2011: A Year in Review

In 2011, I…

Buried my toes in California sand / Saw the ocean for the first time / Ate my first Gyro / Visited Sea World / Went through the San Diego Temple / Stayed in a suite in Las Vegas / Moved into our “first home” / Began to hate our first home / Changed my name / Successfully used the excuse of being a newlywed to talk my way out of a bad grade / Passed my first semester of school while being married…barely / Enhanced my love of thrifting / Found a new love of repurposing furniture / Went through all the necessary steps to buy our first home / Backed out at the last minute from buying our first home / Got a promotion at work / Turned 22 / Realized just how much we love our best friends when they moved away / Went on my first “real” shopping spree / Realized my deep down love of Malta, Idaho / Moved into a new apartment / Suffered through the hottest month of summer with no air conditioning / Signed up for my first 8am class / Dropped my first 8am class / Officially got my 5^th speeding ticket / Found my long lost love, IKEA / Got stranded at a gas station in Utah / Went to Chicago {the play, that is} / Missed the annual Branch Girls Weekend / Celebrated Jake’s 24^th birthday / Broke my tailbone in a “Swinging Tree” accident / Tried to regularly cook dinner / Failed at regularly cooking dinner / Became addicted to Grey’s Anatomy / Started my very own blog /  Gained my first “Married 10” / Bought a treadmill to lose my first “Married Ten” / Went to my first Boise State football game / Lost old friends / Gained new friends / Became an Aunt for the 8^th time / Suffered through another long semester / Passed a class I was sure I failed with an A / Broke my camera / Signed up for my last full semester of college / Realized my hatred for ISU / “Reused” one of my old papers for the SAME professor and passed / Watched Jake suffer through the woes of nose surgery / Celebrated our first Christmas together / Was spoiled on several occasions / Reached 1 year of marriage / and finally Greeted 2012

Happy New Year. May 2012 be everything you want it to be. 
♥kate