2012 Goals

What a great year 2011 was.  I think it will be hard to top!  It's started with lots of travel, and then my job promotion in the middle, and then ended with having Carter.  It will be a year to be remembered for sure.  

As I look forward to 2012 I have decided to simply my resolutions/goals. I usually have too many and we've seen where that's gotten me.  So instead of the usual (not that there is anything wrong with these if they are yours, I just know myself and know I need to limit it to get anything done) loose weight, eat healthier, get up earlier goals I'm going to just have these three:

1.  Be a great mom to Carter.

2.  Be a supportive and loving wife.

3.  Read my scriptures everyday.

I know that these are general.  But I've decided that's the point.  I tend to over-schedule, over-complicate my life of things that I "have to get done".

Instead, I'm going to use these as priorities.  I figure, if these are always on the top of my list, and if these rule the decisions and actions I take this year, then everything else will fall into place.  These three things truly matter because they involve the two people that matter most to me.  And what is more important than putting your family first and then making sure that you have the spirit in your life?  

I look forward to Claudy graduating this year.  I look forward to Carter rolling over, crawling and eventually walking.  I'm sure this year will be full of milestones.  I can't even guess where we'll be in a year.  I'd like to guess and say we'll be out of Utah and onto grad school, or at least living somewhere and working before grad school to get in-state tuition.  But, watch me be on this same couch, in this same room.  Who knows?? 

I look forward to the growth and exciting times (and hopefully some travel!) ahead that 2012 will inevitably bring and hope that I can rise and meet these times and learn from them what I am supposed to.

I'm grateful to see another year and say bring it on!