New Year's Resolutions

One of my New Year's Resolutions is to start blogging! I've been inspired by the people I know who blog, and it's a great way to keep up with family & friends I don't see often. Now people can keep up with me, too.

My other two major New Year's Resolutions are:

Start Running
This one was inspired partly by Alec and partly by my sister-in-law, Kate. Alec has been running for a while. He ran his first half-marathon in 2006 and in 2007 he ran a full marathon and 2 half-marathons. Since Kate and her husband, Erick, run, too, Alec asked them to run with him in the halves this year, but they couldn't do it.

Then, I got this crazy idea - what if I started running, too, and then all 4 of us could go to Disney World in January, 2009, and run the Disney Half-Marathon or Marathon? Alec said I'd never do it. I mentioned it to Kate on the phone over Thanksgiving and she was all for it. So now it's decided. We're going to Disney. Kate and I will run the half-marathon and Alec and Erick will run the full marathon. Well, I don't know that Erick has said for sure. But anyway, we're doing it. Kate has promised to keep up with this blog and help encourage me to meet my goals.

Oh, and my step-mother-in-law Julia is considering Disney, too! At first, she wasn't sure about it, so we told her there was also a 5K. She was thinking of that, but recently she said maybe she'd do the half-marathon.

Try one new recipe per week
I feel like we're getting in a rut with our meals. We have a lot of stuff we like, so I tend to make that over & over. I have all these great cookbooks, though, and get lots of recipe ideas from Food Network, magazines and the girls I chat with on a message board on The Nest. So, it's not that I don't have access to new ideas, it's just that I don't use them.

So, those are some of the things I'll be blogging about, plus life in general here in Texas!