New year...New You!

So I really meant to write before 20 days into the new year...but you know how that goes! First off just wanted to update you on my year so far...we had a New Years Eve party at our house, that was super fun! Heres a picture for you:


It was was a good time! I even had confetti & balloons, and silly string! All my favorites! It was great! Then Jer's parents came into town & we went up to DC for a couple days! that was really fun too. So now that all that has happened, we are just tryin to get into the swing of things in the New Year.
So we all know that a New Year means new resolutions. I was asked what resolutions had I set...and I hadn't really set any except to do the best i could at honoring God with all of me. I know what that looks like for me, and not really going to share with you! Sorry. But another thing that I learned recently was that I had been holding on to the traditions of man rather than the commands of God. See there are so many things that I thought would have done or been in a differnt place in my life than I am right now, and often I get so caught up in the traditions of man. You know the kind that say, you get married, buy a house, and then have a baby, raise the baby, then travel with your husband after the kids are gone. So here lately God has been changing my paradym. He showed me that those were and are merely traditions of man, when in reality I should be focusing on what God commands of me. So now I'm trying to sort through what that looks like for me. What commands from God are going to be where he takes me next, you know? I know part of that means laying down those "traditions" of man.