Friday's 5 - my first of 2014!

I love this link-up because it gives me a chance to a) make a list, which I love to do and b) share random things that might not fill out a whole blog post but are still interesting and worth sharing!

If you want to read other's posts, you can check out the link-up with Darci, April, Natasha and Christina. I always find some interesting new blogs to follow and I love reading other blogger's 5 things!!

This week, I wanted to share some interesting links that I came across in the past couple of weeks.

ONE

I came across this health manifesto from Greatist.com on Amber's blog last week and I think it is a cool thing to print off and remind yourself about where you're going this year!


TWO

Over the holidays, I did some yoga videos and Molly "did yoga" with me (AKA she jumped around and pulled the mat out from under me even though she had her own mat! ;) haha). I came across a toddler yoga video HERE that I'm going to try with her sometime!

THREE

I enjoyed THIS set of tips for being healthier this year. Quite a few good tips. Thanks, Buzzfeed. :)

FOUR

Helene over at Helene in Between polled her readers about the best blogger of 2013 HERE and I found a few new blogs to check out from the comments section! The winners were announced on her blog on Wednesday...you can see the winners HERE.

FIVE

This is a cool approach to New Year's resolutions that you can fill out, print off and glance at throughout the year.

via LaurenConrad.com

What are your 5 for this Friday??

14 Things I'm looking forward to in 2014.

Happy new year!!!!

I do have parts of a Christmas recap typed up, but I have been wanting to post this forever as a start to the new year. 14 is my favourite number (I'm so creative - I was born on Aug. 14), so I am pretty excited about the year 2014 which is likely the only 14 year I will see in this lifetime! That being said, there are a lot of things that I'm really looking forward to in this upcoming year.

1) Giving birth to our second child/not being pregnant anymore (this one is a given)
2) The Veronica Mars movie (can't wait, but Brian won't come and see it with me...any takers?)
3) Divergent: the movie (I can probably talk Brian into seeing this one with me because he likes The Hunger Games)
4) Being off work with 2 children for a year (will be nice in some ways and likely overwhelming at first)
5) Watching the hubby turn 30 (he is freaking out about it but I think it will be fun)
6) Celebrating my sister's graduation from med school and her husband from law school (and hopefully watching them move to NS!)
7) Seeing my parents and brother in the summer (overjoyed!)
8) Having a raspberry beer (mmmmmmm)
9) Working on my blog (including a blog design and some weekly posts)
10) Participating in a book club: either Bonnie's or Laura's or both!
11) Running a 10K in the fall (this is a goal!) and losing the baby weight.
12) Enrolling Molly in soccer in the summer (Can't wait to watch her play)
13) Reconnecting with friends and family who have or will be moving closer to us
14) Molly's first concert, thanks to Nanny and Papa (a Christmas gift) - Raffi!!

And a bonus one...I am going to be keeping a VERY brief 5 year journal. I saw a book for it at Chapters before Christmas but I will be following the prompts from this site. It is only a sentence or two a day, but you can compare over the 5 years and I think it will be really interesting to see my responses over the next 5 years of changes!!!

Hope 2014 brings joy to everyone!