Well hello there blog buds!
What a week! Cory and I often try to take this week off between Christmas and the New Year because it’s always a nice way to feel festive, wind down the year and also do a little celebrating of our anniversary which is January 1. The weather in Colorado has been beautiful – we had a white Christmas thanks to the 10″ of snow that fell a few days prior and now this week has been in the high 40s and even some mid-to-upper 50s. So back when we first started planning this little ‘stay-cation’ we had high hopes for getting out and doing some hiking, maybe some jogging, snowshoeing, dogwalking, etc.
Alas, the curse of the best laid plans and all that jazz…
The long and the short of it is: Cory and I both ended up with a repeat of that same nasty cold we had over Thanksgiving (OK, body – get it out of your system now because I’m not letting you get sick in 2012!), our old Weim Riley is laid up with some issues surrounding her back legs (hip/spine) so we’ve had two vet appointments this week trying to determine what’s wrong, including X-rays which revealed some not-so-good news and since we can’t leave her alone now for more than a couple hours at a time, we’ve had a bit of a kink in our plans.
We did however stick to our usual Christmas Day routine.
A decadent breakfast treat:



For Christmas dinner, our tradition is normally to out to a Chinese buffet, but this year we opted for takeout from John Holly’s Asian Bistro instead.


Mmm seaweed salad, lobster roll and California rolls!
We also always go see a movie and this year we changed it up from the usual dramatic family film and chose something chock full of action with Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. We loved it! A really high energy film and it made me want to go home and do a bunch of pushups or something! Tom Cruise is one fit dude!
In spite of the cold dragging down my head, I have still done a couple of pretty solid workouts during the week, but kept them indoors. I’m refusing to let it get in the way of my exercise this time around! I’ve been relying on Cathe Friedrich to train me via her DVDs – sometimes the trainer still needs a trainer! I also attended a class at OrangeTheory Fitness, but I’ll be posting more on that in its own post in the near future.
While I’ve had this downtime I’ve used it to get started on a Create 2012 Collage (aka vision board, inspiration board). I haven’t made one in years and since I’m setting intentions instead of specific resolutions for the New Year, I thought I’d get one started. I have a lot of work to do on it yet, but here are some of the beginning stages of clippings I’ve started pulling together.



Do you ever make ‘vision boards’? Do you have some specific traditions (or “non-traditions”!) regarding the New Year or Christmas?
Hope you are having a FABULOUS day! If I don’t get back out here before tomorrow night, have a HAPPY and SAFE New Year’s Eve friends! Happy 2012!
– Shari B. =)



























































