A New Year

We welcomed the new year with a lot of silly string, Martinelli's, and food.

We started the evening with Cafe Rio takeout--now a die hard tradition.

Family came over and made the night complete.

This is how Scout looks whenever her favorite cousins leave...such a downer for her!

 Julia made sure that we kept the party going well after midnight. We had a HUGE silly string fight and I'm as grateful as ever for the new central vacuum system. It made clean up a cinch.

I'm excited for this year...

I'll be celebrating the big 40,

I'm working out like never before (thanks to my new friend Elizabeth at Gold's). 

Just when I think I might draw my last breath in a smelly gym or hurl all over some dumb bells, 

I miraculously make it through the workout. 

This is the year I will graduate from college...finally.

This is the year that I will coerce myself, the twins and Dan into running a half marathon with me. 

This is the year that Dan and I will meet one of our travel goals... I'm counting down the weeks.

I have several other goals that are on my mental list. However, I'm hoping by actually writing down some of them and posting them, it will keep me focused and motivated to follow through with it all.

Here's to 2011...