I just got back from a lovely weekend visiting my friend in Virginia. Pictures of that will soon grace this page.

I've been thinking a lot about resolutions and I have realized that I have never been much of a resolution person. Yeah, every year I go along with everyone else and say I'll eat healthier and work out more and try to work on myself, but here I am still the same weight as I was last year. I am a different person than last year, but I think that change happened naturally, not just because I set a goal to do it. I have finally decided upon a goal that I think I can handle. I'll let you know how it goes, but for now, it's a personal goal for myself and I don't quite feel the need to share it.

I did come upon this and have decided I don't want to die with these regrets. So I guess that's another goal of mine, not just for the year though, but for the rest of my life. Care to join me on that one?

Merry Christmas! I'm too sad for words about the fact that there is going to be no snow for Christmas, but at least we have our decorations up to keep our Christmas spirit up.

Our Christmas Tree

Little Christmas Village. My lovely mother painted all the little houses

Great Grandma made this little delight. So excited to inherit it. And yes, this is the one thing I have requested to have when my mom dies. 

Our Santa collection, that the mother made. I have requested to inherit these as well.

To get a little more into the spirit as well, last Sunday the papa, brother and I went up to listen to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. We do this every year and it's always so great. This year we listened to Robert Gunn and Jane Seymour.

My dog is so weird. We put this jacket on him and he would not move. Even when we put his food in front of him he just sat and started and it, along with quite a few little whimpers.

I think that if my life were ever made into a movie, this song would need to be in it.

new song obsession. same artist.

Saw this and kind of loved it.

           When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it.

-Horace Rutledg-

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