January 3, 2013

I know I have shown this before but for the ALMOST four years we have been married I have found something we actually stay pretty consistent on. It’s kind of a rip off of Oprah’s Vision board, but instead of pictures we just put exactly what goals we want to do.

Watching Mike train for triathlons has been awesome. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t jealous at all, but I would say that being pregnant is just as awesome. (Let me just admit that it has taken the last two weeks for me to realize how AWESOME it is to grow a baby. I seriously was thinking nothing of it until you actually start feeling the baby. Anyway!)

I LOVE how I can look ahead and mentally prepare myself for things to come and it gets me so excited! Most of our goals are physical this year, but we mingled the goals with spiritual, educational, family, financial, and other types of goals too. At the end of the year, we check off the ones we did and put it on our “newsletter” and include all of the things we did that year with it. It’s pretty sweet to reminisce.

Well another year has passed, and I must say that 2012 was definitely a lot better than 2011. Mike and I went back and looked at our 2012 goals and made some new ones for our “goal board” for 2013. It gets me so excited about things! This year is going to have a lot of changes, but it will be way cool to see how our family grows.

The picture above was taken on New Years Eve right when Mike came back from his last bike ride of 2012. I was taking random pictures that day because I was being sentimental about everything being the “last thing of 2012”. If you look closely, you will see he is not wearing any shoes because he had already come in from his ride.

This was the last picture of Barney in 2012. I’m sure there are plenty more to come.

We ended up going over to Mike’s parents house and hung out for a few hours and played games and ATE A LOT! I blame the 20 pounds of pregnancy weight on the holidays. I am SO GLAD they are over, even though we were very blessed this year with a great Christmas and New Years. Everyone has been so generous and supportive of us.

Mike had to have his last egg nog of 2012 and here is the spread….

So much food! We played a little Catch Phrase and hung out until it turned midnight and then we had to take a family photo. P.S. We do not ask Barney to pose every time. He seriously does it himself!