Goals

To me goals are a very important part of our life.  I personally don't think we would get anywhere if we didn't make goals.  Growing up, my mom did her best at helping us to understand that it's important to set goals.  More importantly she taught me how important it was to find a guy who was/is goal oriented.  I am so grateful for her instilling that in me because I know the importance and I married a man who also sets goals.

While in a rut after high school my sister encouraged me to set short term and long term goals.  I made a bunch of goals.  Some of which I have accomplished.  Others that haven't been completed.  Now as the years have gone on I've decided that some of my goals need to be changed.  Also what I love about being married is that Chase's goals are now my goals as well.  I want to do everything I can to help him accomplish them.  So I have listed off some of our goals.  These goals are going to help shape our lives, and bring us much happiness.

Our biggest goal is College for Chase.  I am so happy to say that in April Chase will be graduating.  What an accomplishment to be able to say that he has his degree and is an Engineer.  Now with Graduation brings on new goals, like finding a career job.  He is currently searching and applying so hopefully we'll end up with one soon.  He has a goal on what he wants to do with his career so were trying to be a little bit picky with the job hunt.  I'm sure it will all pay off in the end. :)

One of my goals is to run a marathon.  I've already ran three half marathons and was training for my 4th so I figured I could step it up and do a full.  I signed up to run the Utah Valley Marathon on June 8th, however an injury has set me back.  I was unable to run the half marathon and I don't think I'll be running this marathon anymore which saddens me because I was excited to run it.  The good thing about goals though is that if you need to revise them you can.  So it looks like I need to decide on a different marathon to run.

One of Chase's goals is to restore his 67 911 Porsche.  This is going to take him a few years to complete but will be well worth the hard work in the end.  He has made it a goal to do most, if not all of the work himself rather than sending it off to someone to have them re-build and restore it for him.  This will be really fun for him since he loves cars and he will come away with a lot of new skills.  I'm excited to see the excitement in his eyes when the project is all done.

It should look something like this when its done

Another one of our goals is to travel.  We have a few places that we would love to go visit and I'm sure more will be added to our list as time goes on :)  For now though we really want to go back to Germany, so Chase can show me the beautiful place he lived in for 2 years.  We have some friends where the husband also served his mission in Germany but up North, so we've discussed having all 4 of us go over so that we can see all of Germany.  One day this will happen.  When?  We don't know yet.  We need to set that in our goal so we can actually work towards it rather than just dreaming about it.  The other place we really want to visit is Ireland.  This has been my dream/goal for a very long time and it has turned into Chase's as well.  So we will one day be visiting Ireland as well.  Don't worry there are a lot of places that we need to see in the states as well.  Along with traveling to visit family :)

I'm so excited for all of our goals and trust me there are more and will always be more to come.  The one thing we are lacking in right now is actually writing them down so that we can look at them and plan for them.  I like to think of them as only dreams if we don't make it a goal and plan for them.