I love our family's blog books. I love capturing the moments and freezing them in time so we can look back and relive those fun memories over and over and over. I've also started tracking in my planner books I've read, trips we've taken, large projects we've accomplished so I wanted to record that here and be able to look back on it later:
Books I read in 2023:
(I joined a book club this year and read a lot of books that I wouldn't normally pick up. I really enjoyed the challenge and reading some different things. Definitely didn't love all of them and I've decided that I don't NEED to finish a book just because I start it, so a few books in the list will say *did not finish, and I also starred books that I especially loved. Also, the last two years I've discovered audiobooks which allows me to read so many more books than I would be able to if I could only read the hardcopy)
Grandma Gatewood's Walk
Miraculous Abundance *did not finish
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
Screwtape Letters*
American Sherlock*
Man's Search for Meaning
The Gift
Salt to the Sea
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
AP World History: Modern
All the Light We Cannot See*
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Kindred
The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team
The Social Graces
Stranger in a Lifeboat
Daisy Jones and the Six
The Life and Adventures of James Gammill
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Google's 3 Months to No. 1
The Happiness Advantage* (again)
Thursday's Murder Club
Cilka's Journey
The Midnight Library*
The Christmas Guest
Before Happiness*
Assistant to the Villain*
The Happiness Project
Also-it's not a book, but I listen to the Follow Him podcast each week which is two hours talking about the weekly lesson in Come Follow Me.
Family Adventures and Travels in 2023:
(we had planned that this would be a year of no trips since we were starting up our Restoration 1 franchise. I still wanted to track our adventures. When you are tracking, you realize that we had a TON of travels in just one year, especially a year of NO TRAVELS.
Shayne's Colorado Snowboarding trip with Jim
Sibling California trip for Jonna
Kid's Last Hurrah California Trip
Jonna and Shayne to Nashville
Jonna and Shayne to Dallas Texas for training
Jonna and Olivia in Utah and coming home
Shayne, Quinten & Collin to Disneyland for choir
Shayne work trip to Miami
Izzy California and Disneyland Choir Trip
Quinten YM trip to Utah
Izzy California YW trip
Izzy and Quinten FSY
Shayne and Jonna Flagstaff weekend
Shayne, Olivia, Izzy, Quinten & Collin Comicon and San Diego Trip
Shayne and Olivia to Utah Trip
Shayne, Quinten & Collin Carlsbad Beach Camping
Olivia home for Thanksgiving
Olivia home for Christmas
Large Projects Accomplished:
(it doesn't seem like very many projects were accomplished this year, but the ones that were, were HUGE for our family and took a lot to accomplish)
Bought a van for Restoration 1
Opened a Restoration 1 franchise
Olivia bought her first car
Izzy started West-Mec
Olivia started Nursing Program
Expanded our apiary to 4 beehives
Harvested honey and sold it
Youth temple trips-17 this year and went to 9 different temples
Quinten's Braces
Family History:
This is something I've really worked hard on the past few years and this year was no different. I am loving learning about my ancestors, and adding to our family's information on Family Search. This year I read a book about one of my ancestors James Gammill, and made 320 contributions in Family Search which includes creating records for 94 relatives/ancestors. Our family has tried to take many of our ancestors through the temple now that temples are fully open again and in the past two years (just through my account-there are more in everyone else's account but we use my account the most to get temple ordinance cards) we've completed 140 ordinances for our ancestors. I've started working on personal histories and helped both my parents (and Shayne's parents a little) get many of their stories and experiences down. I've also worked with my dad's siblings to get their personal histories down and am working on compiling all those into a small book with pictures and stories from their lives. I've been working on keeping a journal and I've now hit 2.5 years in my daily journal (just short and sweet each day of what happened) and I love looking back on all we've done over the last 2+ years with our family. Record keeping is amazing.
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