365 Days of Gratitude

There are 365 days in a year. 52 weeks. 12 months. 8760 hours. 525600 minutes. 31 536 000 seconds. All too often we waste those precious minutes, seconds, hours worrying or being angry when we could be practicing gratitude. I saw a video the other day on a cool photo project that was done and decided this year I will take photos similar to this project and post weekly (more or less) updates on here.

January 1st- A New Year, A New Beginning. 2013 was a great year by every stretch of the imagination. I had the job of a lifetime (which hopefully will be a possibility again this year), made some big decisions and made some great friends and had memorable experiences. That being said I also made mistakes, I learned from them and know 2014 will be a chance to continue to make mistakes, continue to learn and to make new memories and new trails. We rang in the new year at a family friends house, then came home and watched the ball drop! Even though I wasn't in the city with friends it was great to see family and spend some time with them!

Watching the ball drop has become a tradition for our whole family
 now, despite the fact it's an hour later than our New Year.

January 2nd- My Dogs. Cliché I know, but these two are the loves of my life and I miss them like crazy when I am away (so about 11 months of the year). They each have their own unique personalities. The brown weird coloured one (Hunter) is a dog in every sense of the word. He chews on things. He jumps. He gets into absoutely everything. Just as you're about to get mad at him he looks at you with his cute little eyes and his furry little face and your heart melts, then he makes it all worse by jumping up and cuddling while watching TV, or waking you up in the morning with cute little puppy kisses. The black one (Rockey) is older, he just wants to be loved, he will worm his way under your hand and all of a sudden you are patting him. This morning, when they were left alone for a few minutes Hunter started yapping   and Rockey ran upstairs, cuddled up beside me in my bed and took a nap.  They're the cutest.

Tim Hortons cups are all his latest favorite chew toys

Just look at that face... he sucks you in

January 3rd- A Warm House. Another cliché I know, but today was a day I was ever so grateful for a roof over my head and heat. It was a blizzard outside, blowing snow, minus 11 and win gusts up to 70 kph. Craziness. I feel for anyone who is homeless during these cold months and pray they find shelter somewhere warm.

January 4th- Sun. After a few days of clouds and snow the sun makes everything seem better. It is also really pretty on the large amount of snow we have on the ground. Everytime I see a super sunny day all I want to do is be outside. Too bad it's still -15 before windchill, just going to have to enjoy that sunshine through the window today

The view from my bedroom, sun and beautiful
snow what more could I want

Well that's about it for now, I'll post some more in a few days :) If you're interested here is the original video that inspired this project:

http://www.upworthy.com/you-take-zillions-of-photos-with-your-cellphone-why-not-try-something-new-with-them?c=ufb1


Until next time,
Britt