26 goals...

26 goals for the 26th year of my life:

So, every year I set a list of goals I would like to accomplish. A goal for every year of my life, and one for the year I'm working on.

Here goes:

1. Grow our family. Yea, I said that out loud. 

(Please note: this is still a goal, and not an actuality yet!)

2. Graduate from college...finally.

3. Train Hueco through the first levels of puppy school.

4. Learn how to reupholster.

5. Go sledding.

6. Take family pictures.

7. Have a fully decorated home.

8. Find a job pertaining to what I went to school for.

9. Sell 10 things I make (whoa! Dream big!)

10. Perform something on stage.

11. Buy a camera.

12. Climb a 5.10 without hanging.

13. Do a solid yoga headstand. 

14. Run a 5k and get a shirt!

15. Make home made yogurt

16. Eat less processed food, more home cookin!

17. Not eat at a fast food joint more than 10 times

(embarrassing that that has to be a goal for me!)

18. have 100% visiting teaching!

19. Make a piece of art for my home.

20. Take Russell on a super epic date.

21. Eat at the Space Needle.

22. Swim in the ocean.

23. Sleep under the stars.

24. Week long backpacking trip.

25. Call my brothers and sisters more.

and!

26. Study the Book of Mormon cover to cover.

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Its going to be a great year!!

NEMESIS!

Gah, such a cheap shot!

Goes straight for the eyes.

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I'm not sure what it is, but I'm pretty certain I have an especially hard time dealing with chopping onions.

I am in no way ashamed to admit I have tried many things-- including goggles-- to help with this predicament.

My mother in law chops hers underwater in a blender, but alas, we don't have a blender/food processor or the counter/cupboard space for one.

Now, every time I cut up an onion, I cut up several and place them in the freezer so I don't have to deal with them for at least the next few meals.

Oh well...
 I guess bloodshot eyes and cheeks streaked with mascara are just going to have to be an expected accompaniment to anything containing onions.

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Unless you have any hints for me?

What the future holds *mushy*

The other night, 

husband and I snuggled in to talk before we fell asleep.

He then proceeded to tell me about our future. 

All about our modest blue house a few hours away from Yosemite,
where we climb, camp, hike and swim
 Our wrap around porch where we eat during the summer,

echoing with the sound of the bare feet of our three children,
 with one on the way...

our big grassy back yard, little box gardens

and a giant oak tree in the front yard

...

And our seven rabbits, each named after the seven dwarfs, 

"Dopey is more of a giant puffball than a rabbit though," he says as he plays with my hair; "he is your favorite"

We also have a pygmy goat that just roams the back yard, his name is TinCan.

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Could my heart hold anymore?