Fearlessly Falling Into Place: year review

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Sunday, January 14, 2018

2017: Year in Review

Here is how our year went!

- Adam started his last semester of graduate school!
- February was spent mostly with me helping Adam job search and him finishing his thesis project.
- Adam had four job interviews in one week.
- In March, he got offered the job as an Online Curriculum Designer for BYU-Idaho and we accepted the offer!
- We took a quick day trip up to Idaho to look at some rental houses and then signed a lease for one we liked.

- At the end of April, Adam graduated! Both sides of our family came into town to celebrate and then we packed up and moved to Idaho Falls!

- Adam's brother and his wife came into town and we all went to Yellowstone! It was the first time me going and I went to two new states that day (Wyoming and Montana).

- Adam turned 28!
- We traveled to Washington for my sister's wedding and celebrated Adam's birthday and the Fourth of July in Vancouver.
- We got to see my sister get married in the same place that me and my other sister got married! :)

- We adulted super hard and bought a minivan!
- In August, I went on a trip down to Las Vegas (first time in Nevada!) and spent some time with my friend Kayla.

- My mom came to visit and spent Eli's birthday with us!
- Eli turned two!! His language definitely was the biggest development of 2017. He talks all the time and loves learning new things.
- On Eli's birthday, we witnessed the total solar eclipse!
- Labor Day weekend, we traveled to Wyoming for our new niece's baby blessing (Adam's brother's daughter).

- I turned 26!
- In October, we found out that I'm pregnant!!!!! Then I felt sick for the next three months xP haha

- I took a weekend to have some fun girl time with Kayla without our babies!

- My parents and oldest sister's family came to celebrate Thanksgiving with us!

- In December, Adam got diagnosed with blood clots in his leg :(
- We celebrated Christmas and our 6th wedding anniversary!

And that's our crazy year!! Hopefully 2018 won't be as filled with turmoil, but just the exciting entrance of our new baby boy!

Sunday, January 1, 2017

2016: Year in review

Here is what our year has been like!

- We traveled to Washington for my Grandma Crocker's funeral and my parents finally got to meet Eli.

- Adam started his fourth semester of grad school.
- I got a woven wrap which led me down the rabbit hole of babywearing haha.
- Eli learned to sit unassisted.

- Adam's parents came to go with us to the Provo City Center open house.

- We traveled to Seattle and had lots of adventures including sight-seeing, Adam presenting at an international education conference, and my family coming up to spend the day with us!

- Eli learned to crawl.
- We went to Fort Worth, Texas to visit Adam's two sisters (with a brief layover in Denver visiting Adam's parents)!

- Adam went crazy in the spring and did six different intramural sports.
- Eli learned to pull himself up and started the neverending joys of teething :-/
- I led the Climb Out of Darkness for postpartum depression in Provo.

- Adam's parents came to visit for his 27th birthday.
- Adam finished and defended his prospectus!
- I became a certified Volunteer Babywearing Educator!

- Eli learned to walk.
- Eli turned one and we had a birthday party! :)

- Adam started his fifth semester of grad school.
- I turned 25.
- My sister Jessica came to visit and Eli got his first trick-or-treating experience :)

- We decided to stay in Utah for Adam's last semester.
- We celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas in Utah.
- 5th wedding anniversary for us!

Its been a busy year and we can't wait to see what 2017 will bring! We know that the biggest thing will be Adam graduating from graduate school and then who knows where we'll end up :)