The Things I've Learned and New Resolutions

I loved 2018

So many adventures were had, goals met and memories made!

I don't use the topnine app cause I prefer to make my own, so these are
My Top 9 favorite highlights:
Riding in a hot air balloon (tethered to the ground),

Running 7 5K races this year, my favorite being the Haunted 5K in Provo,

Hiking Mt. Timpanogos with Kyle and making it to the top this time,
 Flying in Ben's airplane with Kasen,
 Riding the tube with Tai at Bear Lake,

Turning 30 and going on a cruise to celebrate that and

Kyle moving to a new detective position.
 I also read 14 new books (Thank you book club).

We also reached most of our 2018 goals I set last year:

We completed our emergency savings fund,

Got a fence,

Visited Cedar City Temple,

And potty trained Kasen!

We never did visit a new state, make jam, or finish the basement bathroom though...

My 2019 Resolutions:

Memorize the Living Christ

Run 5K in under 30 minutes

Visit the Monticello Temple
Read 24 new books
Potty train Tai
Send Kasen to pre-school and help him love it!

The Things I Learned in 2018:

1. What Diastasis Recti is and that I have it, but do not want to touch it.
2. While smoking a meatloaf, Kyle learned that 2 Tbsp. of salt is significantly different from 2 tsp. salt. 
3. I should never try to put stickers over my kids naked parts in snapchat because those parts will be turned into stickers and sent to group snapchats!
4. It is physically impossible for me to hold Peeka still long enough for a vet to give her shots.
5. A shop vac vacuums gravel out of grass beautifully.
6. Muddy Buddy ice cream at Rockwell Ice Cream was this years favorite.
7. Also, sugar cones aren't waffle cones and cake cones aren't sugar cones like I always thought.
8. Munchkin is Kyle's new favorite game.
9. My new favorite Celestial Room in the Temple is Las Vegas.
10. Stonehenge Fence charges $2707.00 to put up a white vinyl fence around our yard and it's been worth every penny.
11. A Sole f85 treadmill will not fit into a house without taking it completely apart and then using Hulk strength to put it back together again.
12. You don't have to go to the ER just because a paramedic in an ambulance tells you to. They won't hunt you down. But if you do go it will cost you $1250 just for passing out.
13. Winning HQ Trivia does not make you rich. Winning twice gave Kyle an increase of $2.63.
14. Rubbing alcohol works great at getting temporary tattoos off of your face, however, is does NOT get dry erase marker off fabric, despite what google may say.
15. Apparently people aren't supposed to feed bread to ducks? (But do they die?...)
16. Tai is scared of ducks, but not of walking in front of swings.
17. Do not hike 15 miles, for 9 hours in 8th grade cheer shoes, unless you want your toe nail to look like it may fall off. Whether or not it will is still TBD.
18. Kyle's fear of the edge is real.
19. League bowlers happen to be very mean old men.
20. High schoolers don't use Facebook, so don't try using it to plan one a surprise party. 
21. According to Kyle, turning 30 makes you too old for haunted houses.
22. Our car does not have a spare tire, but it does have a portable compressor in the trunk. 
23. The schedule for a property crimes detective is a bazillion times better than a patrol officers work schedule.
24. I can run 5K in 30:49 minutes!
25. My blood pressure is too low to donate blood, but not too low to donate plasma.
26. Even TWO mattress protectors will not save a mattress from being soaked in pee.
27. While dads are in charge, it takes "ten" minutes for 5 children to color on every wall of the Eason's basement. Also, magic erasers get crayon off walls. Thankfully!
28. Airbnbs are awesome! Especially cabin ones up in the mountains of Midway.
29. Kyle will swear in his sleep. 
30. If you put up a big enough fight, Sprint will figure out that they actually can transfer your old number to your new phone. It will take 3 weeks.
31. It takes 6 strings of Christmas lights to go around the whole roof of our house.
32. Ovulation kits do not work for me.
33. Truth is complicated.
34. What a podcast is and how to listen to one. 
35. How to make a time lapse video. 
36. You only have to read 18 pages a day to finish the Book of Mormon in 30 days. 
37. You can have the lowest prices and there will still be people that don't like your work and that is more than okay!
38. So far, I can go 1 year and 8 months without crying.

 Thursday night I took Kasen on a date to see The Grinch. It was his fist time going to a movie theater and he LOVED it! Even though his classic grump face here doesn't show it. He was all laughs watching it and driving home he said, "Mom, I had fun on our date!" Kyle was appalled that I brought some of our own Christmas candy with us though... He's very strict about the rules.

Happy New Year!