Eight Months

Age: 8 months

Height: 28 3/4 inches (unofficially)

Weight: 20 pounds (unofficially)

Seriously these months just blow on by. At eight months Isaac is doing pretty much the same as he was at seven months. I am just going to assume that this means by nine months he'll have some sort of growth spurt or learn how to do back flips. Something amazing.

For now he is pretty much the same size. His sleeping schedule is totally out of whack due to the insane holiday season. So we stay up very late and watch a lot of TV. He is eating everything, without any teeth. None. We call him Toothless now, he's watched How to Train Your Dragon a few times. He also has learned how to crawl the stairs, and quickly too.

So yeah.

30 Things: 2012 List

Inspiration. Usually I associate the word with things of a more spiritual nature. But, today I looked up the word for a more official perspective on its meaning. According to my computers dictionary, inspiration means the following: the process of being mentally stimulated, especially to do something creative. Mental creativity. I can do that. 

Last year I made a list of a few things I wanted to accomplish. I thought them up. Wrote them down (because that means you'll actually do them). And... that was it. Last year, along with other specific goals, I really wanted to focus on just doing my best. Which I feel I did okay with. But as I wrote 2012 down for the first time, I realized that I thought the previous year was 2010. My brain obviously skipped a year. I was slightly panicked, wondering if I wrote 2010 down on my son's birth certificate. Needless to say I need to get my brain in gear this year.

So, I have this friend from a few wards back. I stalk her blog. She made a list last year too. She did much better with her list than I did mine. I liked her list. I liked her goals. I liked how she made it all happen with a plan. So I am going to copy her. 

Thanks go out to Katie Harris for inspiring me to be mentally creative.

I made two lists of things to do this year, gulp. One is for Brett and I to work on together and the other is for just me. My list ranges from things I have been meaning to get around to doing, to things that I should do but don't, and things that I want to do to be a better human being. The plan here is accomplish as many of the things on my list as I can. Each month I'll sit down and decide what needs to be done, and how I want to go about doing them. Hopefully, do them. Then, bore you with a monthly report.

Anyways, enough with me putting random sentences together.

Chesca's Thirty

Involved Projects

1. Make a chalk board menu for the kitchen

2. Make a furniture piece for my family room

3. Finish decorating the nursery

4. Make laundry soap

5. Do one Pinterest inspired project per month

6. Fix the finish on my office desk

7. Refinish/find furniture for master bedroom

8. Paint the hallway upstairs

9. Put up a cork bulletin board/wall in the office

10. Paint the wall I missed in the family room

11. Put together a memory box for Isaac

Spiritual Things

12. Read the Book of Mormon, twice

13. Attend Enrichment Night, at least four times

14. Read every conference talk for the year

15. Put up a picture of the temple and of the Savior in every room

Organizational Happiness

16. Make and keep a cleaning schedule

17. Relocate dog kennels

Things Concerning Taste Buds

18. Cook a turkey

19. Try a new recipe once a month

20. Poach an egg

Things for Me and My Well Being

21. Read four new books

22. Get in really good shape

23. Learn a new piano song

24. Go to the dentist

25. Go to the optometrist

Miscellaneous 

26. Hang Brett's Diploma

27. Document my cousin's mission

28. Find a use for a vintage light bulb

29. Get a pedicure

30. Make my herb garden look pretty

Bresca's Thirty

Involved Projects

1. Finish the laundry room makeover

2. Attempt to refinish the piano

3. Finish the carpet in the master bedroom

4. Glue down the vinyl in the master bedroom

5. Fix the pavers in the front yard

6. Install a fan in the spare bedroom

7. Finish the carpet downstairs

Spiritual Things

8. Really try go to the temple once a month

9. For one month, go to the temple once a week

10. Invite a non-member to a church function

11. Have family scripture study and prayer, daily, for one month

12. Read the Book of Mormon together from beginning to end

13. Study Preach My Gospel

14. Hold FHE regularly

Organizational Happiness

15. Stick to a meal plan

16. Do not overspend  our budget

17. Pay something off

18. Keep the garage clean

Things Concerning Taste Buds

19. Cook Ukrainian food

Things for Us and Our Well Being

20. No TV/media for a week

21. Go to the beach

22. Go camping

23. Hike an Arizona mountain

24. Have date night once a month

Miscellaneous 

25. Watch the three best movies of all time

26. Watch the three worst movies of all time

27. Give away the black couch

28. Replace the outlet in the office

29. Plant a tree

30. Get CPR cetrified

So there you go. We better get moving.

Dear 2011

I like to recap what Brett and I accomplished the previous year, cause let's be honest, the year usually goes by in a massive blur. I also have a less than perfect memory and I don't want to feel like a complete bum who watching several TV shows a weeks.

But before I get into that, let me just briefly tell you how we celebrated to the New Year. We played XBox all night. With Casey. Modern Warfare Three. I know we are lame. We didn't even countdown or anything. Oh well.

2011...

We visited Utah and Washington DC.

Brett turned 25.

I turned 23.

Krista and the kids came to visit.

I spray painted my car.

Isaac was born.

Isaac learned to crawl.

We all got really sick.

Brett a promotion.

Brett graduated from college.

We installed new floors in out bedroom.

I refinished some office furniture.

We installed on pavers in the backyard.

We gardened, kind of.
Casey came to visit.

Well. It seems like a small list, but adding Isaac to the family was so wonderful and it really kept us busy enjoying him. Can't wait for everything to do this year!