Goal Update

These are the goals that we came up with at the beginning of the year.  We are hanging in there a little better than I thought...except for one section!  :-)

 Goals

• Family Goals
  
  • Create blog (or rebuild current blog) to allow weekly updates or more frequently.  -Mark
  • Update family blog weekly or more frequently.  -Nicole
  • Build, plant and eat from our own garden.  We started working on this but due to spring schedule craziness we just couldn't get our act together.  This may be on our list again for next year...
  • Take girls to the beach, either with Vern/Cindy or on our own. 
  • One weekend trip away without little ones (no matter how much we miss them). 
  • Host or plan community-building events once each month. 

• Spiritual Goals
  • Read Bible daily to complete Bible in 2013. 
  • Attend BSF. -Nicole
  • Memorize selected Psalms together.  We attempted one and then didn't follow through. 
  • Two verses memorized each month. -Caroline  We are memorizing with Caroline though. :-)
  • Read commentary on book of the Bible each quarter.  -Mark

• Service Goals
  • Serve on church committees. (Missions, women's committee, etc)
  • Take girls to nursing home once a month. I really wanted to do this but just haven't made it happen schedule wise.  I'm hoping to make some friends with some older ladies at church and then develop some relationships from there.
  • Foster care ministry. 
  • Go "under the bridges" with the church.  Still time to make this happen at least once!

• Physical Goals
• Running four miles twice per week on treadmill with long run on weekend. -Mark
• Workout four times per week alternating run, swim, weights. -Nicole
• Swim in a three-mile swim event. -Nicole
• Participate in sprint triathlon. -Nicole
• Swim 1/4 mile non-stop. -Mark
• Run two races as a family. 

Obviously, we have some work to do in the physical department.  Both of us want to do this but just not bad enough to make it happen I guess.  I can also say that my body is crazing physical exertion (crazy, right?) but it falls to the bottom of the list every single time.  There are only so many priorities that my little schedule can handle and I guess I just haven't made this one of them.  I'm still hopeful that I can find a way to get it in there.  It's hard to believe that at this time last year we were training for the half marathon!   We'll see....

Overall, I'm pretty thankful for where we are right now.  Still lots of ways to grow!