Soooo we are pretending like last week didn't happen and that this week was our official new year! I love the new year so much. I love re-evaluating my life and my goals and my direction. Like I've mentioned in previous years, I only ever set ONE goal a year. And its the best way to do it. And this is how i've convinced my family to do it also :).
2019 Goals:
Landon
Become an early riser
Becca:
Be on time to commitments
This is something I desperately need to be better at. I've always been a really insanely efficient person. I'm also known for being able to get a billion things done in a short amount of time. But i'm not just one person anymore and somehow, its taken me almost 10 years to realize that. I think that this goal it will help with so many things. My family gets most frustrated with each other during transitions. So if I plan better we should have more room to budge when emotions run high. I also feel like this will help me stop multi tasking so much, which hopefully will help the frantic feeling I always feel. It would be great if this goal helped with a big eternal goal of mine which it to be a calm, peaceful, and mindful person. But baby steps people.
Sooooo, i've mostly failed so far. We were late to church last week and Jaxson's basketball practice and game this week. BUT today, we were KILLING it and were all ready to go to church at 1:10 (our church starts at 11:30). When I grabbed Luke from his crib he had a MASSIVE blow out. Which took me about 12 minutes to clean up. But we were able to still be 3 minutes early to church and we were all calm. You guys, i'm excited about this one.
Sooooo, i've mostly failed so far. We were late to church last week and Jaxson's basketball practice and game this week. BUT today, we were KILLING it and were all ready to go to church at 1:10 (our church starts at 11:30). When I grabbed Luke from his crib he had a MASSIVE blow out. Which took me about 12 minutes to clean up. But we were able to still be 3 minutes early to church and we were all calm. You guys, i'm excited about this one.
Jax:
Read 25 chapter books
He finished his first one this morning.
Ty:
Read over 1,000 picture books
(This is 3 books a day. So I really should be able to hit this one.)
Luke:
Learn to walk
Family Goal:
Read the Book of Mormon 10 minutes every night
Be ready for church and start our Come Follow Me 15 minute devo at 11:00am every Sunday
Couple Goal
Run 2019 miles collectively
We will do this with the help of training for the Ogden Marathon (Landon), The Pioneer day Marathon (Becca), The St. George Marathon (Landon) and the Thanksgiving Half (Becca & Landon)
REVIEW:
The goals we made for 2018:
The goals we made for 2018:
- Couples Prayer nightly! We did really great at this one and feel like we've gotten into a good pattern. I take odd days and Landon takes even. And yes that means I pray more, but i'm more spiritual than him so it makes sense ;) (ahemm.... or I need it more than him.)
- Ty's goal was to scream less. And i'll tell you what, by the end of the year he really was screaming less. In fact, I don't really think he screams consistently anymore. YAY!!!!
- Me, Lando, and Jax had the goal to read the Book of Mormon every day. We didn't do great at this goal, but Jax and I did finish the Book of Mormon individually, yet at the same time on December 31st so that was great!
- I also had the short goal to run 2 miles when I was 39 weeks pregnant and run a half marathon 4 months after baby came. I completed both of those goals. Landon PR'd in both the marathon that he ran and the trail half marathon.
- We had a family goal to pray for someone in our area that needed help each week and then serve them. We only did this til mid February and it faded out. Bummer! Maybe another year we will re-visit this idea!
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| This little tiny pack in play and the incredible pack in play cover has changed my life. When I took this picture Luke was currently sleeping in this tiny contraption tucked away quietly in my closet while I finished my 2 mile run on the treadmill in the same room and the boys came in and out multiple times AND as you can tell its fairly light in the room. Its essentially given us our entire house back. WOOt WOOT! |
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| Let the running begin!!!!!! |
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| I'm still obsessed with this stuff!!!!! |
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| Its weird I only took pictures of Luke this week! I've been putting my phone to bed outside of my bedroom to help with me being on time to things. I often find myself wasting the very beginning of the day looking and communicating with the world before i'm even out of bed. So I figured if I wanted to start having breakfast by 8:00 every morning I needed to NOT have this distraction. But its changed everything the last 4 days i've tried it. Today at 3:00pm I still had 100% battery on my phone. Im noticing wants I get through that jerk reaction to wake up, roll over and "scroll" (even though I don't have anything to scroll I still find a way to waste time) that I start getting the day moving and then forget all about that little device. SOOOO this is all to explain why I think I haven't taken many pictures of the boys. |
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| We FINALLY figured out Jaxson's schooling. Boy its taken awhile. But We are going to do part homeschol/part public school and its basically going to give me everything I want. Its actually a law in Utah that you can do Dual school. And yes I had to show both Jaxson's teacher and his principal that it was a real thing. Also, in the end, I think we just needed to get back to Bennion. It is what makes all of us the most happy. The special education people were just adamant that Jax would be bored and should be in the "gifted" program. But in the end, I think there are things Jax is advanced in and there are things he isn't. Just like everyone else! I'm so happy we will still have him for most of the week. I'm so happy Landon and I will have time to supplement some things that are important to us. I'm so glad he will still have lots of free time. I'm so happy that I will have individual time with each boy every week and that I will have quiet time to myself each week. Its just going to be great!!!!! And as you've seen before, NOTHING is ever set with me. In fact this schedule has already changed. |
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| We took the boys to Sushi on Saturday. They we BEGGING us!!!! And the just devoured it all. |
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| Landon go lots of money for Christmas and this is what he purchased with it. 2019 miles baby! I think that means he needs to average 25 miles a week and I need to average 15 miles a week. We got this! |
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| DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES????? YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! On Tuesday's we were doing growth mindset day. We loved that day. So we shifted it to Sunday. Jax worked with Mummy in his journal and then we watched this Growth Mindset Movie!!! Sports are so cool. Also we had Ty's Sunbeam Teachers over for dinner tonight. He has really taken to them which has been so wonderful and a little surprising to us. They are so wonderful though!!! We love Brother and Sister Jones aka Batman and Elastigirl. He's praying on his own, and reading the scriptures with us and saying sorry when he does something he know he should, and not fighting me as much when I need to get him to school or put on his church clothes. This boy, he's going to change the world!!!!! |
