new year.

new years eve. the night when parents are forced to stay up til past midnight, only thinking about how their children are going to get up 6 hours later and expect miracles out of their parents. 

that's how i feel anyways. haha. but out of obligation, we must do something for new years, i refuse to be those people who go to bed before the clock strikes 12. we're not to that point in our life yet. 

so, we had some friends over, and did fondue and games. very exciting. i mean that seriously, because i do get all excited for chocolate and fruits. and i did dominate at ticket to ride.  

but to add to the excitement, we had left over sparklers from 4th of july, so we whipped out those bad boys.

if you don't know what excitement is, try and give two almost three year olds sparklers and keep them from attacking each other. win to the husband who drew boxes on the ground for them to stand in. except for we had to reposition them because they could touch each other's coats with them. sneaky devils. they did have a blast though. 

i feel like we haven't done much this year, i had to go back through my old posts to see the things we've done: 

gone to the beach house a few times alone and with friends

celebrated levi's birthday

went on the trains for zak's birthday

moved to hopefully our last house here

went to disneyland

went to a major league baseball game

potty trained zak

had a baby

went to reno for the rib cook off

went camping for the first time 

went trick or treating for the first time 

celebrated thanksgiving with my mom 

went to canada for christmas. 

basically our fun things this year consisted of traveling. not too shabby. hurrah for being half way done dental school and almost on the our next adventures. 

 i went back to look at my resolutions for last year, and i feel like i did ok at them. maybe it's because i was pregnant, but they were really not very difficult. get dressed? pfft. fail. i really should do better at that this year

as for resolutions: 

mine are: 

-be in bed by 11:00. {greysen is determined to ruin this by waking up at or after this time every day this week. this kid is out to get us this week}

-get up and exercise every morning before the kids get up. {side note: greysen has been waking up at 5:00 because he starving recently for some reason, which makes me getting back up at 6:15 to work out very difficult. i have yet to switch his schedule around to accommodate my working out. this is a work in progress resolution, however i will say that i have done it every day, just at a different time. 

-read the lesson for sunday school each week. since i pay so much attention to it while we're actually there. 

-eat three meals a day. i hate making lunch. it's the worst. 

-stay in budget. this is a problem i'm trying to overcome seeing as i have recently just found this site, and it makes me want to blow my entire monthly allowance/budget on jewelry. i'm obsessed. 

we shall see how these go, i need to make some changes, but i'm optimistic about them. my spouse is not one for making resolutions, so i don't really have any for him to write down. 

yeah for 2013!