Our Family Goals

With the new year we sat down as a family and talked about some goals that we wanted to set as a family for the new year.  We decided on 4 main goals that we wanted to do as a family and then I printed up papers that would help us sit individual goals.  The kids really enjoyed setting their own goals and its funny how they are still holding each other accountable, including Mommy, which one of my goals was to yell less.  I get the little reminders after I've lost my cool or something that I should remember that my goal was to yell less this year.

My Theme for 2016

I love whenever the New Year comes around.  I love being able to reevaluate myself and think about the good things that happened during the last year and things that I could really work on during this upcoming year.  2015 was a year of growth for me.  I learned a lot about myself.  I always thought when I got to be 29 that I would have a good head on my shoulders and know myself pretty well but apparently not!  I'm a work in progress and I'm ok with that.  I have spent some time reflecting on my theme from last year, Enjoy the little things.  I feel like for the majority of the year I managed to stop worrying about what my house looked like everyday and to stop and enjoy my little kids and the things they do, but than pregnancy hit and that's a whole different ball game.  I tried but when you don't feel good 99% of the day it's hard to enjoy it.  Although after a week of being miserable and feeling all sad that I wasn't feeling good I remembered my theme, and with this most likely being our last child I decided that I wanted to try and enjoy this pregnancy, as much as you can being sick all the time.  It has defiantly pushed me to think long and hard about why I would be grateful for my ever changing body and my crazy mood swings and the constant desire to barf but I am so grateful and happy that I have the opportunity to carry my babies and to experience something so miraculous and amazing.  And we are so excited to welcome this new little girl into our family this year!
 
I'm still wanting to work on last year's theme but with the new year I wanted a new theme for 2016.  Before 2016 even got here we knew it was going to be a crazy year for us with new baby coming this year and Kyle's job taking him to Ephraim.  A lot of anxiety and stress and worry comes with this new year and I get really emotional when I think about it all and feel really overwhelmed by it all.  I thought long and hard about what I want to work really hard on and as simple as it seems I chose to BE HAPPY!  I tend to be a pretty happy person but everyday I make a choice and I want to choose to be happy no matter what.  Life is going to be a rollercoaster and I'm scared of what is going to come but no matter what craziness is going on around me or how much laundry is piling up or if the house constantly looks like a bomb went off, which are all things that will drive me crazy, I choose to be happy!  And at the end of the day when I'm getting ready to go to bed, I'm hoping that I can put everything aside that's gone on that day and just be happy with the life that my Heavenly Father has blessed me with.   I know that my Heavenly Father loves me and is mindful of me.  I also know that he would never give me more than I can handle, and I feel like this year is really going to push me to my limits.  I'm hoping by always keeping in mind to be happy that I will be able to conquer this year and end up on top instead of drowning.  So here's to 2016 and CHOOSING to BE HAPPY!