New Year...already?

I suppose it's time to start making my list of all of the great things I want to do for myself in the coming year. To be truthful, I don't think I've ever made a list. I've thought about things that I'd like to do and I've agreed with others as they expressed their new year desires but, I have never decided to myself that "Yes, Misha, this year you're going to change....blah". I've heard it's good to write things down...So, I'll try it...for the first time.
Recently, I mentioned to David that as a young girl I had a motto it was this: "Always make an impression wherever you go." And I've tried to keep to this for the eleven some odd years since I made it. Well folks, I'm going to renew my promise to myself this coming year in '08. I want that my character would be something to be remembered and that it would impact people in a positive way. This is a part of myself that I've always worked on but, I'm going to work on it even more. Another New Year promise of mine is to made a conserted effort to invite people over and be a good hostess. It's so easy to let your life control you instead of you controlling your life.
I'm getting nervous now because I'm sure I could sit here and write down a whole host of different areas in my life that I would like to improve but, I won't. I'll just stick to a few and when those are done I'll work on the rest. So, for my last New Year promise I would like to make our house into a Godly home...
The list of my short comings could fill a small book but, these are my priorities for now.

The longest Vacation EVER!

Ok, I'm in Pennsylvania now. Wheeeeew, have you ever been ready to come home from vacation? I am. We spent a week on the sandy beaches of the Bahamas, St. Thomas and San Marteen. What a wonderful time we had floating across the ocean on a massive boat being served incredible amounts of wonderful food and having our bedrooms cleaned for us twice a day. Each day started with a groan of exhaustion and a quick shower to wake us up. We spent hours on the beach playing in the sand. Cylas had his first naked beach debut. It was soooo cute. I have lots of video and great pictures to share.
I'll patch them all together and send a link so you all can enjoy a piece of my wonderful memories. The first day we got ourselves into the room and used to the rocking. I was little sea sick and didn't want to get out of bed. But, eventually I did and wasn't sick at all the rest of the time. The second night was a formal night and we got all dolled up to go eat...hah. The rest of the week was a blur and I just remember getting toasty on the beach and eating copious amounts of food. I don't know if I gained but a half pound because I made sure to play volleyball(on the boat) and walk a lot. While we were there David won a 90 min full body massage(lucky duck!) and while he was getting worked over I sat in the sauna for an hour...there were a couple of ladies in there relaxing and doing deep breathing. One lady relaxed so much she let a huge gas! Ooohhh lord...need a say more? I got out and took a shower(gag)

Quick Trip

Well, I had a sort of mini vacation over the weekend. It was really nice. My sister and I went to see a Christmas Spectacular and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. I have a photo here to show you all. There was a lot that went on over the weekend that I wish I had the liberty to talk about but, I can't. So, I suppose I'll just share with you all the happy stuff! Be looking for another update because, this Friday starts our family trip to the Bahamas. I'll be making a video with tonz of photos and narraration.
Enjoy!