Im back!!

Yes, I'm here! Yes, I'm Alive! and Yes, I have a exciting announcement!!!!

NO NO NO NO I am NOT pregnant!!!

Actually I have more than one exciting thing to tell you all! First things first many of you have expressed concern for my health. I want you all to know I am doing GREAT!!! Thank you for your concern I really appreciate you all so much!!!

Okay, next I really think I'm a little crazy. I have so many things running through my mind at this minute. This year I have decided to devote my blog to goals and the journey I take to accomplish them.

I have so many goals and often times I just allow them to go untouched. Not anymore I'm going to accomplish and or at least try all these sometimes crazy ambitions and goals I have in my mind.

So what are my crazy ambitions?? I know your all dying to find out. Well there are many and I'm currently putting together a list. My list is getting longer and crazier as it goes on and on.

My first goal is one I have been working on (and is the reason for my absence from blogging) My first crazy goal/ambition is to publish a book. I'm so excited about this!!! I'm currently compiling my manuscript and I get more and more excited about it each day! So many of you have encouraged me to accomplish this goal. Because my manuscript is currently Top Secret I'm not going to announce here what its about but, I will give you a clue. "You will all Celebrate when you find out what my book is about" he he he can you figure it out??

Another one of my goals is to run a Marathon and participate in the Wasatch Back. This goal is one I wish I could just wake up one day and accomplish. One thing you guys all need to understand is I am not a runner!!! This goal is one that will take work each and everyday! I need to have someone to answer to. So I will be posting on here if I accomplished my daily run or not! If I only have to answer to myself somehow I can always get out of running that day!

Starting this week each week I want my kids and I to participate in some sort of service project together! The project can range from taking cookies to a neighbor to larger projects like gathering items for orphanages and homeless shelters. I want to do this and accomplish this goal for so many reasons! My family and I have been given so much! The least of what we could do is give back and pay forward what we have been given!

Each month I want to write a letter of gratitude to someone who has influenced me throughout my life. I'm going to write a actual letter and mail it in the mail. I know this seems weird but, doesn't something seem more sincere when its hand written and you receive it in the mail. Emails are fantastic but, mail is somehow in my mind just a little more special!

Okay I just ate 2 cookies and I feel sick. Next goal stop eating all the cookies and treats while the kids are gone for the weekend!

Goals are so important and I can't sit back any longer allowing my life to unfold in front of me. I'm going to take charge! I'm going to accomplish the things I want to accomplish! I have the agency and the ability to make my life what I want it to be. I want my life to be full of love, happiness, and family. I don't want to regret anything! I want to live each day to the fullest and have the ability to look back at my life and at the same time have a great hope for tomorrow.

Here is my list (in no particular order)



Cook at least 2 new recipes a month for my family

To make as many things from scratch as I can for my family (i.e. bread)

To give away at least 5 Book of Mormons a yr with my testimony to someone I know personally.
To never say no to trying something new (unless dangerous or against my personal standards)

To plant something from a seed and have it actually grow and not die.

To do Kiana's hair a new and exciting way each week

To sit down and read individually to each of my children at least 3 times a week

To never miss my Church meetings (unless illness or something major strikes)

To study my scriptures for at least 20 minutes a day

To walk places as much as possible (that's easy right now because I don't have a car)

To celebrate each and everyday with my family

To actually catch a craw fish

I want to read all 100 favorite novels of a librarian

(www.the-bookman.com/main/best.books.html)

I want to cook a lobster

Learn how to waltz

I want to go golfing (not miniature but, real golfing I've never been)

I would like to actually get up on water skies (sounds pathetic but, true)

I want to ride a bike through Europe

Hike Mt. Kilimanjaro

Help with a foreign aide project (building a school, working in a orphanage)

Seek forgiveness from all those I have offended

Help heal broken hearts and sadness in my extended family

Read the Ensign from front to back each month

To save enough money to buy a car for cash!

Learn how to not be afraid of putting in contacts

crochet a blanket

quilt a blanket

Speak to a large group of people and share some of my experiences and how they have benefited and changed my life

Complete a triathlon

Forgive myself

To try a type of food from every different major country

To start a fire without matches

To only eat out once a month

Participate in the Sabbath with a Jewish family

Take my kids to volunteer at the Krishna Temple and participate in the Holi Festival of Colors

Ride on a elephant

Pet a Dolphin (no Killer Whales)

Learn a speak Spanish

Start saving to go on a mission with Jeremy

Smile everyday

To give at least one compliment to a stranger daily

To make sure my kids feel like they are amazing each and everyday!!!!!

Eat a rattlesnake (I know weird but, I hear it tastes like chicken and it just sounds cool)

To take that perfect picture! (you know the one that captures the moment perfectly)

Learn how to play a song on the piano

Help Jeremy feel appreciated everyday

Help my kids accomplish their goals and to be there to catch them if they ever fall short

Become a member of the Mormon Tab Choir

To learn and experience as much as I can about people and different cultures

I would like to touch every Ocean (Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean)

Go to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in NY

Learn how to lasso something

Apply to be on the Amazing Race

Do something new with my hair

Win a Hoola Hoop Competition (this has been a goal since I was 7)

Paint a picture (you know a real picture with a canvas and paints)

Be on TV (You know all the crazy people you see on the Today show outside the studio. Yes, I want to be one of those people)


Okay I'm sure my list is going on and on. If you could see my paper actually my papers my list is 3 pages long.

I will post more goals periodical

I'm excited to invite all of you to participate as my family and I take on our goals. You will experience first hand our triumphs and our failures. Life is a adventure right. So here we go lets see where our experiences take us and I'm sure along the way I will find so much more to be Thankful For!