Bliggity Blog Birthday

Today is this blogs 1st Birthday.

A year ago today I sat in the massive hallway in the LA building @ UVU and posted my very first blog entry. After a month or so of toying with the idea of starting my blog, I got over my insecurities and questions of "What would I write?" and "Who would want to read my silly thoughts?" and decided to just go for it.

I am so very glad that I did.

Recently, I went back through all my posts and relived each of the moments that I wrote about. I love that each one has a meaning to it and nothing was posted out of obligation for having a blog. The small and silly moments that would probably be long forgotten by now are safe and secure in my little blog world where I can easily return to them when a smile is needed.

As for my original goal when I started this thing: to get healthy physically and feel more confident about myself, can definitely be checked off as a success.

In 2010 I went from the worst to the best physical state in my life. As I worked at being happier and healthier (loosing 25 pounds along the way) I found a new love for who I am and who I am working on becoming.

Having a place to but each milestone along the way was reason enough for having this blog. 

And now on to 2011...

I originally thought of having my word for the year to be ENDURE.

As I thought about more, I liked it less. 

I want to do so much more than endure through this next chapter in my life.

I want to love every moment and be excited for what comes next. 

Enduring through school, work and life in general sounds, to me, like I would just be merely scrapping by until it was all over. I don't like the sounds of that.

So as much as I wish I did, I guess I don't really have one word to focus on this year. 

Not yet. 

I will still work on it though.

For now I will just be loving each day, 

treasuring each letter from a certain missionary in Tucson, 

adoring each second with beautiful nieces,

absorbing as much knowledge as possible,

and being grateful for the amazing life I get to live.

So my trial run of having a blog has proved a success.

On to round 2!