A New Year

I thought it would be fun to look back on 2007 and list my favorite things of the year. Rather than put them in order of most important I just ordered them by time of the year.

Our new house

Finding Chelsea – the best nanny ever!

My new bike

Finishing a century and half marathon

Being in better shape in my 30’s than my 20’s

Buying new “skinny” jeans

Phoenix – Amy’s wedding and spending time with old college buddies, not to mention shopping with Kati it doesn’t get much better than that

Tayson’s first day of school

My parent’s moving so close

Mark’s mission (it’s bittersweet having him gone, but I wouldn’t want him anywhere else)

Blogging – I love being back in touch with so many friends who have moved away

Thanksgiving

My hair being as long as Sherry's - for the first time in my life

Our Cruise

Reading (what a year…Harry Potter, Twilight Series, and about 20 other books along the way)

And of course my wonderful husband and kids!!! It just keeps getting better every year.

Looking Ahead:
I'm not big on setting new years resolutions. I love Kati's idea of creating a "theme" instead, but haven't been good at that either. I always tell my spin class at the start of the year the best way to do a fitness goal is to sign up for an event or race rather than say you're going to lose 5 lbs. However, I thought it would be fun to just list some things I'm looking forward to in 2008 then just sit back and enjoy the year rather than think of all the things I'm not doing. So here goes:

Spending the summer with my kids

Lots more reading

So many babies being born this year

Having someone else clean my house

Luke and Claire getting potty trained...hopefully!!!