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and snowing and snowing here!
It looks beautiful on the trees and out in the yard!
 
and the dog loves to play in it

although I think even he is getting tired of it and its only January!

  
SIMPLIFY AND ENJOY LIFE

Today marks 7 years since I quit smoking!  Still hard to believe when even I never saw myself quitting, but today I can't imagine ever going back to smoking!
 
Sunday was Zach's last day of winter break so the kids and I decided to head out to lunch and a movie.  There are so many movies out right now that I want to see and yet I wanted to pick something that both kids would enjoy.  We ended...

Here we go with a new year and getting back to scrapping.  I had a blast creating my layouts with my January Work in Progress kit.
 
This picture is old and kinda fuzzy, but I love it just the same.  It has my Grandmother, father and brother who are no longer with us, my aunt and my cousin who are in California and me in overalls... okay maybe not the overalls.  but everything else I totally...

New Year's Eve 2010 was a wonderful night!  I spent the evening with family and friends eating, drinking and laughing.... lots of laughing!

 We started the evening with dinner at Corkscrew Saloon.  We had 5:30 reservations and it was so nice to just walk in and get a table.  We went around the table with everyone sharing their favorite thing that they did/happened in 2009 and their resolutions...

Wow, its 2010... sometimes hard to believe when you look back to how much has changed...  

 
This year the changes for me are going to include simplifying my life and after considering all of my options SIMPLIFY was the word that kept speaking to me.
It means getting rid of many of the things you do so you can spend time with people you love and do the things you love. It means getting rid...

 
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Looking forward to 2010!  Happy New Year!

Resolutions, habits or changing things.   They say for a new habit to form you need to repeat it 
You can read more about 6 changes here and figure out your 6 things.
Here are my six of which I plan to implement one at a time by focusing strongly on one of the changes.
Work out and running - I want to continue this habit of running and exercising.  I have a goal of 500 miles in the year to...

Movies I saw in the theater 2009
Monsters VS AliensUpThe ProposalMy sister's keeperThe ugly truthJulie and JuliaThe hangoverTime Travelers wifeThe blind sideUp in the airOut on DVD
confessions of a shopaholicHe's just not that into youNew in town
Books read in 2009
Out stealing horses by Per PettersonKentucky Rich by Fern Michaels (currently reading)The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks The middle...

My goals for a better 2010
Read 50 booksI got closer this year and plan to make my goal in 2010
Photo project for year I've done Project 365 for two years now, need something new/different
Run 500 miles  got this one from Jill and I think it will be a great way to track my running
Reuse, Recycle, Reduce wasteusing recyclable bags or paper
Reduce debtset up a plan for paying of debt one bill...

Grateful - sometimes I have a hard time saying it out loud...why?  Well, the Christmas before we lost Ryan I remember sharing with my mother in law how happy I was, how I literally felt so happy that I feared something bad happening and just 2 months later we lost Ryan.  So for the past 17 years I almost cringe after speaking of my happiness or being grateful for anything, for if I do I may jinx...