January 2020 New Year Resolutions and Moving Bedrooms

I love the churches new youth program that has individuals choosing, planning and working on spiritual, physical and intellectual goals. It's based off a scripture in Luke where Christ grows in wisdom (intellectual), stature (physical), and with God (spiritual) and man (social). 

I am a very goal oriented person and I write down my goals daily so they're continually before me, so I was super excited when my kids were challenged to do something similar. So on January 1, we all wrote down our goals for each area, and then that night we each shared at least one of our goals with the family. We plan to have them review their goals weekly during our Sunday family council meeting. 

I took this picture and texted it to my sister Becca. She said I never sweat when I exercise, and I wanted to show her that I do in fact sweat. A lot. 

Scott and I enjoy playing games on occasion, and the younger kids recently joined us in a game of Bananagrams. Fun was had by all. 

Annabelle and Elisabeth have been asking to have their own room for quite some time, and we recently allowed them to do that. Annabelle moved to the bedroom on the main floor, and Elisabeth switched bedrooms with Jane and Nora (as theirs was smaller). It was a lot of work over a couple of days, but we worked on it while they were still on Christmas break and got it all done. This was a 'before' of the room Annabelle moved into.

And a 'before' of Jane and Nora's room.

'Before' of Elisabeth and Annabelle's room. Also, Annabelle's twin bed frame had broken a month before, so she'd been sleeping with her mattress on the ground, but when she moved, she was able to use the daybed we had down in that room.

'After'- Jane and Nora's room.

'After'- Elisabeth's room. 

'After' - Annabelle's room.

One of my roommate's from BYU, Jessie, was in town visiting from CA, so we met up, last minute, for half hour and chatted while we drank smoothies at Jamba Juice. I am so grateful for all the roommates I had while at BYU. I feel like God hand picked each and every one of them as they were all blessings in my life(and still are) .