Starting off my New Year

sorry in advance for my punctuation, i'm typing with only one hand. read on to find out why


so i had all these fun plans for today since my husband is gone hunting with my dad. we were going to go to first night that is a family fun thing to do in old town fort collins. we may still go depending on how i am later.
but the start of my day so far went well until i went to the mailbox. when walking back to he house i slipped and fell on the ice. granted of course i didn't have good shoes on. i put my left hand down to catch myself and once i did knew that i had hurt my wrist. walked into the house now in complete pain and told my husband that i needed to go to the emergency room. got to the hospital and waited to be seen. once i was seen they asked what happened and then told me that i was going to have an x-ray done. the doctor came back and told me that i have a fractured wrist.

so now i'm in a splint/cast until i go to see the bone doctor and they can tell me what i will need, whether it be a real cast or whatever. either way i wll have to have something on for 4 to 6 weeks.

anyways i'm resting right now until i will have to get lexi up from her nap and then get ready to go and still have a fun night.

Cooking...My New Year's Resolution

Okay so like in a previous post I said that I was wanting to cook my way through a cookbook like Julie did in Julie and Julia. I am not going to do it like she did though I am giving myself a whole year to complete my way through and it is A LOT smaller of a book then the one she did too.
I have decided to cook my way through Rosemary Brown's Big Kitchen Instruction Book. The recipes seem to be easy and with giving myself a year I won't have to be stressed about getting it all finished in time. So with my blogs in the upcoming year they will mostly be about what recipes I cooked and my experiences with cooking them and eating them. So I hope that you all will keep me accountable with my new journey.

BB Guns

Okay, so it's interesting that here in the city of Fort Collins you are allowed to carry around a BB gun but once you decide to have a bit of fun and heck shoot it you have now broken a law. Within the city limits of Fort Collins it is illegal to shoot a BB gun since it is then considered a firearm.

My opinion is that if you are not endangering anyone else then heck by all means shoot your BB gun. Have fun with your "toy" in the privacy and safety of your own 6 foot fenced in back yard. It should be your freedom to do what you want.

Now however if it was a REAL gun then yes as a mother I would have a problem with that, BUT a BB gun doesn't do harm to things like a REAL gun does. A BB gun may sting or you may get bruised but it doesn't kill like that REAL gun would!

Post Christmas

Holy cow was it ever a busy household here. We had 13 people total, including us who live here (my mom, Bryan, my daughter and me). Surprisingly though it wasn't all that crowded like I thought that it was going to be. It was fun having all of the family around though.

Everyone arrived by Christmas Eve, we just hung out until we went to the Vineyard for the Christmas Eve service. For myself since I am not much of a church person anymore it didn't really do much for me but it is a tradition none the less. Next year though I think that it would be neat to go to a church that had a bell choir. I love hearing the songs that they play.

On Christmas morning it was good. The younger kids didn't wake everyone up at the crack of dawn wanting to open gifts. We all started to open gifts at around 9am. It was a bit crazy at first but then we got a system under control. I received a new camcorder. I have been wanting one for quite a while and I finally am a proud owner of the new Flip camcorder. It is so tiny. My daughter got what she asked Santa for... "A bike, please." She absolutely loves her new princess trike.

It is now 3 days after Christmas, everyone has gone back to their homes. We are back to our normal routines and it is quiet here once more. Don't get me wrong it was nice having everyone here but peace and quiet is nice to have too. We already took the tree down. It was nice having it up but it is also nice taking it down too. I guess maybe it is the feeling of Christmas is now over and the new year can start to begin.

With the new year I am not wanting to make those stupid resolutions of wanting to lose all this weight or something that I know I will never accomplish. So instead I am going to say that it would be nice to work on getting my tummy flatter this upcoming year, work on getting A's and B's in school, try to cook my way through a cookbook like Julie did in the movie Julie and Julia, and just to accept people for who they are.

So with that bein said I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas and hope that you all have a good week with bringing in the new year!!

There's a Giveaway Going on

Hey,

There is a giveaway going on!! Just go to Courtney's blog to learn more about it! Her sister does blog designs and is going to be giving one of her designs away in a drawing. So check it out and try to win!!

I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas...

So I guess it's going to be a white Christmas after all this year. I have mixed feelings about the weather though right now. One being I wish that it would go away so that family won't have to drive through this and so that Lexi can try out her new bike on Christmas morning. And the other I like it since with any new fallen snow it just seems so magical, like any dream that you have could come true that very moment. (I know I am a sucker when it comes to dreaming)

So here's to it being a white Christmas and let the Christmas music keep playing in my head while I drift off to dreamland. Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Updated Goals

Okay, so I am going to update my goals to start now and try to continue into the new year. And here they are!

To workout on the days that I am not going to school. The workouts can be anything from doing yoga at home or gym, running around the block, or anything else that comes to mind.

Go to school everyday unless I or some one else in the family is sick. I want to try to have a perfect attendance.
Along with going to school I want to try to get A's and B's in my classes. I know that it will take a lot of determination on my part along with lots of studying but I think that if I have you ladies to help keep me accountable and with me doing my part trying to make it happen I can do it!!

I would also like to start a new hobby that involves some sort of craftiness or something. If any of you have any ideas let me know.