I am so so excited for 2023, which maybe should be concerning because I was super excited thinking 2020 was going to be a great year in January……

It’s been a few years a VERY lackluster running, plagued with injury, pain, disappointment and lots of excuses. Between babies, toddlers and pandemics I really let the athlete side of me slide and it’s something I have really missed. I am determined to get back to working on things for myself this year. It’s not that I couldn’t make time for myself in past years, I just didn’t. I let other things take up my mental and physical energy. But I need to focus on my health, get back to feeling physically strong and capable and back to doing the things I love. It will be better for me and my family. 

With that my goals for 2023 are:

Personal goals:

1. Finish my 10th Marathon
2. Run a 50 miler 
3. Make room! Everything has a place and everything in it’s place.It is time to declutter. 
4. Join the 4am club – better sleep habits.
5. Run every day – I would love to complete a full year run streak, but this will be the first one to go if it has to because of injury or family needs. 
6. PT/strength everyday build a solid strength training routine
7. Make one video a week.
8. Calm + gentle parenting 
9. Learn about travel hacking
10. Spend quality time playing with my kids and enjoying them while they are still young.

Anyone want to virtual join a 4/5 am run club?

What are your goals for 2023? I would love to hear about them!

We’re loving winter break, choosing fun adventures and being with our friends. We had a 60 degree day so we made sure to make the most of it and spend lots of time outside.

We joined some friends and spent a couple hours and a super fun playground.

Then we came home for lunch and played a little Mario Party that Emmy got for Christmas. I am not a huge fan of video games but the kids love them and a little bit can’t hurt.

Then we went out for a hike because I wanted to get our bodies moving.

The trail was sloppy but that’s not too big of a deal, the kids loved it. I always bring extra shoes and plastic bags in the car when we hike in case our shoes are super dirty. We definitely needed them today.

I LOVE goals, I set them (and sometimes break them) all the time. It was fun setting and meeting our goals in 2022, so now we are going to hopefully do the same with our 2023 goals.

We worked on our list together and tried to focus on goals that align with our values and create the life of our dreams. Our family values include: Time outside, travel, adventure, staying active, practicing kindness and being together. 

Here are our 2023 family goals:

If you make family goals I would love to hear some!

We had a nice quiet boxing day, which was much needed because our house was a disaster. I have no idea how we caused so much chaos in half a day.

We spent some time outside playing on our new scooters with sparkly new helmets. The best presents are ones that help get us outside!

I can’t believe how good Emmy is on this thing already!

Cannon also is already a pro!

Cory volunteered to take some floor duties at work this week but we were so exctied to take the kids bowling for the first time.

We met Cory’s family and had the best time playing arcade games, blowing (badly) and eating surprisingly good bowling alley food.

Other than having fun we have been talking about our family goals but before we set them I wanted to check in on our 2022 family goals.

One of our goals was to hit 1200 hours outside, and while I didn’t track as well as I did in 2021 I do know we hit this goal some time late this year.

Another goals was to camp this summer in our local area, and this one was easy we love our Colorado mountains in the summer.

We set the goal of 30 nights in Kermit (our camper) and we made it 40 nights. Pretty proud of that especially since we spent another 16 nights in an RV in Europe and 20 nights in hotels.

We set the goal to travel abroad and we achieved that by traveling to Mexico in May and Europe in August/September.

And our last goal was to just slow down, enjoy the mundane times, and stress less. Not sure if we met this goal or not but I think it should go on the list again because life is for enjoying!

I think we nailed the goals this year and I am excited to see what we can get up to in 2023!

How was your 2022? Did you set family goals?

The last month of the year is here and I am so excited for all the magic!

Things I am most looking forward to this month:

• Everything Christmas obviously
• All the fun baking
• Getting up skiing for the first time and seeing the mountain towns at Christmas
• Hopefully getting to celebrate with family

My goals for December are to:

• Enjoy time with family
• Get my long run up to 10 miles
• Run + PT every day
• Make our Elves of the Shelf as much fun as possible
• Take time, slow down and enjoy this season
• Plan out our 2023 camping and travel
• Stay healthy, but we don’t always have control over this

Last year we spent Christmas away from home on a super epic trip through New Mexico, Arizona and California. Spending Christmas Eve and Christmas Day was a dream come true. We were thinking of going on another trip this year right after Christmas but the weather isn’t as easy this year and Cory’s work is needing more so we might not. A little disappointed but I just need to start planning our next big trip so I have something to look forward to.

I feel like November went by in a flash and I don’t even know what we did. The second half was definitely a bummer with being sick but as of tomorrow we should be free to go out and start enjoying all the December festivities.

What are your plans for this December? Any big travel plans?

I am so excited for a fresh year and some new family goals. Last year we made our big goal of 1000 hours outside:

Our goal this year is to be outside more this year than last year. Our total for 2021 was 1190 so our goal is at least 1200 hours for 2022. This will be a challenge because Cannon will start school full time in August so being outside will need to be very intentional.

Another goal is camp and explore our local area. We are planning on spending more of our vacation time abroad this year so our camping time will be weekends more close to home.

Last year we spent 55 nights in our camper! I would be happy if we make it above 30 nights this year.

As mentioned above we also want to travel abroad this year. We have had trips postponed since 2020 and we are really really hoping we can start showing these kids the world again.

Our last goal is to just slow down, enjoy the mundane times, and stress less.

It’s finally February! January is usually my least favorite moth of the year so it takes the longest to pass. With the holidays being over, and it being so cold and dark I start looking forward to spring early. I am trying not to wish the time away as Emmy’s first year is going way to fast!

I just read that this weekend we are half way between the winter solstice and spring equinox—we are half way there!

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In February I have a few goals I would like to accomplish:

• Run 150 miles – I am not continuing my run streak goal into February because of our trip to Disneyland and I think running while we are in Disneyland would be really stressful to fit in. With that in mind I am setting a milage goal instead. I do plan to return to a 50 day streak when I return so that should be fun.
• Strength train AT LEAST twice a week. This is a must do!
• Spin Class twice a week (after this week, I get a pass while traveling)
• Continue to write six days a week – This was a goal from January and I have really enjoyed writing more and sharing more from my day-to-day life. Now I just need to remember to take more photos.
• Cook twice a week, three times would be better.

A quick check-in on how my goals from January went (you can see the original post HERE)

• Run everyday in January, I talked about this more here. I would give myself an A- on this one. I think I missed 2 to 3 days and at first I felt like a failure because of that but when I think about it I did  run at least 90% of the days in January and that is pretty good.
• Write 6 days a week – hopefully this one will last for more than just January. You may have noticed that posts have been a lot more frequent here on this ‘lil old blog. One of the best ways to get better at something is consistent practice. So writing most days of the week will hopefully help me improve as well as create a fun way to look back at this time in life. We have such a fun adventurous year planned I want to capture it all. Again I think this deserves an A- I posted Monday -Saturday and I think I missed a Thursday. I am pretty pleased with that.
• Cook dinner at least three days a week – Cory has always been our main cook, he is better at it and enjoys it more. But it’s nice for him to come home from work and get to play with the kids instead of start cooking straight away. Again hopefully practice leads to improvement. Hmmmmmm, I think I get a C- on this one. I did great the first couple of weeks then fell off the last 10 days, so I will say room for improvement and keep working on it. 

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Do you set goals for yourself then check in on your progress? Any big goals for this month?