Happy New Year!

It's been a little while since I've written, the holidays were a bit insane! Our Jr High New Year's sleepover was a huge success. We had 10 kids show up when last year there were only 5. It was a ton of fun, a little hyperactive but fun! My sister Joey and I were pretty exhausted the next day though. We didn't have a chance to sleep in so we decided to have a fun but unproductive day. We went and had a nice lunch at Maggiano's and spent the remainder of the day at one of my favorite places in the world, The Tattered Cover.
I made a few resolutions this year. It's not something I usually do, but I've never been a very disciplined person and that's something I'd really like to change. Plus this new year actually feels like a new start to me. After the trials of 2009 I'm so happy to make a lot of changes and lead a new life that starts now. As most of you know, one of my goals is to run the Colorado Marathon in May. Obviously that's not a New Year's resolution because I've been running for a while now and it takes a long time to build up to running 26.2 miles. But it is a more recent change in my life and I'm excited to complete that goal come May! The rest of my resolutions are silly little personal things, just better day to day habits that I've needed to implement.
I've been working on my jewelry a lot and now have a goal of being in the gallery I work at by February. It's totally attainable I just have to keep at it and find time to be in my studio. My brother and parents got me some more metalsmithing tools for Christmas, so I really have pretty much everything I need now to be fully operational! I still need mom to find that enameling kiln of her's though...I also got a Nikon digital camera for Christmas so I don't have to wait for Dan to take pictures! :) (He's way better at it than I am, but let's face it he's busy and if there's one thing I passed on to my dear brother it's procrastination) So pretty soon I'll post pictures of my latest jewelry on here. I'm also working on a mural for a kid's bedroom from church. It'll be super sweet when I'm done.
As far as music goes, I've really been enjoying WPA lately. It's Sean Watkin's (from Nickel Creek, always a favorite) new band. I've also been listening to the Wailin' Jennys, an old favorite but they've just fit my mood so well lately. I've been reading in Numbers lately. I'll write another post soon in more detail of what I've been getting out of my daily devotions.