53. Send homemade birthday cards to everyone in my family for 1 year

Failed!

August is such a hard month to remember birthdays. There are too many birthdays and I fell behind on sending out cards.

I have no excuse, a message is sent to me a couple days before reminding me and my cards are already made.

Sorry Jex & Isaac, I think I missed you guys.

So here is my plan.

I am going to start over again starting in September and go through August of 2011. (Sshh, don’t tell,  but there are no birthdays in September so I have it made for awhile)

Hopefully, by next August I will be a pro at sending out cards.

26. Cook something new every night for 1 week

This is the week for new recipes!

2 recipes down, 5 to go.

Stay tuned for the results…

25. Go to a concert of an artist/band I've never seen

This isn’t working out for us too well.

First, Bono cancels the U2 concert.

Then, we missed Country Throwdown because of the rain. Which ended up as a night of blue skies just as the concert was starting and we were pulling back into our driveway.

Next, we went to Tim McGraw and sat by drunks. However, this concert doesn’t count because I have already seen Tim in concert.

And just a couple of weeks ago we completely spaced that it was the Toby Keith Concert and missed it completely. UGH! (I can’t say much more than this because I am still too upset.)

Let’s just say it is not our summer for concerts.

My only hope of completing this goal this summer is the Brad Paisely concert on September 24th. Can someone call and remind me so I won’t space it this time?

Sigh.

17. Take Luke to Disneyland for his birthday

We are all booked and ready to go. Can’t wait for November!!

90. Learn how to edit photos using Photoshop

I had to change this goal a little.

A couple of weeks ago I was talking to a girl in my ward and we were discussing digital scrapbooking. She told me I should use Picnik.com to edit my photos. She said it is very user friendly and free.

I decided I needed to try it out because I wasn’t getting anywhere with Photoshop. I have to say I am converted as far as editing goes.  I am not a photographer, I only use a digital camera so I didn’t need much, but it is nice to be able to edit the pictures a little bit.

Here is a picture I tweeked just a little to give it a rustic feel.

 

50. Buy a house

Well, it is actually considered a townhouse, but it is still a house and we are so very excited about it. It will be finished at the end of August and then the fun begins…moving.

14. Bear my testimony 4 times in one year

Second time done…and it isn’t getting easier. This time I chose to bear my testimony again in RS. I just absolutely loved testimony meeting in Sacrament on the 4th of July. It was a very powerful meeting. Every testimony touched me very deeply and strengthened my own testimony that I needed to say that in RS. Hopefully the next time will be in Sacrament. It will just need to be a time when emotions aren’t close to the surface, no one wants to see that :)

10. Get caught up on digital scrapbooking

I don’t think you can ever be caught up on scrapbooking as long you are still taking pictures, but I would like to be working on pictures from the year we are actually living in.

Recently I switched over to digital scrapbooking and I love it. It still takes me just as long, but without the mess. I just got my first book printed to give to Jared for his birthday. It was a book dedicated to our dating months. I think it turned out great, however we dated in 2008 so I am 2 years behind plus a baby book to do. I have a long road ahead.

Here is a little preview of how the book turned out:

77. Take a picture of Luke everyday for 1 month

I started doing this when Luke turned 6 months. Today Luke is 7 months old. It has been fun taking a picture of him everyday.

Here is the picture from day one:

Here is the picture from today:

He has quite the personality. Here are some of my favorite throughout the month:

I am going to try and continue to take lots of pictures of Luke. I love going back and looking at them. I have slacked off on taking video of him though so now I need to catch up on that!

22. Get stomach looking like it was pre-baby

Yesterday I had a Dr.’s appointment and they had to check my weight. I was happy to see that I am officially back down to the weight I was before I was pregnant. Hooray!!

Sorry no pictures will be taken of my stomach :)