Happy New Year, 2012

My 2011 goals and evaluations ~
1.  Read the Book of Mormon at least 5 minutes everyday * I tried and did pretty good and I can say I did better than I did in 2010, but it didn't happen everyday ... I justify not reading if I have spent over an hour+ on my church callings that day.  I'll keep working on this one. 
2.  Run a half marathon (I've already signed up for Ragnar in Utah, June 17-18, which counts)  * Yep!
3.  Build an organized 3 month food storage *I made good progress, and have three months of meals and snacks all in a spreadsheet with total amount of ingredients needed, and I've done a couple shopping trips but I need to rethink some of my freezer items because I don't have a big enough freezer for what I want to store, so I'm going to keep working on this.
4.  Build a stronger emergency fund * Yep!  
5.  Improve FHE night - do it more often and be more creative with it  *Yep!  We have FHE pretty much every week now and the kids love it, even though we keep it very simple.


2012 Goals.  I'm writing these down so that I can refer back to them during the year.
1.  Form a habit of having family prayer before we put the kids to bed
2.  Focus on the relationships with the people in my home (i.e., be nicer to the ones I love most)
3.  Finish reading the Book of Mormon and earn my YW "Honor Bee"award
4.  Continue working on a realistic/useful 3 month food storage for our family
5.  Catch up on my own family's history - organize pictures, edit home videos & make another blog book


I'm excited for a new year and what it will bring!  


Taboo.  Since this blog is the closest thing I have to a journal, I hope to write in it more like a journal and less like a blog.  And I know it's sort of "taboo" to talk about church callings on the blog, but for as much time as I spend on callings, I feel like I need to start writing about it so I remember the lessons I learn and the experiences I have.  So I'm done not mentioning church callings.  


I'm nervous how this year will go with said callings.  I juggled 2nd Counselor (Beehives) in Young Women and Stake Girl's Camp 5th Year Leader last year and did an alright job, but it was s.t.r.e.s.s.f.u.l.  In fact, I promised myself if they asked me again, I would say no.  It felt like a lot for my family at the time.  Especially since Brandon needs to spend a good amount of time on his calling too, and I want to be home and available for him to be able to spontaneously serve as need be.  Brandon is and always has been so supportive of my church callings, I really want to return him the favor.  


But yeah, so then they asked me to serve again (this time as Stake 6th Year Leader) and all I could say was, "Yes!".  This means more work for camp, but I get to work with the same group of girls that I worked with last year, so that's a plus.  And now I have 11 Beehives, which is a lot compared to last year (also more work), but the more the merrier, I keep telling myself.  So to sum it all up, I'm basically screwed.  But I couldn't say no to more blessings!  We could use them!  And I know that Heavenly Father will help me manage all the meetings and phone calls and text messages and emails and time, and that it's what I am supposed to be doing right now.