New Year’s Resolutions

This is a little bit of a late post for New Year’s resolutions, but I just figure this way we have already made progress on them! Andrew and I spent our drive back from Christmas with my parents talking about what we wanted to do this year. We made a list (we both love lists!) and have been slowing working down the list…here it is:

Get out more – Andrew almost never left a mile radius of the house last semester. He mostly went to school and back, school and back. So we came up with things we want to do:

• Camping/Hiking: We got a lot of cool camping stuff for the wedding. So we need to use it! Since deciding this we’ve been to McKinney Falls State Park and Enchanted Rock State Natural Area. We also are planning to “climb” up Mt. Bonnell and Inks Lake State Park.

• Day Trips: We put on our list trips to the Blue Bell Ice Cream factory, Shiner, TX, and tubing, but are open to other suggestions also.

• Vacation: In March we are headed to Paris for a week and are really excited about it. I have a “Learn French” podcast but it’s not going that well. Communicating will be interesting, but we have some good bike trips planned with a company based out of Austin. Should be fun!

Volunteer- we looked into a lot of different options and decided to volunteer once a month with the Austin Parks Foundation. They didn’t have any January volunteer opportunities, but we are going to volunteer starting this month. We are also signed up to volunteer in two weeks with Marathon Kids. It should be fun!

Eating Healthy: We (mostly) eat things that are healthy. I just don’t think we eat enough vegetables. So I have been trying when I cook to make sure we have at least two veggies on the plate, and that I leave veggies for Andrew to eat while I’m gone. Sometimes they get eaten, sometimes they don’t.

We’ll see how we do the rest of the year! Hopefully we stick with them.