25 Before I turn 25

I wrote for my "New Years" post about not having any resolutions/goals for the new year because I had my own list of goals to accomplish before my birthday and never returned to that topic. Last June I wrote a list of goals for myself to get done before my birthday. I called it my "24 goals before I turned 24" List. Here are some of the goals that I accomplished from June - February:

* Go to the Dentist :)
* Seal the Grout
* Clean out the Garage and park two cars in the garage
* Finish the retaining wall in our basement
* Finish our Honeymoon Scrapbook
* Get window covering for all the windows without (I lived almost 3 years in the house without blinds on some windows! It was about time!)
* Give the Master Bedroom a mini-makeover
* Read the New Testament
* Read 15 books (amazing because I barely read a whole book since graduating)
* Try 24 new recipes (Todd liked this one!)

And of course there were others...

So this birthday I sat down and made a new list. I am hoping that I can accomplish it all before my birthday next year. My birthday is Valentine's Day - so my deadline to finish this list is Feb. 14, 2012.

25 Goals Before I Turn 25

1.          Read the whole Bible
2.          Start a vegetable garden and plant flowers in my garden
3.          Learn to Crochet/Knit
4.          Sew a Quilt
5.          Learn how to coupon
6.          Take Surveys online to get gift cards
7.          Repaint the Deck and spruce it up
8.          Print off/document photos from the last three years
9.          Decorate a nursery
10. Paint all the trim/doors in the house
11. Build a Piece of Furniture
12. Get better at taking photos 
13. Try to further my Arbonne business
14. Buy my first Mac Computer
15. Rearrange and spruce up the Basement
16. Update the Upstairs Bathroom
17. Redecorate the Basement Bathroom and fix up some things
18. Spruce up a few things in the Kitchen and living room
19. Get Window Boxes on the front of the house
20. Reupholster a piece of furniture
21. Blog regularly 
22. Make the Guest Bedroom a place guests would like to stay
23. Continue to build up our savings and start a College Fund for Baby
24. Exercise 230 Times
25. Read 25 Books – at least 12 “personal growth”

So there we have it - the inevitable goal list. It really helps me focus on things that I think are important and want to accomplish. I have been working on some... but I better get busy! :)

Happy 2011!

Happy New Year!! 

So I redesigned the blog. I thought since I haven't blogged in a while and since it is a new year I would just redo things a bit to inspire me to write more - because obviously I haven't written on the blog since June. Oops. 

So last year I had 2010 goals - and I thought I would review over those and see how I did. I believe I said that I wanted to blog once a week and obviously that goal didn't exactly work out :) But I think I did pretty good on the rest: 

1) Learn to cook: I have tried 24 new recipes from June - currently. I know I tried several before that as well. I have made some recipes that I will never try again and some that have already become family favorites. So I guess I could say that I did pretty good on this one. 

2) Budget: I did not start the year off good with this one - but this summer I started to listen to Dave Ramsey and  read a few of his books and it has helped us tremendously with the budget! The last couple months we have had a budget and KEPT it! :) We didn't start the year off great- but ended it good though! 

3) Exercising: Well - this one is always a struggle. I would say I did more exercising than last year. I got a Gazelle (you know the one elliptical machine that Tony Little (man with woman -like long hair in a annoying ponytail) endorses on the informercials). Anyways I park it in front of the TV and watch shows with Todd while getting a quick workout in. I did mention the Wii we had in last year's post -but I haven't used that to work out since January. 

 So all in all I think I did a pretty good  job with my 2010 goals. So what about my 2011 goals (since I hate "resolutions") ? Well I am a nerd and doing this "24 goals til I turn 24"  - I started kind of late and instead of starting these goals after my birthday last year - I started them in June. I will share the list sometime but I am starting to think I am running out of time - I probably won't get all my goals done this year but at least I tried right? 

Hope everyone had a great new year! I can't believe it is already 2011. Where does the time go? I know Todd and I are excited for 2011 because it will be a big year of change for us with Sweet Pea's expected arrival in July. I wish you all the best  for 2011!