Happy New Year!

I hope this year has started off well for all of you. Usually I have been in the practice of not making New Year resolutions but this year I found myself making them. Guess I miss making goals for myself assessments at work, (this should get a laugh from all of my old ADC cronies. Goals were the worst part of the review process.). Anyway, I thought I might share a few with all of you:

1. Update blog at least twice a month. More if time permits. Sorry, I know there are many of you that would like me to do it more often but I just don't always have the schedule.

2. Spend more time with our Godson Collin, oh yeah, and his parents. :-) My goal, to get together at least once a month. I have neglected to post a picture of our handsome Godson, who takes after his mom of course. Note Dougie, I am not posting your favorite picture from Christmas since he was not wearing a Vikings jersey. This is a Bronco free zone!

3. Make a meal plan every week. I am horrible about thinking ahead to dinner. There are many nights Darin comes home and we end up eating frozen meals or ordering in because I have forgotten yet again to pull something out or I had no idea what to do for dinner. Plus, since Darin is the cook I feel a little silly making the decision of what he's going to fix for us. So this way it will be a group decision.

4. Organize all of our digital pictures. You might think this is a silly one since you know how I like to TAKE pictures. The problem is I download them but don't organize them right away. So I am working on pictures right now from 2005! Now you also know why I didn't send to many pictures of Zack out prior to this blog.

5. Print pictures for Zack's baby book. See #4, makes it hard to print what you don't know you have. :-(

6. Figure out how to use Flicker. This is a web page my cousin uses to show us his pictures. He can link it to his blog so that the blog isn't so crowded with snapshots like I just did for Christmas. First got to get the pics. organized. Then I'll figure this one out.

7. Download our videos from the 8 tapes we have and then post some to the blog. This one is Darin's resolution, at least the down loading part is. But I thought I'd include it so you know what to look forward to in the future of the Bartsch Beat.

8. Time for a little fun. Date night at least once a month. We talk about it all the time but don't follow through. Hopefully writing it down will mean it will happen.

So these are just a few of the things that are going to be keeping me busy this year.

Hope you are enjoying this blog we have begun.