RECHARGED RESOLUTIONS

yasssssssss it's 2016!!!!!

2015 was great...
Ben and Nina got married
Family Vacation/MiniReunion in Hawaii
Leila and Sefa started school
Sui, Nina, Candace all preggos
Rooci was born
Saleima was born
Tons of family during the holidays
Life lessons learned
and much more

......but we are so ready for this year!!!!


Like I mentioned in the last post, we were ending 2015 sort of in a trough before we got the RECHARGE that we needed over the winter holiday break. And now we are refocused, recommitted, re-energized (how many 're-' words can i think of?) and re-excited for this new year. And here's just a few of our many goals for 2016 :) in no particular order...

Family goals for 2016 :)

  1. Finish the Book of Mormon as a family.
  2. Finish memorizing Articles of Faith. Starting from January 2015 we worked to memorize a different Article of Faith each month. We are now on #13. So proud of Leila and Sefa because they work so hard to learn and memorize all 13 articles.
  3. Be on time. Like not just to church (9am church. 4 kids. Wish us luck!) but to everything.
  4. Visit/Talk to/Stay in Contact with FAMILY- with immediate family we're good at this, but with other relatives, not so much. We want to be better at keeping in contact with all our family.
  5. More Physical activities-  take the kids hiking, swimming, playing outside, start the kids basketball/football/judo/soccer/dancing training.

    ***Side story***
    So one day I showed Leila this video of Vince Harder singing with his two daughters (l    ook him up on youtube...he's BOMB!).
    Me: enthusiastically Leila you want to do a video of us singing like that?!?!

    Leila:     seriously Um but we're not a singing family.

    The Beyonce in My Head:     irritatingly Uhhhhxcuse me? do you know who your talking to?

    Me:     out loud So what kind of family are we? 

    Leila: We can be a drawing family. Oh but you don't draw.

    Me: What do I do?

    Leila: You...umm...you take care of everyone :)

    The Beyonce in My Head: oh ok that is true...and nice...but still she doesn't think I have a nice voice?!?

    Moral of the story: time to find out what our family "thing" is.

    hahaha Hence family goal #4...#fitfamily? #altheticfamily? #natureexploreres? hahahahha #alloftheabove? #noneoftheabove?

     okay i'm done.

    ***End of story***

 and carrying on....then of course we have our individual goals. This is what we're starting off with, but I'm sure more will surface and be added as we go through this year. 

Individual Goals

Aljay
  • Rooci- grow grow grow. It's going to be a busy year so hopefully grow but at a comfortable pace.
  • Hometeaching- Since our ward has split they haven't had their hometeaching assignments yet, but I think they just passed them out now so yay! lol
  • Take his beautiful wife out on a date every month (these are separate from Temple dates...and yes I added this one to his list...i could add anything really..Aljay doesn't really read the blog ahhaha)
  • Read our family blog. lol
Sandra
  • Read/study/ Ponder Book of Mormon (finish goal: June)
  • Get rid of Bertha, Helga, and Olgastein
    ***explanation***......okay so these are the three hideous plantar warts under my feet (and yes I named them). I'm not even kidding. The biggest one, big Bertha, has been under my right foot since college days....like before I was dating Aljay. Gross! And then these other two fwams just showed up two months ago!!! Bertha never bothered me or caused pain but these two new irrits hurt and make it so that I don't walk comfortably. So I am on a quest to get rid of these nuisances!!! [for some reason I can picture Brit or Candace laughing at me while reading this lol...jerks ahhaah jk]
  • Visiting Teaching- just got our new assignments and I'm excited to do Visiting Teaching!
  • Buy an electric piano keyboard and practice again. 

Leila & Sefa & Viiga

  • start learning a sport (soccer/basketball/judo/football/golf....whatever interest them)
  • brush teeth every day and night without needing reminders
  • start learning Polynesian dances

Saleima

  • sit up, crawl, walk
  • take a bottle
  • talk
  • the usual baby milestones lol
and now lastly.....

Husband & Wife Goals 

  • Get fit and healthy/Be more active/Bring sexy back hahaha...nah but really..I'm on break from pregnancy, so now we both don't have any excuses...there's going to be a separate post for this though cause it's about to get seerrrriousss #yearofthecomeback #comebackskinnybodies!
  • Temple twice a month
  • Eliminate debt and if possible....get completely out of debt :)
  • Fast/pray together more...this is separate from our family and individual prayers.

andddddddd there we go!!!! whew...glad I got it all down (yeah right I'm sure I'm missing crucial ones but I think this is a good start). Gosh now that I look at everything written I feel all obligated  hahaha #accountability #goalso'o Just kidding. 
It's going to be a good year.
 Time to achieve these goals!

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