2017: A Year in Review

Well, another year has come and gone and I still haven't legally changed my last name yet. So, it's pretty much a failure of a year EXCEPT for a lot of great things. I'll dive right in.

1. We moved into our very first home! And have our very first loan! And pay our very first mortgage! We feel so grown-up (having to buy our own blinds and being excited for big purchases like a fridge) and it's all very exciting (and expensive) stuff! You know what sucks? Decorating for CHRISTMAS! You just want to spend alllll your money on Christmas stuff. Once we went to Home Goods and spent $300.00 and after I put everything up, me and B were both like, "Where are all the things we bought? I swear we bought way more stuff! It should have decorated 15 houses!" Lo and behold, decorating a house feels like a black hole.

2. I got a new job! It's very very bittersweet because I LOVED PROLOOK SO MUCH! I'm good friends with every single person I worked with and I miss them. But I saw a job opening to be a content marketer at BYUtv at I just applied on a whim. I got the job and have worked there for a few months and it's going good! I mean, I am a very, very small fish in a big pond (which is a lot different than it was at PROLOOK) but the hours and people are great.

3. B turned 29, which probably doesn't seem big—but that's big. How is he almost 30? That's weird and we both feel weird saying he's 29.

4. I got called to be the primary  chorister in our ward that has 12 million kids. That also doesn't seem like a big deal, but I cried when I found out. I came home, B was still in bed, I told him my new calling and he laughed so hard while I laughed/cried so hard. Ha! honestly I think it was just another thing added to my plate that at the time, seemed impossible—it's really not that bad, I think I actually like it. Never mind the fact that I am a horrible singer, (I'm known for being the only member of my family that didn't get the singing gene), but it's cool. While I'm up in front of the kids, in my head I'm thinking, "yah . . . this song does not sound good coming out my mouth" but hey, I sing loud. It's #forthechildren.

And Blake is the Young Men's 2nd counselor, which I feel like should always be his calling, he's so good with those kids!

5. We opened 2 new studios this year! One in Vineyard and one in South Provo. SO, if you are in the market for a non-competition dance studio for your littles, HIT UP JIVE! And the concert planning for Riverton and Orem studios is in full swing and it's the most horrible/most exciting time of the year! I have a love/hate relationship with all of it, but mostly love the challenge of it all.

6. We finally upgraded to a king sized mattress—which, we were way pumped about. But if we're being honest here, I haven't even noticed a real difference. B and I are major snugglers, so the extra space? It feels like whatever. But I'm sure the occasional nights when I get restless leg syndrome will feel way better as B won't try to murder me in my sleep from moving and stretching and kicking my legs (and him) every 5 seconds.

7. We've watched more of "The Office" this year than any other year. Man, we love this show. This time around, B got really sad when Micheal Scott left. It was weird and he didn't want to watch it for a few weeks, but we are back on schedule and watch it every night before bed. It definitely beats all the boring documentaries that B loves to watch before going to bed.