Happy New year.  Do you make new year goals? 

I have made a few new goals, and I'm trying to continue

working on goals from last year. 

This magazine is the focus of my year.

This year I want to let things go.

I want to de-clutter my house.

I want to keep on my path of living a stress free life.

I have so far de-cluttered two rooms in my house.

I have deleted and filed all my emails for my home email.

I am slowly deleting photos from my phone, and creating photo books

of my favorite photos.

My husband and I have started doing our weekly dates again.

We have had lots of snow and rain, so that has made going out

a little hard.  This past week we went to one of our favorite places to walk.

We saw 7 great blue herons, and some golden eye ducks.

I hope the weather is a little nicer on Monday so we can have a nice outdoor

adventure.

I want to continue to enjoy each day, and each week, 

not wait for some big special event.

I also am trying to get back to doing family history research weekly.

My silly goal is to color this whole coloring book.

This is because I buy these books and color just a little bit and then stop.

I have an Instagram account and I tumbler account where I will share 

photos and updates of my goals this year.

I do hope to blog more too. 

Happy New Year 2023.

G.G.

 

 Our Bowlby Family Christmas Letter. December 25th 2022.

Here is our Christmas card for this year.  I feel very blessed today.

It's Christmas day and my family had a very nice Christmas.

We had a really good year. Last year around Christmas I said "We are going to blink

and it will be Christmas 2022.  I feel today like I blinked and a whole year flew by.

We spent last year having weekly dates.  Where we 

went bird watching, Flower garden walking,

and exploring Utah.

Here we are counting down to Christmas.

I started to organize some of my photos into books.

I Worked on a Halloween project for a whole year.

I actually won a prize for it too.

We got to go on two vacations this year to visit family.

Both our children are doing well in college.

Our daughter will graduate this spring. 

She hopes to go to Japan after graduating.

Our son will graduate possibly next fall.  

I didn't really write a Christmas letter this year with my 

cards.  But I do feel extremely blessed. 

I love my job, I love my family, I love my very simple life.

I look forward to the new year. 

If life is a journey, this past year I have been  resting.

I stopped along the path and stood still.   It was good for me.

I focused on myself and my health this past year.

I have now been making some new year goals, which I will share later.

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. 

I hope you have a wonderful new year. 

From,

Kimberly

Day date photos March and April 2022

 

The past couple of months we have had some fun adventures.

I am having a "little year" of bird watching.   I am enjoying seeing all 

the birds as we go out on our dates.  Above is a Tundra Swan.

This is a Sand Hill Crane. 

An American Kestrel.

This could be a Prairie Falcon.

I so enjoy finding new places to explore. 

There is always something new to see and learn.

This is a park on the Great Salt Lake. 

You have to use binoculars to see the Bald Eagles out

on the Great Salt Lake near Antelope Island.  

I was so glad to see them again this year.

We have had fun driving around Antelope Island

and seeing the Bison.

I wonder if the ones that are by themselves

and not with a herd are young male bison.

Sometimes they stand right in the middle of the road.

They are pretty cool to see.

Do you know the difference between a Raven and a Crow?

Ravens have a hooked beak, and glide about. 

This is a Raven.

We Spent a day at the Hogle Zoo.  

I had thought we were going to have a nice warm day,

but spring has been pretty cold.

I love the stripes on the Zebra.

The Lions were very nice to pose in such a regal manner.

I think this Orangutan was feeling a little cold. 

I wonder if the Apes stand and people watch. 

Rhino's seem like such a prehistoric animal.

 

This wild cat looked so cute, you would

think you could take it home. 

Despite the cold I got to test my photography skills out

on all the Zoo animals.  It was fun.  Perhaps we will go back when it

is a little warmer.

We had an ice store a few weeks ago and

I got some nice photos of my back yard bird.

I believe it is a Lesser Goldfinch.  

On another day off we went for a walk along the 

Provo River.  This is an American Dipper. 

Here is a pair of Golden Eye Ducks. 

This week we went back to Antelope Island.

I wanted to see if there would be any baby bison.

I think the lone male bison decided to have a day

at the beach.  Which meant we could not

go on the beach.

Another new bird for my birding of the year.

A Meadow Lark.  I might start listening 

to bird calls.  This one sounds so beautiful.

Here is a herd of Bison.  I can see some babies.

If you go take binoculars as the herds are usually really

far away from the road. 

We probably won't go back again until fall. It was pretty buggy out.

We did have a lot of fun adventures out here this winter and spring.

This might be an American Pipit. 

Do you like bird watching?

Have you watched the movie 

"The Big Year."

It was a fun movie.  

Well hope you enjoyed my photos. 

G.G.