NEW YEAR, NEW ADVENTURES...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Yes, I realize that I’m a teeny bit late, but seeing as this is my first post for 2012, I thought it necessary to say!

For the New Year Kyle and I decided to make a resolution together, and I’m pretty in love with the idea! Our goal for 2012 is to try at least one new thing every month. It can be a new food or restaurant, a new activity, or anything else we can come up with. We realized that we’ve been so busy with school and work, that we haven’t really given ourselves the chance to experience Louisville and life in general. So, we are working on changing that, and are planning our new adventures for the upcoming months.

For our “January New Thing” we went tubing at Paoli Peaks in Paoli, Indiana. We bundled ourselves up and made the hour and a half trip north with my sister and a few of my cousins for night time tubing. And we had a BLAST!

I have to admit that I was a little nervous at first, but after a few times down the hills, I was a pro (not that there’s anything too difficult about sitting on a tube and sliding down a hill though, right?). Eventually I got brave enough to go down on my stomach and once even went down on my stomach with no hands—such a risk taker I am!

We had so much fun and decided that our “January New Thing” was a success! Now, on to February—which by the way, I already have planned! But I can’t share it with you just yet. I’m going to surprise Tilton. And I have a feeling he is going to love it!

Until next time…

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