2013: A Review

January
This was our first New Year celebrations in our own place. We had a lot of fun creating our own memories especially when this happened:

Larry got an amazing job offer and this was also when we found out my family was separating to new states. Great Up and Down start to 2013 for us.

February

 A good friend of mine got married in February and it was so fun to see how different Polynesian weddings can really be. We had a lot of fun celebrating with her on her big day. I also got my new job as Ops Specialist on my team this month (though I didn't technically start till later, it was good to know I got it and could look forward to it this month). Not Super eventful, but we were focusing a lot on wedding stuff back then.

March

Um..I found a cool new site and made up a new phrase ("Accountability Pants"). Apparently March is a slow month for me/us.

April

April also seems to be a slow one for us. I got addicted to Vampire Diaries (and still am to this day!), we got our wedding invitations to mail out. And I REALLY got into running and working out. This biggest thing though is my brother, Shawn, got married. We all LOVE Amber and Baby Will is the best new addition to our family (though he wasn't technically an addition at this point).

May

 

 

I got to have my Bridal Shower (thrown by my awesome Mom) that month. It was so much fun seeing everyone and seeing all the fun new house stuff we got :)


June

This, of course, was our biggest month! We got married and got to go on our amazing honeymoon! I already want to go back to Hawaii (just with more money this time haha). It's a day I will never forget!

We also celebrated 1 year in our Condo this month! We were on our honeymoon at the time, but I sure didn't forget :)

July

July was a pretty eventful month. First my brother came home and we had a fun time surprising mom with his homecoming (perfect timing, it was right before they had to leave for TN), second Baby Will was born (who is the cutest baby boy ever!), and third our Minnie was born (but we didn't get her until August) It was definitely fun welcoming all the new people (even if they've been a part of the family for a while).
We also had our first post-wedding outing to Park City. It was completely planned last minute, but I had SO much fun riding the roller coaster, slide, eating food, and doing the zipline (a bucket list item). Ending with some ice cream made it that much better :)



August

August was also pretty eventful, we got Minnie:

 We also got some Bucket List things crossed off (like going to see Three Days Grace, hikes, hiking attempting Kings Peak, and both of us finally having our guns):

Unfortunately, August brought us goodbyes to Mom and Will who moved to MS for his promotion. It's been sad to not have them around, but we have our weekly Skype calls with everyone and it's really brought me closer to Larry (I've heard that before, but didn't believe it till now).

September

The biggest thing in September was when we got to visit Cindy and see her amazing new house! We also did a hike and saw Bear World. It was a short trip, but I had so much fun on it! It reminded me just how much I love my family!

October

October was a big Traveling month. We were able to go to the Bahamas and do Disneyworld in Florida. It was a pretty amazing trip (minus the awful hotels!). We got to see some pretty cool sights in the Bahamas (including close up 6-ft sharks!) and I've ALWAYS wanted to go to Disneyworld! It got expensive and I'm pretty sure I'm still trying to get over how much we spent (I still really hate spending money these days because of this trip), but in the end it was SO worth the memories!

November

In November, my sister, Ariel, got married so I got to fly out to Indiana and help them celebrate. It was such a happy time and I'm SO glad I got another chance to hang out with my dad's side of the family. I swear our visits are never long or often enough, but I LOVE them every time they come up. I'm hoping now that everyone has moved out of state we'll get a chance to go out and see everyone more.
I also learned on this trip that Minnesota is WAY more exciting than I thought and their airport is SO cool, I want to plan a trip over there now to see Mall of America haha.
Larry also got his job offer in November so we found out he'll be working from home and got a nice pay "package" with the offer. One of the things that concerned us is how long it would take him to find a job and now we don't have to worry and it's a better opportunity than we could've wished for!.
And the biggest thing (for me at least) was Mom got to visit for Thanksgiving so we got to spend a couple days with her and Will. It was a pretty awesome Thanksgiving!

December

December has been full of decorating for Christmas, getting ready for New Years, visiting MANY relative for the holidays, enjoying my birthday, and just trying to take breathers when we can. The biggest thing to note is Larry got his wisdom teeth out so we've been working on him eating regular food and healing as quickly (but also safely) as possible. We've got some fun new games and toys to play with from the holidays. Tonight, for New Years Eve we're going to go see Christopher Titus at Wise Guys in West Valley so we're really excited to end our year on such a fun note (not to mention it feels like the first real adult New Years Eve celebrations we've done!)


All in all 2013 was really good to us, we got married, got to celebrate one year in our condo, did a lot of fun summer activities and ate a TON of food during the holidays. We said some goodbyes, got a few new additions and just had fun as much as we could. I'm SO looking forward to 2014 and hope we can make it an even better year.

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYONE!!!!