Wow, a year and a half. That is how long it has been since my last blog to this site, and while a year and a half doesn't seem like a lot, I can assure you that a lot has been done in that time.
Over the past year and a half, my daughter has accomplished two championships with her T-ball team, participated in more 3 dance recitals, and has moved from second to third grade. Brayden is growing like a weed, and is getting ready to enter his second year of the Children's Day Out program at our church and he is excited about getting to go back. Ronda and I have continued to grow, and have been able to spend more time together as I have changed careers.
The biggest thing that this has allowed us to do is grow our faith, and bond as a family through use of our devotions. We started by selecting a dinner time devotional and that has helped us talk more openly about God, and what he means to us as a family.
Now, we see where the next year and a half takes us.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Friday, January 8, 2010
The Future
As I was reminded by my wife that I haven't submitted a blog to my site in forever, I noticed the past posts that I had on here including those regarding my new year's resolutions for 2009. I must say that as we have moved on to 2010, I failed miserably. There were a couple of key things that I put in my 2009 resolutions which included:
1. More dedication and attention to my family
2. Attention to personal health
3. Semi-annual vacations
4. Personal Savings
5. Completion of construction projects.
I have failed to spend more time with my family, in fact there was a lot of times that I was away working multiple jobs, so I am going to continue working on the family dedication which was wonderful tonight as we turned off the lights, the tv, the computers, and ate by candles and played for hours with just toys and each other. Tonight was a great night to be with family as we look outside at the white of the previous nights snow.
2. I think that I spent much of my time overlooking my health in an attempt to learn more about others health and how to fix it. I am going to work on my weight and health on a regular basis, but do it in a manner that will not overtake my life or discourage me so that I stay on track.
3. Had a great vacation with our family this year as we were able to get away from everything including the United States. Didn't make it on a second vacation, but working on it. And this goes with number 4 as well. Going to work on being debt free as quick as possible. My wonderful wife, my only current subscriber to this blog, bought me a wonderful series of text from Dave Ramsey to work on eliminating our debt to be able to do more of the stuff that we want to do. I'm in. Gotta work through the budgeting and start saving the money.
5. Got some projects done, damaged others and committed to some more. We are going to make it though.
2010 is going to be a good year at the Blevins home. Hope it will be good with you as well.
1. More dedication and attention to my family
2. Attention to personal health
3. Semi-annual vacations
4. Personal Savings
5. Completion of construction projects.
I have failed to spend more time with my family, in fact there was a lot of times that I was away working multiple jobs, so I am going to continue working on the family dedication which was wonderful tonight as we turned off the lights, the tv, the computers, and ate by candles and played for hours with just toys and each other. Tonight was a great night to be with family as we look outside at the white of the previous nights snow.
2. I think that I spent much of my time overlooking my health in an attempt to learn more about others health and how to fix it. I am going to work on my weight and health on a regular basis, but do it in a manner that will not overtake my life or discourage me so that I stay on track.
3. Had a great vacation with our family this year as we were able to get away from everything including the United States. Didn't make it on a second vacation, but working on it. And this goes with number 4 as well. Going to work on being debt free as quick as possible. My wonderful wife, my only current subscriber to this blog, bought me a wonderful series of text from Dave Ramsey to work on eliminating our debt to be able to do more of the stuff that we want to do. I'm in. Gotta work through the budgeting and start saving the money.
5. Got some projects done, damaged others and committed to some more. We are going to make it though.
2010 is going to be a good year at the Blevins home. Hope it will be good with you as well.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
As we continue...
Okay, if you are looking for something to do as a family I must suggest what Ronda, Alyssa, Brayden and I did last night. Since we have spent so much time with the medical conditions that plague Brayden, Ronda and I decided that following Brayden's doctors appointment we would take Alyssa up to Ober Gatlinburg so that she could go "snowtubing" and to actually play in snow that has accumulated. Although Brayden is too little (must be over 3 years old) and Ronda sat inside with him, I believe that we had a good family experience. Due to the weather conditions, we were unable to make it up the mountain with our vehicle and it probably a good idea that we didn't. With the continued snow during or time on the mountain the road up and down almost became inpassable.
On our way back we stopped at Red Lobster to get a little seafood for supper. Of course Alyssa enjoyed the freshest Macaroni and Chesse while Ronda and I took part in a couple different dishes of Shrimp.
This took us to the end of our day as it was almost 1030 last night when we got home. The family was able to take a long rest and didn't completely wake up until about 11 today. This impart to the "Snow Day" offered to students by the administration of Jefferson County Schools.
As I mentioned in my first post, one of my most important resolutions is the health and sanity of my family. One of my goals to ensure the happiness of my family is to strive to accomplish lots more fun stuff than we have done in the past. I believe we succeeded with this one.
Just remember always look for extra fun in the sun...
On our way back we stopped at Red Lobster to get a little seafood for supper. Of course Alyssa enjoyed the freshest Macaroni and Chesse while Ronda and I took part in a couple different dishes of Shrimp.
This took us to the end of our day as it was almost 1030 last night when we got home. The family was able to take a long rest and didn't completely wake up until about 11 today. This impart to the "Snow Day" offered to students by the administration of Jefferson County Schools.
As I mentioned in my first post, one of my most important resolutions is the health and sanity of my family. One of my goals to ensure the happiness of my family is to strive to accomplish lots more fun stuff than we have done in the past. I believe we succeeded with this one.
Just remember always look for extra fun in the sun...
Thursday, January 1, 2009
New Year's Resolution
Well now that it is officially 2009 I believe that I must put together my list of resolutions that I will attempt to complete. As we all know, the ability to resolve a list of New Year's resolutions is extremely difficult. In addition to having my internal list, the list I create for the bettering of myself of the next 365 days, I will also publish this list to each of you. By doing this, I believe I will be more apt to "stick" to the list and hopefully become a better person.
1) More dedication and attention to my family.
- This will include not only my wife, daughter, and son, but my family, my wife's family, and
friends that I would consider family.
2) An attention to personal health. Some people like to say they would like to lose weight, or "get healthier" I would like to take attention to overall personal health which would include losing weight and becoming more physically fit, but also looking at ways increasing my life expectancy.
3) Semi-Annual Vacations - I would like to take this year to begin annual vacations which would include a minimum of one summer vacation and one fall/winter vacation. I have fallen prey to work overload and I believe that by implementing this resolution I will be able to grow personally, as a family, and as an employee.
4) Personal Savings - I would like to take this year to become more financially independent. This would include the reduction of outgoing funds to those considered "bills" from working with utility companies to reduce use of resources to paying off as many of our recurring expenses as possible.
5) Completion of construction projects at the house - There are several things that are still incomplete from our remodeling at the house. I would like to complete all projects to begin others. We would like to extend our back deck the full-length of the house and put a set of french doors out of the dining room area. Also would like to enclose the carport into a garage.
(Those that would like to help...)
I believe that as you would notice, this is a very lofty set of goals that I would like to attain. The goal though is not ones that I must strive to attain, they are goals I will attain...
1) More dedication and attention to my family.
- This will include not only my wife, daughter, and son, but my family, my wife's family, and
friends that I would consider family.
2) An attention to personal health. Some people like to say they would like to lose weight, or "get healthier" I would like to take attention to overall personal health which would include losing weight and becoming more physically fit, but also looking at ways increasing my life expectancy.
3) Semi-Annual Vacations - I would like to take this year to begin annual vacations which would include a minimum of one summer vacation and one fall/winter vacation. I have fallen prey to work overload and I believe that by implementing this resolution I will be able to grow personally, as a family, and as an employee.
4) Personal Savings - I would like to take this year to become more financially independent. This would include the reduction of outgoing funds to those considered "bills" from working with utility companies to reduce use of resources to paying off as many of our recurring expenses as possible.
5) Completion of construction projects at the house - There are several things that are still incomplete from our remodeling at the house. I would like to complete all projects to begin others. We would like to extend our back deck the full-length of the house and put a set of french doors out of the dining room area. Also would like to enclose the carport into a garage.
(Those that would like to help...)
I believe that as you would notice, this is a very lofty set of goals that I would like to attain. The goal though is not ones that I must strive to attain, they are goals I will attain...
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