2010 - Recap of Goals - Better Luck This Year!

Too bad the year didn't end in July.  I did much better the first half of the year.  2011's Goals are coming up and they'll be very simple!

2010 Family Goals

Read Preach My Gospel as a family - We made it about half way through and then went back to reading the scriptures.

Have Family Prayers Together Every Night and Have Prayers with Each Child before they leave for school each morning. - Hit & Miss - We do fairly well when we get to bed on time so we can get up on time but we're not consistent enough with bedtimes.

Have a well planned Family Home Evening each week - we had family home evening every week although it wasn't always well planned.

Family Fun Activity Every Week - not even close to every week.

Do something active as a family at least once a week - Perhaps one or two weeks out of the year :(

Eat at least 7 meals Together As A Family each week - We came close to averaging this amount but some weeks it was 10 or 12 meals and other weeks only 2 or 3 meals.

Get the kids to bed on time on school nights - Bad - been really bad about this

Encourage the kids to limit their Media & Video Gaming time - Not so good on this either. They get off the computer then get on the DS then get off the DS and watch TV.

Chores – Teach them to work - Brian is the only reason this goal was even close to being met

2010 Personal Goals

Kneel in prayer each morning and night - I started off so well and slacked as the year went on.

Read my scriptures every day - Same thing as my prayers

Attend the Temple at least once every month - I made it at least 12 times but the majority was during the first few months of the year.

Read the Ensign cover to cover each month - Still working on this, I'm behind but will get them read

Read at least 100 books - I read 250 books

Spend at least 2 days a week at home without leaving to run errands or grocery shop - I did fairly well on this but now need to add stay at home and stay off the computer!

Lose the 20 lbs I gained in 2009 - Gaining 5 lbs doesn't count

Blog daily and keep in touch with extended family and friends - I turned into a weekly blogger and didn't stay in touch very well.

Make time to Be Still & Ponder each day - Started off good then did horribly

Start doing family history work - Thanks to my Aunt Judy's motivation I did start doing family history work - now to continue.

Weekly date with Brian - Fairly good on this one, it's nice that the kids are all in school so we can go out to lunch

New Year's Eve

We spent New Years Eve at home decorating gingerbread houses, eating nachos, pizza (and lots of other junk), drinking Brown Cows and watching movies. 

Bradley's Birthday Party

The boys had a great time having pizza at the park and then going minature golfing.

Happy Birthday Bradley

 Rock Climbing & Swimming at Washington City Center.

 Happy Birthday Bradley!

Omelets, Pirate Island Pizza & Mac & Cheese

On birthday the kids get to pick their meals. Bradley chose omelets, the buffet at Pirate Island Pizza and Mac & Cheese.  Yum!

Biking in a Swimsuit, Christmas Dinner

Kylie trying out her new bike in her new swimsuit.  It was a warm Christmas day.

Christmas Dinner of Ham & Potatoes

Birthday Cake for Baby Jesus.

Merry Christmas

Hundreds of dollars, hours of work and it's all over in about 20 minutes. 

But I'm not complaining. We are blessed and Santa was good to us this year.
Merry Christmas.

Christmas Eve at Philip & Marvas

On Christmas Eve my Uncle Philip and Aunt Marva have a big Christmas Buffet.

There is always a lot of yummy food to eat.

After eating we play games.

And hang out until it's time to go home to bed so Santa can come.

Although I think the best present of all is this one :)

Christmas Eve Pajamas

We all opened a new pair or pajamas or sweats.  I made everyone wear them to Uncle Philip and Aunt Marvas.

Pirate Island Pizza

We have a tradtion of going out to eat on Christmas Eve.  This year we choose to go to Pirate Island Pizza.  We used to do dinner but now do a late lunch because A) it's cheaper & B) my aunt and uncle have a buffet at their home on Christmas Eve.

 $40 worth of tokens later we had a lot of tickets to spend.

We even snapped a family picture.  I was searching for a family picture a week ago and realized we hadn't taken many this year.