's what this list is...

• Jan 10th I start BOOTCAMP! That's right. I joined the army. Not really, I'm sure you really fell for that too. I'm doing this hardcore exercise dealio with some girls in my ward - It's a 6 week bootcamp, 6:00 a.m. - it's gonna kill me, but hopefully it jump-starts my motivation to be healthy this year.
• Jan 14th, Grace turns 4. We will have a princess party where all invited should dress as a princess (or prince) It will be quite the fun time for little 4 year olds, I tell you what.
• Jan 24th, I turn 25. "That's a quarter of a century. Makes a girl think!" Except for that it doesn't. I don't really care about this birthday, to be honest. James said I could get a new bed set with pillows and all that for our room, so I'm excited to re-do our room for my birthday and that's about it.
• April 6th James and I will have been married for 5 years. Man...I keep saying this, but it's true: time flies. It's been a great 5 (almost) years. Excited for that day.
• April 28th I'm running the THanksgiving Point Half Marathon. It's during the Tulip Festival so it should be gorgeous.
• May 26th my brother Jay is getting married in Portland OR. to a fabulous girl, Emily. Yes...another Emily in our family. We have 3 Emily's and 6 James' so conversations get confusing sometimes. Anyway, we will be going to Portland this year, and being there for that, which will be fantastic. He is possibly having an open house in UT which I will be in charge of planning if he does. This is another thing I will get excited for if that's what really goes down. It would be in July sometime.
• June 15/16: James and I are running Ragnar. Hopefully I can recruit more family members to do it as well. And hopefully my hub doesn't back out on me because we aren't sure what his school schedule will be...but I think we can make it work. Either way, it'll be an adventure.
• July 17th Rocky will be a 3 year old. I hope to have him potty trained before that day. We've been back and forth with it, but starting in about a week, I plan to put him underwear and never look back. We'll see how that goes.
• July 29th is James' golden birthday - he will turn 29. That suddenly sounds old to me. It's very close to 30 which is like the whole next phase in life, you know? haha. Not really, most of our pals are in their 30s and they seem to be the same as our pals in their 20s. but still....29. on the 29th. fun.
• James is not taking any breaks in school this year. Usually he takes the summer off. Not this time. He is taking 12-18 credits all year. We hope this will make him get done with school within about 18 months...*hope*
• I'm raising my prices for photography. Why? I don't know, because I've stopped taking new clients. But for the possible random new clients I decide to take, my prices will be a tad  higher.  a tad.
• In my dreams I get to visit Florida/Arizona/California this year as well, but I think it will end up being Arizona for about a weekend IF that, possibly in the fall? It all depends on school.

And that's it. I of course want to be better spiritually, and physically, and all the same goals I have every year, but as I said before, nothing goes as plans and whatever happens would have happened anyway. So here is to a new year full of good times, busy times, lazy summer days, and lots of family fun time with my kiddos. That's really all I ask.

Happy New Year!

Cheers!