:: New Year - goals and a free printable

About a week ago, we were finally able to write down our goals for the new year.

A terrible cold that came my way, got into the way of anything and everything.

But we wrote them down even if some were in their princess dresses.

Last year I found a printable where we could write about our past year and our goals for the upcoming year, but for some odd reason, I didn't pin it!
One for children and one for adults.

So, I just made my own for my kids.

The link can be found here.

I love that little Ava is finally able to write her own.

Her goals are pretty cute.
"Learn how to sew" and her biggest goal was "to be obedient".  Ha!

She'll thank me later . . . I'm sure of it.

:: New Year's Goals

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!

My Christmas is finally put away (sniff, sniff) and the house

is looking back to normal.

The other night, we had a Family Home Evening about goals.

While explaining to my 4 year old what a goal is, I realized that

I have many to work on this year.

We each filled out our goals and will be keeping it in a family binder.  

At the beginning of each month we'll go through each of 

our goals to see how we're doing.

Hopefully this will help us be accountable for the goals we actually made

at the beginning of the year.

(cause I usually forget about my goals by the end of January)

I came across this free printable from Kiki and Company and I absolutely love it!

You write your goal on the top and because they say that it takes 21 days to form a habit,

every day when you finish that goal, just cut off the bottom number.

Genius!

Go here to print these out.

Card Obsession: Giveaway!!!

One of my New Year's Resolutions is to send a birthday card to all of our family members (parents, grandparents, siblings, nieces, nephews) throughout the year. Buying birthday cards at the store can be a little expensive. So I decided to make my own using a picture I'd taken. Then with the photo editing software (http://www.picnik.com/ - - free by the way) I use, placed a little message. At http://www.vistaprint.com/ they have a deal for postcards - - 100 postcards (you make yourself) for cheap! So I'd decided to use this photo below for the postcards.

I just received them in the mail today and was so excited to see the finished product.

And now, since I have a ton of birthday postcards, I've decided to do a giveaway. Woohoo!

The winner will receive 15 of these birthday postcards (including the envelopes).

So . . . onto the rules:

This giveaway starts on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 10 p.m. (PST)

and will end on Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 10 a.m. (PST)

The winner will be announced on Friday, February 5, 2010 on this blog.

One winner will be chosen randomly.

Open to everyone! One entry per person.

On February 5, after the winner is announced, the winner will need to leave me their e-mail address in the comment section so I can contact that person. If not, a new winner will be chosen randomly.

All you have to do is:

1. leave a comment of the last time you sent out a birthday card (I will be the first to admit that it's been a very long time for me).

And if you like this blog, go ahead and follow us!

Good luck!

(And for my family members who had b-days in January . . . they will be arriving shortly.)