Hello 2016

Holy cow! This week was the fastest week ever. 

Welcome 2016 :). Lets get back to normal around here. 

Landon: 

Finished his last two interviews this week!!!! Yay!!! He went to 15 interviews, plus two that didn't require him to be there, plus two he cancelled. We were both so excited and relieved when he walked in the house after his last one. Excited he's done, relieved he's safe. Landon's on Radiology right now. He has two tests this month, but the rotation itself is pretty chill. Lots of half days. He's been reading lots of books and listening to everything BYU. The next four months are going to be awesome! 

Becca:  

I spent the week working on the blog layout, reading, and twiddling my thumbs some times for Landon to be done. My dear friend Amanda and I went to lunch and it was so fun to have some girl time!! 

Every year I only pick one New Years resolution to work on:

2009: Go on a Mission-->that didn't happen :)

2010: Learn to cook 

2011: Find joy in the journey 

2012: Exercise Daily 

2013: Serve one person each day 

2014: Clean as I go while cooking 

2015: Become less wasteful 

2016: Early to bed, early rise (10:00pm-6am) 

Let's review 2015s goal. 

I think I did so many good things here, but honestly, I could have done WAY better. I give myself a C+. 

Things I did do: 

I went through my house and got rid of things we don't use (44+ bags worth.) Normally I would have just thrown all those bags away, but I gave most of it to friends or family. One of Landon's mission suit cases is currently in another mission with another missionary. I love that. 

I learned how to grocery shop from the amazing ami(who also taught me so many other things this week).This has helped me not waste as much food. And not spend as much money. Which I love. 

We have never really used many paper products, but I've continued to use less and less in all aspects of my life. Period, (wink wink). 

BUT, I didn't even touch recycling. And thats my biggest problem. So I don't feel as good about this year as I have in the past. I'll keep working on it. 

2016s goal: 

Is to be in bed by 10 and awake by 6. It's been hard to change what my body is use too. And I haven't done it every day. But I'm so excited about this goal and think it could change so much of my life:). It's all about the process. I don't expect to be perfect at it in the beginning but my hope is each year I master something new. I've done really well up until last years goal. 

Jax: 

Is obsessed with start wars and sings Darth Vader's song all day long every day. He loves to carry Ty everywhere. He loves his marbleous. 

Ty: 

Is crawling fully. He has had a hard week because he's been a little sick. But I started giving him three naps again and that worked wonders. He slept from six to six the other night. Yay! He's also eating like crazy. This morning he had an entire banana, one strawberry, 6 blueberries, three ham cubes, one scramble egg, half of a muffin. And none of it fell in the floor. How is he so small? 

Landon and I were able to go on a fun date on Friday and we were able to have delicious cafe rio with the Naylors and Daetwylers on Saturday. 

Landon almost didn't go to his last interview in Galveston Texas. We are confident Landon is going to match and Galveston didn't seem like it would compete with our top three or four. Logically both of us wanted to just cancel it. Not spend the money or time. And we almost did. But neither of us felt good about not going. It's not that we wanted to, just the idea of cancelling felt so wrong. I was particularly annoyed with that. But I kept saying, "we both feel like he needs to go." So alas, Landon went. And he LOVED it. And we love the idea of it now. Who knows where it will end up on our rank list(well actually we kind of know :)!) but I just know that the feeling we were having was from the Lord. And if anything else, this experience was a reminder to me that Heavenly Father is so very aware of our current situation. He is guiding us and if we do all we can he will lead us to the place we are suppose to be. I'm more confident in that than ever and I'm excited to see where he will lead us to next!! 

 Happy New Years!!!

Our 2015 in Review

2015 was so fabulous for us. Here is our year in review:

January 2015:

We spent January with family in AZ and UT. We were still very much undecided about Landon's future. MD or MD/MBA? January was essential and a pivotal time in Landon's Career. It was also the month little Hallie was born. The Woolf family would be incomplete without her.

February 2015:

Landon headed back to a busy Internal Medicine month and Jax officially started Sunbeams 

March 2015

I read The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up and it changed my life. Jaxson rearranged his room for his little brother to come. And it snowed a lot.

April 2015:

Landon spent the month in Muncie and we spent as much time as we possibly could with some of our besties before they moved. It was so hard to see them go and Jax and I both still miss them, but they changed our life and we are better for knowing them

May 2015:

We welcomed our perfect Tyler Logan to the world and we haven't been the same since. 

June:

We blessed Ty and were blessed by all the family that flew out to meet him and be there. That same weekend we celebrated Johnny and his family finishing residency. 

July 2015

Landon officially decided to become an Anesthesiologist, yay! And we flew to Arizona to welcome Logan home from his mission. 

August 2015:

Nate, Sarah, Hailey and Hazel came to visit us! The Indianapolis temple was dedicated and Landon flew out to Utah to help his lil bro get situated at BYU 

September:

The Edwards boys went to the Nebraska game. We had the Edwards family reunion and we applied to Residency. Important month, but Landon said this picture was the only and obvious choice:

October 2015:

Landon started interviews. We won a pretty big scholarship with an essay we wrote. Jax turned 4! 

November 2015:

Landon and I ran in a half marathon. We threw a thanksgiving play date for all our friends out here who have helped us during our Medical School training.

December 2015:

We accompanied Landon to Utah for another interview. He finished 15 interviews by the end of the month and only has two more. We had Christmas at home with our family of four! 

We had a wonderful year and we are so blessed to have amazing family and friends. We feel immense gratitude for the knowledge that our Heavnely Parents love of us, they are watching over us and they have given us everything. We also know that our Savior lives and He has made it possible for all of us to return to our heavenly home, together, forever. 

Thank you 2015! You were so so SOOOO good to us. 

Next week I'll talk about 2016 and our New Years resolutions. But until then, we had a fun week as a family before Landon starts his last semester of medical school and his last stretch of interviews. 

Learning about the Sabbath Day