8 in '08

Okay, so I'm going to jump on the New Year's Resolution bandwagon. I didn't do this last year for some reason. I should have posted something so I could look back and see how well I did. Well, I can probably guess how well it would have gone but this year will be great, I swear! My mom had a lady tell her that if your house starts off clean for the new year it will stay clean all year long. I know it sounds kind of lame, but I thought anything would help! But alas, we all got sick and that wasn't going to happen. I did get our bedroom in decent shape, though! Anyway. Here is my list for the new year. Update to come in January 2009:

1. Lose 20 pounds. And don't you dare say I don't need to lose any weight because I've seen pictures of myself and I do too! Goal is to be close to my wedding weight (which is about 10 lbs higher than my lowest-ever weight.) My goals is to achieve this by Spring Break so we can go to the beach!

2. Read my scriptures every day. I'm so bad about this. I also vow to take my scriptures to church ever week. It's hard with all my RS stuff and Ben Sacrament Bag that I hardly have room for my scriptures!

3. Help John find a new job. I know this will require more work on John's part, but I can do a lot to help him out. I mean, we'll both benefit so why not BOTH help make it happen?

4. Get halfway out of debt. This will hinge upon John getting a new job, but regardless we're making a concerted effort.

5. Be perfect tithe payers. Because right now we're not, but in RS someone said to pick one thing at at time and perfect it and we'll start with tithing!

6. Organize one closet a month. We're nearing the stage where we'll be planning on improving our condo to sell in the hopefully not to distant future. For this to be done we really need it organized. I'll start with the closets! One a month. We have 4 closets. I can do it!

7. Get Ben off his pacifier and started potty training. We're in the process of getting rid of the pacifier and have already noticed an increase in his talking so hopefully that will facilitate more new words and more independence on his part! Ben is growing so fast it's amazing. We love him!

8. Get my Etsy shop up and running and start on programming for my website. I'm going to test some of my cards, invitations and other things on Etsy in preparation for getting my website up and running. Thanks, Ambyr for the referral on the printer, it will help a lot. I'll let everyone know when my Etsy shop is up and you can tell all your friends! :)

I could probably think of about 50 other things I need to improve upon but I wouldn't want to get carried away. Maybe I'll do a mid-year update. Good luck to everyone on all of your goals, too!