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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

goodbye 2011 hello 2012


we have been talking a lot about resolutions around here and tried to come up with at least one in each category - faith, physical, relationships, and learning!

here are the families resolutions for the new year!


mom - phrase - choose joy!

*date the kids - one on one time at least 2x month

  • tell each child once a day i love them and a specific compliment, hope, dream for their life
  • plan dates for us creatively on a budget
  • read “where the red fern grows to the boys”
  • work out 3x a week - 25 minutes cardio
  • save a buy a real adult comforter - it is already picked out of course
  • save up to get enough chairs to fit our family around our table
  • pray more - be creative car and shower

Dad -

  • friday morning breakfast dates with each kid
  • more spiritual leadership in family
  • make sure Lucia, Kinkade, Keagan and Dad always clean up after meals, never Mom
  • build working out into calendar


keagan

  • read The Lost Hero before december
  • listen to verses more attentively during church
  • be more patient with my sisters and try not to harass them even though it is so fun
  • go undefeated in basketball and football again next season


kinkade

  • finish the book the last Olympian
  • try not to melt down in football, basketball and soccer all year
  • rebuild my relationship with Conner spend more time with him


lucia

no more fighting, more loving and one candy a day


emery

  • spend more time with caitlin


best memories from the 2012!


keagan

  • cross country camp with grampy
  • christmas break
  • spending time with my cousins
  • my diving catch from my brothers awesome throw in football
  • my buzzer beater in basketball

kinkade

  • pogo stick camp
  • going to the beach with my cousins
  • my hail mary throw to my brother for a touch down

dad

  • the girls dedication at church on mothers day
  • going to penticton with my wife

mom

  • the boys mcmurray to mcmurray touchdown
  • lucia and emery dancing at ashley and chris wedding
  • going to santa barbara with mandolyn and my sweet husband
  • penticton to celebrate anniversary
  • sea world with the kids


lucia

  • my birthday

emery

*going potty

  • being at the lake with all my friends
favorite pictures from the year -

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