2014 As Experienced By Me

In the 12 months leading up to Christmas, my lovely life brought to me:

January: New year, new beginnings,
new hope, book club.

February: Rehearsals for a show, questions
and answers of life and faith.

March: Night of Broadway, visiting the padres in San Francisco.

April: Familiar co-workers at a new job, working out with a trainer (aka learning to love exercise OTHER THAN running), volunteering at the prison, X-rays and MRIs trying to figure out why my knee won’t function properly.

May: New baby niece, annual Disney trip but this time to Florida for Disneyworld, butterbeer and cronuts.

June: World Cup fever (vamos arriba!), 10 year High School Reunion making me feel old, loved watching a good friend go through the temple, expanding my artistic horizons at the Sun Tunnels.

July: A month of family, parents coming home from mission, all of my siblings in one place at one time, driving kiddos from Utah to Ohio, babysitting a different set of kiddos in Kansas, found the beginnings of love.

August: New knee doctor with a new solution, Bear Lake to water ski, moved to a new apartment after almost 4 years, dream trip to New York with my besties.

September: A month of tears, woke up from knee surgery crying tears of joy, lost a dear family friend, tender moments watching my best friend marry the man she loves.

October: More friends marrying their 

true loves, drove a Ferrari just because.

November: Long late hours at work, launched 

a new website, another broken heart.

December: Another month of family, Ohio to visit my brothers and celebrate a life-long love of Tolkien with “The Hobbit”, another book club, celebrating Christmas with the people I love.

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” So grateful for all the amazing people in my life, for the love and acceptance they so freely give me, for the hours of laughing and talking and crying and for the love of my Savior every day.