Not Me! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.
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Jason and I did NOT have a junk food free-for-all last week in an attempt to get all the junk food out of the house! We are NOT starting a diet/exercise plan today with the hopes of getting in better shape and losing some weight! I did NOT get on the scale this morning to record my start weight with the plan to lose a TON few pounds before my 30th birthday in June!

There is NOT still a {HUGE} bag of M&M's in the cabinet that is seriously going to test my will power for the next few weeks! I am NOT considering calculating how many Weight Watcher points are in a handful of M&M's just in case my will power loses!

I am NOT just a little excited that Christmas break is over and we are getting back into a normal schedule today. I did NOT enjoy sleeping late and being lazy for the last two weeks....but I also did NOT miss my normal routine:) I am NOT hoping that getting up early gets easier as the week goes by!

Playing With Fire(works)!

We had a blast celebrating the New Year!

Jason built a bonfire.

The boys did fireworks {mostly sparklers}.

We had a yummy junk food dinner of Pizza Rolls, homemade potato skins, and green beans:)

Then we made and ate M&M cookies for dessert!

*************************** Henry finally realized that fireworks {especially sparklers} can be fun instead of scary!
Grant wouldn't be still long enough for me to get a good shot!
Eli wanted to join in on the fun too!
{We were safe while we were playing with fire(works)...Jason is holding Eli, and his hand is right below Eli's...I just cropped it out of the picture.}

A New Me...

Do you ever wish that you were someone different?

Do you ever find yourself daydreaming about:

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a different life

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with a different body

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in a different place

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with different friends

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I don't do it very often, but sometimes I find myself wishing that my life was somehow different. Not that I'm unhappy with how my life is now....but sometimes it just seems like different would be good! And maybe it's not really that I want all those things to be different....maybe it's that I want them to be better.

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a better life

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with a better body

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in a better place

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with better friends
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I don't really make New Year's Resolutions {other than to lose weight...which has been on my list for as long as I can remember}, but I think this year I am going to strive to be BETTER!

I want to be better at everything I do!

Not better than any other person...just better than the person that I am right now!
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To live my life better

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To get in better shape {& lose weight}

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To make my surroundings better

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And simply to be a better wife, mother, sister, daughter, and friend.

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I think in the end if I make all those things BETTER, I really will be DIFFERENT. Still me, just a different, better me!

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I hope you all have a great New Year's Eve!
See you in 2010!