1000 hours outside

Happy New Year! It's the first day of the new year and I'm very excited to have a "clean slate" for our 1000 hours outside challenge. 

We were able to log 259 hours last year. These were very loosely tracked and we started in April, so it's not complete for the whole year. But, I'm happy to see that we got a pretty good amount in!

Our total hours for 2022

I'm excited for our new year of tracking 1000 hours outside. I am excited to be more intentional, but I'm most excited to have a new way to track. I put the 1000 Hours Outside app on my phone and we already tried it out today. I can say I am super happy with it already. I just have to push the play button when we head out the door and then stop it when we're done. Only problem I foresee is forgetting to start or stop when we're out and about. I'll have to be intentional about that too!

I also started listening to the 1000 hours outside podcast. My first one! It was very inspiring and helpful. 

We're off to a good start for the first day of January too! We have an hour for today, and plans to be out tomorrow for a short hike/walk as a family. 

Today's "first day" hike was just a short jaunt around the block with Alex driving his RC car. He was excited to take it out. Who needs a dog when you have RC cars to walk?

I tried to get some interesting pictures but we didn't go far. I did however spy some buds just barely popping up out of the dirt. Signs of the first flowers already!

I also got some outside time in the backyard cleaning up a little. I was able to get around the fire pit cleared out so we can at least go out for a fire on a nice evening this week. It was a nice quiet, peaceful time to just think and listen to the birds. The sun was out too.