Happy New year!

I don't know why, but I've been so excited and looking forward to this new year 2014. Don't get me wrong, 2013 has been great but when I start to think about the new year, I get to thinking about all the things that I want to do and accomplish for 2014. It's a new year a new me is the way I think of it. Just things to help me be better. I honestly have never been like that in the years past, sure I thought up stuff to be better at but never really completed that list. So for some reason I've made a new year resolution list for this upcoming year. I know I know, everyone does it. And everyone usually writes the same thing but these are mine for the new year. And so far, I've been doing a good job at doing all of them, at least the daily goals. I've had this list written the last week of 2013 but have contemplated on posting it several times now. After seeing that my sis posted her list, I thought, "sure, why not?"

Some of the things that I would like to accomplish are but not in any specific order:

~Go to bed earlier, and wake up earlier.
I love to sleep, so this one will be a hard one, but I truly think morning is the best time to accomplish many of the other things I wrote on this resolution. So here's to less sleep. So far, haven't been to good at it. Lets hope I can be more dedicated to doing it.

~Read the scriptures everyday.
I have never really been good at that. Sometimes I do a week straight than slack on it again, or sometimes even a month. But this time I really want to keep at it. My thinking of how to accomplish this goal yet again, do this early mornings before Braxton wakes up. We'll see if I can do it or not. I do love my sleep. So far, as of today I haven't missed a day. I do admit it hasn't been every morning though, got to get over my desire for sleep. (Working full time nights don't help the situation, but I haven't missed a day so far).

~Read the scriptures with Braxton everyday, even if it was only a few verses.
I love the idea that my sister Melanie had in mind, "Scriptures with breakfast". And so far we haven't missed a day. I just have the book of mormon book for kids that show the pictures and easy to read. So I read that everyday with him, I love it, so easy to understand and has pictures! It helps my learning everyday as well. I'm sure Braxton isn't picking anything up from it, but hey, it's a good habit to start!

~Go to the temple once a month, even if it has to be by myself.
For some reason, I'm thinking this one will be a hard one. To think that Jackson and I use to go once a week for 2 years straight and haven't gone since who knows when. It's hard to just go by myself. I was hoping to go once a week again even by myself but knew that was a above and beyond goal so I set the goal for once a month. We'll see how I can do with that. Now that Jackson has a set schedule I could always make it a set day to go by myself every Friday since he has that day off but who knows. I'm shooting for once a month.

~Lose 30 more pounds.
Sure everyone always say they'll lose more weight. I've always been that way too, but I'm thinking if I pick a number I could possibly do it. Heck I did lose 30 pounds back in July to September, I should be able to do it again. I feel like I'm stuck at a plateau. So hopefully I can figure out how to get out of that and accomplish 30 more pounds. We'll see. I can't believe how much 30 pounds can be, I never thought it was that much weight to lose until I saw it in pictures. So yes, I'm gonna brag a bit and share a pictures. I hesitate in sharing pictures because I looked terrible. But hard to realize, at least for myself until I saw pictures. That weight loss was 2-3 months of dedicated calorie counting! Honestly hardly worked out at all. I'm proud to say I kept it off through the holidays! :) Here's to another 30 pounds, I hope!

~Upgrade our Honda Civic to something bigger.
No I'm not pregnant, just hard to fit a baby and two dogs in the back seat. I've been wanting to upgrade for a while now, but just hope to officially do it this new year.

~Workout at least 3 times a week.
I'll be honest, haven't been the best at this already. I just need to do it. I'm hoping to once again do it early morning. Even if means riding my bike 3 times a week. Knowing myself, riding my bike will be my workout every time.

~Work on not being so jealous or envy others or not think so negative.
I'll admit, I dwell on the negative way too much and I have a very hard time with the phrase, "forgive and forget".  I'm sorry but if someone is rude I have a hard time just letting it slide. I'm sure people that is reading this is thinking, "Well your rude." If I have been I'm sorry and I don't intentionally mean to be. I tend to be rude back to others that are rude and that isn't any better either. I know, all of this is horrible. With that being said, I need not dwell on the past. Being jealous, envy others and think so negative is a HORRIBLE habit and will only corrupt myself. I truly will work harder at not being that way anymore.

~Say my prayers more often.
I'm great at saying them before bed, but really need to learn to just roll onto the floor when I wake up and pray.

~Go on a family date once a week.
I'm sure this will be easier once Braxton gets older. So much stuff that we could do in Salt Lake but not worth going there with a baby. Sooner than later I'm sure.

~Go on a date with the husband once a month.
Once a week would be great but I'm not a fan of trying to find a babysitter. I've had someone ask me if we date or when the last time just the two of us went and did something, honestly can think of the last time we did that was maybe back in September/October? Don't know for sure though. So hoping to date more often.

~Keep the house clean.
That may seem so vague and simple but hard for the both of us full time workers to want to do housework as well. We've made a chore chart to help, hopefully. Yes we have a chore chart. Silly I know but with me working full time, I haven't had the desire to do all the housework myself. I technically have two full time jobs. A full time wife/mommy and a full time nurse. If I didn't have my other job of working full time as a nurse I wouldn't mind so much in doing all the housework myself. But for now, that is how it is. Here's to hoping  to have a cleaner house more often than not.

This list may seem long and some items may seem easy cheese to accomplish while others seem ridiculous to be added to my list, but than again this is "my" new years resolution. I've already thought up a system or a way to accomplish most of the items on this list, especially when it comes to the daily habbits I want to create. Just recently, Jackson and I were able to make a more set schedule with work, (fingers crossed) but I'm honestly looking forward to it and planning how to run my days without him. It's harder accomplishing these daily habits of scripture study with a full time job, graveyards nonetheless but I'm pretty determined to do it. Lets hope that fire of determination stays alive!

Anyhow, Happy New Year everyone! I look forward to this upcoming year!