Goal #1 Category: Health---Try at least 2 new healthy recipes a month
I did pretty well at this, with the exception of October, which is the Month We Shall Not Speak Of. I made up for it by trying several new recipes a month over the summer, when I had no life. Last night I made Brazilian black bean burritos, recipe courtesy of my friend Beez. They were a pretty big hit around these parts. Last week I tried a crock-pot Hawaiian meatball recipe from pinterest that garnered a "thanks for trying" response. You win some, you lose some. I give myself an A on this goal.
Goal #2 Category: Financial--- Save $X amount each month
Erik and I had a goal to save a certain amount of money each month. I thought it would be tacky to say the amount on my blog. Anyways, in April we also switched to a commission plan at the dealership, which made this goal much more interesting. We saved a little more or a little less some months, but overall we've exceeded our savings goal for the year. It was a group effort. Erik rocked it at the dealership and I got too sick to go shopping. Way to go team. A on this one.
Goal #3 Category: Social: Make more girlfriends
Is it pathetic that this was one my goals? Ummm kind of. But it took me a long time to feel integrated after we moved here. I was pretty busy last year and didn't really put myself out there to make friends, and it was a little lonely. I didn't want that this year, I wanted girlfriends to have lunch dates with and to borrow cans of chicken broth from. I lucked out because I made some great friends this year. Last year Erik would insist I had friends when I whined about how I didn't, so I came up with this criteria for determining friend vs. acquaintance: A friend is someone you feel comfortable calling up to do something that same day and who you feel comfortable borrowing/asking favors from. Under this definition I have 5 good friends in the neighborhood. I'll take it. A on this one too.
Goal #4 Category: Spiritual-- Go to the temple 4 times, read the Book of Mormon with Erik, have 100% visiting teaching
And......the party ends here. We went to the temple twice. The temple is about 2.5 hours from here, so it's kind of an all day thing. We were planning on going a lot in the fall because it's a rough drive during the winter and during the summer we selfishly spent all our time at the lake. Unfortunately I was sick all fall, and now I don't think I could make it through a whole session without having to pee....so we failed at this one. Erik and I started out reading the Book of Mormon together, then decided we would read the same amount of chapters each week and talk about them on Sunday, and then just decided to read it individually. So yes I read it, but not with Erik. However I was pretty good about scripture reading overall this year, so B--. I did pretty well with visiting teaching, but even though I visited every month I don't feel like I was a huge service to any of my sisters, so i give myself a B+ on that one. Overall my spiritual GPA: 76%, C
Goal #5 Category: Work/School-- Finish 21 credits toward MPA
Not a lot to say about this one. I did it. I have two classes left next semester and then I'm done. A.
Goal #6 Category: Family-- Two goals here: 1) make Erik lunch twice a week, 2) Get pregnant
Goal 1. was a fail. While it's healthier and cheaper for me to make Erik lunches, turns out I cannot compete with the local BBQ shack, and this goal pretty much fizzled. I have been pinning healthy and creative packed lunches and may or may not try for this goal again next year. F
Goal 2. We accomplished. Of course now we are questioning the wisdom of that decision, but technically we met our goal. A. Average for family goals: C
Two C's and 4 A's. Brings my GPA to 88.3 for the year. Not amazing, but I really did think having our goals posted on the mirror helped me work harder and keep them in mind this year. We are going to discuss next year's goals on the drive back from Boise (the drive to Boise is reserved for talking about baby names and creating a plan for buying all the baby stuff we need. I love road trips. Erik does not).
To avoid a pictureless blog post I'm sticking in this picture of my cheerleaders from their Christmas routine. Due to last minute injuries we had to make some adjustments to the pyramid, but I was proud of how well the new girls handled it. It was a decently tricky pyramid sequence. Cheer in this area is kind of weird, we have tryouts for football season and then again for basketball season, so several of these girls have only been cheerleaders for like 3 weeks. They were adorable.
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