Here we are in 2025! What will the year bring to our lives? I hope it is a good year full of new experiences and fun new adventures.
We spent New Year's Eve and celebrated bringing in the New Year with our friends, the Pini's. We had a blast playing games chatting and letting the kids hang out. Our nacho bar and snacks were more than enough to feed an army so we were stuffed. We have enjoyed getting to know the Pini's over the last year and love having them as friends.
I talked to the kids a little bit about what goals they would like to accomplish this year and they didn't really know. After thinking for a minute, though, they came up with some good things.
Emily would like to find a job, maintain her 4.0 GPA in school, run a half marathon, make Varsity in cross country, and work toward receiving her patriarchal blessing. Those are all great goals!
Colby wants to qualify for State in Mountain Biking this year. He hopes to do this by focusing on speed training and riding more often. I also suggested working out his legs more by doing squats and lunges or even running. Good Luck!
Logan wants to improve his gymnastics skills by learning to do a back handspring. He also wants to go mountain biking more often so he will be ready to be on the team in the summer. His main goal is to get me to move him into his own room!
Charlotte wants to improve on the piano and score well on her AIM tests. She also wants to try out gymnastics because she thinks it looks fun.
Brooklyn will start preschool in the Fall so my goals for her are to learn the alphabet and numbers as well as learn to write her name and tie her shoes. She wants to learn to play music like the big kids so we may start music classes too.
Russell is working toward his Critical Care Paramedic Certificate and hopes to earn that this year. He has also taken on the position of head coach of the Mountain Bike team so he has been working toward getting that program more established and running well.
The goals I have for myself are similar to years past. I want to continue to attend the temple once a week. I would like to learn how to do family history too so that I know a little more about the people I am doing work for. I think that will make my temple experiences even more meaningful. I was just called to be Charlotte's primary teacher so I want to do a good job. Because of this, one of my goals is to study the scriptures more often and more in depth so that I can better teach the kids in my class. We are studying the Doctrine and Covenants this year. I don't have any major fitness goals this year but I would like to remain active through running, biking, swimming, and hiking. I loved exploring and discovering different hiking trails last year and would like to continue to do that this year too. Right now my goal is to stay on task and not be distracted by my phone. I am going to avoid getting trapped in Internet or Social Media rabbit holes and only use my phone for necessities. Like always, I would like to get more organized and finish some incomplete or procrastinated projects this year too. (I will need to make a list!)
Most of all, the one thing I want to do this year as a family is spend more time in the scriptures and Come, Follow, Me. Emily also expressed this as something we need to do. I always get really overwhelmed or anxious about this because I am not great about expressing my feelings about the scriptures or teaching. I think having the calling as a primary teacher will really help me with this. Maybe, like the temple appointments, scheduling the family scripture time in the calendar will help. I will work on this.
I am looking forward to this new year and hope it will be a good one!
