2011 Year In Review

Looking back onto 2011, we had a great year!  Far better than our 2010 year… if you recall, that was a rough year for us, we were faced with constant challenges/difficult situations but our 2011 was the complete opposite.  I sum up 2011 by describing it as FUN.  We traveled a lot and had some great times with family and friends.  A recap of what we were up to in 2011… 
 

We started off 2011 in Kansas City with a fun group of our friends, very memorable experience and made us realize how fun it is to travel with friends, something we decided to do more of in 2011. 

Towards the end of winter we had our bathroom remodel.  Started out fun but then realized we were in over our heads with this project.  Something we optimistically thought could be done in a long weekend, took 6 grueling weeks to complete.  But it turned out how we wanted it to and Aaron learned many handyman skills that have become useful.   No pain no gain, right?!?!

Early summer, Aaron and I spent a long weekend in downtown Chicago and had a really fun weekend of shopping, dinner dates and enjoying the city. 

I spent most of the year up till then planning our vacation to Colorado, we had a really good time but I over planned as usual and we were pretty beat by the end of this vacation.   Lesson learned; don’t try to cram 24 hours of vacationing into every day.  J

I thought we were done with our travels for the year, but then got a wild idea to go to Vegas with a few friends.  Well our big discovery in 2011 is that Aaron and I really really love Vegas!  We had way too good of a time and we are itching to get back there!   Vegas is our #1 MUST DO AGAIN in 2012!  What I’d give to do that weekend all over again… J  Vegas was one big highlight of our year!

Late summer, we became business owners!  Aaron co-owns a Complete Nutrition Store out in Reno, NV.  Aaron has always had the entrepreneur bug in him and he has learned a lot thru the process of getting a store up and running but so far so good!  He is looking into some more business ventures for 2012. 

Another HUGE highlight of our year was getting our sweet little Charley.  She is the spunk in our lives! We had always talked about getting a puppy and we FINALLY followed thru on it and I’m glad we did.  Her little personality is so fun-loving and playful; she fits in pretty well here in our home.  She’s a spoiled little puppy but we just love her to pieces!   

Towards the last half of the 2011, Aniston, our niece was born, I celebrated my 30^th birthday, we celebrated our 2^nd anniversary, and Elijah, our new nephew was born.   Lots of celebration to be had!

We had an amazing 2011 blessed with family, friends, good health, fun travels, love, and lots of laughter!   I’m pretty optimistic that 2012 will be another fun year to come!