My 2022 New Year Goals.

 

Hi Friends.  Did you know there are 302 days until Christmas? 

One of my new year goals is to count down to Christmas everyday so that I have

to think about something to photograph and to show myself that I have done different things every day.

I think this is because Christmas is the busiest time for me at work and when it is over

I often say "we are going to blink and it will be Christmas again." 

So if you follow me on Instagram and you have been wondering

why does she keep posting photos with these little Christmas gnomes that is the reason.

Goal number 2:  To continue to go on weekly dates with my husband.

I have been taking the gnomes on our dates, my husband rolls his eyes at this

but hey they want to go on adventures too.

Our most recent adventures have been to Antelope Island.

We love being out in nature, doing hikes and seeing the wild life.

I'm glad for my zoom lens as we do not get close to the wild animals.

Goal 3: Track my goals.  I got a little  notebook and I write my daily goals in it

for the week, and I also write 3 things I am grateful for. 

Goal 4: Read something spiritual everyday.

Goal 5:  Continue with staying fit.  I have this great indoor bike,

it took me awhile to get used to sitting on it, but once I got over that I have been

biking about 5 days a week.  It came with a fitness program. "IFIT"  I love this program.

I love that I can be in my home and have trainers and also bike all around the world. 

With this program I do bike rides and yoga.  The instructors are so motivational, I am getting

physically fit and mentally fit.  I also do YES.FIT challenges.  These are virtual races and when you finish you get a prize mailed to you.  I love these programs.

Goal 6: Learn to make a quilt and help my daughter with a sewing project.

I have a lot of quilts that are falling apart and I am having a hard time

giving them up, so I am going to try and cut a block from each of the old quilts and 

make a new quilt.

Goal 7:  Do things that make me happy.  I am creating a pretty cool 

Halloween costume.  ( I know it's February and I am making a Halloween costume, but

what I am making will take a long time to put together.)

Goal 8: Organize my photography.

Goal 9:  Make books of my favorite photos.

I love goal planning.  Looking back to last year I actually reached a lot of my goals.

I became debt free!  I started learning to do yoga!

I had many fun dates with my husband. 

The best way to achieve your goals is to work on them a little bit 

every day. 

I hope to blog more this year.  That is something that I didn't do much last year.

I hope you are all well and the first two months of this year have found you in good health.

G.G.

Our Bowlby Family Christmas Letter 2021

 

Merry Christmas to all our family and friends.

The truth is this year I did not write a Bowlby family Christmas letter!

This is our card for the year.  I have to say I like this Christmas card design,

The last three years of cards have had the same design, with different photo's and different

colors for the background, but the Christmas tree shape is the same. I love "Shutterfly"!!

The last 7 months have been very busy for me, and I decided that most people who 

I sent a Christmas card to would just get the card and no letter.

A few people got a small personal letter on the back of their card.

So here is what our family has been doing in 2021..

Here we are last winter.  We did a lot of outdoor dates because you can

be mask free outside.  I was thinking last winter we were all excited because soon

there would be a vaccine and we would be mask free by July.  Here we are in 

December and still wearing masks, I'm getting ready to sign up for the booster vaccine, but

even with that you still need to wear a mask.  I was promoted where I work this past spring.

I love my job.  I enjoy all the aspects of my job and I enjoy working with the people in

my little department. When I am not working I spend my time going on dates with my husband, and 

doing photography.  I got a new fitness bike this August and just love my new fitness program.

2021 has been a good year for me, I feel blessed. 

We celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. 

We had 25 love songs for 25 years of marriage.

Jim had a nice year of fixing old cars, and visiting with friends,

he even went to New Jersey to visit family and friends.

He is still working for the same company and has a lot of friends at work. 

Both of our children are doing excellent in college.

It was nice for them to actually have classes on campus.

Our daughter is double majoring in Business and Japanese.

Our son has not selected his major yet.

He really wants to be in an animation program, and

while he did excellent in his classes, he was not

chosen to be in the program, he is trying to get in again.

He for now is studying language translation.

Our little family has been blessed these past two years.

We have had our health, we have had jobs, we have

had time together.  Our little world is full of light and laughter.

There is a Perfect Present, it is not being in the past or looking into the future.

It is living in the moment.

I am thankful for the great gift of the Savior and the light he gives to all of us.

I hope you all take time out of your busy lives to stop and think of all your many blessings this Christmas.

Merry Christmas

From the Bowlby family.

The great sorting of my photo's begins.... Some favorite Christmas photos.

 

The Great Salt Lake and City Creek Canyon. Two nice dates with my husband June 2021

 

A few weeks ago my husband and I went walking

at The Great Salt Lake.  

I made a stone sculpture.  Mine is the one closest to you, 

I wish I could claim that I made the one further back.

In Scotland these are called Cairn. I see them

almost everywhere I go hiking. 

We had a nice walk, despite the little bugs.

Have you ever wondered what the seagulls eat?

They open their mouths and run and catch all the bugs.

I wonder how many little bugs make a seagull feel full?

It was fun to watch them.

Its hard to believe this used to be all water.

I found a map that shows where all the bird watching places are.

When fall and spring come I will have to check them out.

The heat and bugs keep me from exploring as much in the summer.

Do you see our shadows?

I love my little day hike book.

Some one wanted to go with us.

This is the Memorial park, it is near

the City Creek Canyon trail.

It was very pretty. 

I'm not sure why people leave pennies. 

It did look interesting though.

There were lots of good views of the state capital.

It was a nice easy hike.

Here is the City creek.  Well that's what

I am assuming it is called.

My favorite snack while hiking.

Look at what someone made.  A stone foot print.

It's pretty cool looking.

We liked the meditation building.

too bad you couldn't go inside.

A reflection of the state capital in the window.

Hope you enjoyed these photos of our

dates together.

Have a wonderful week.

G.G.