Our Year in Review!

2012 has been such a fantastic year with so many big changes. I'm sad to see it go but also excited for all of the things coming up in the new year. So I'm gonna dedicate this blog post to Anthany and I's first year of marriage!
January

• My family made the move to St. George, Utah. 
• We finished up wedding plans
• We brought in the New Year with our friends and siblings spending hours making hilarious JibJab videos.

February

• I finally graduated from hair school and passed my state tests!
• We got married February 11th. Woop!
• We had an awesome honeymoon at our cabin.
• We moved into our first place, living at my grandparent's house.

 March

• We watched all the Rigby boy's basketball games online, including their big state win!
• I made my first trip to St.George to visit my family
• We got our first pets, three cats. Unfortunately, only one ended up sticking around.

April

• We got to celebrate Easter twice! First, we dyed Easter Eggs with the McCabes
• We then went to St.George and saw the Taylor side
• We spent hours in the little pool playing games and soaking up the sun
• I got hired for my first job at Salon Evolution

May

• We found out my grandparents were coming home from their mission so we had to move out
• We decided to move to Boise at the end of the month
• I made a trip to Colorado to visit my mom's side of the family.
• My cousin, sister, and I dressed up in pink tutus and ran a 10K race together. It was a blast
• We both quit our jobs

 June

• We got all settled into our new apartment in Boise
• We celebrated my 20th birthday!
• I started my new job at Boise Hair Company, Anthany started his job at Enterprise Car Rental
• We spent the entire month sleeping on a mattress on our living room floor, cause it was too hot in our bedroom

July

• We spent our 4th of July watching the parade, wandering around the park, and watching fireworks
• We got to see our first demolition derby
• We spent lots of hours swimming in the pool at our apartment
• We made our first trip back to Rigby 

August

• Anthany started school at Boise State!!
• My big sister got married to Doug Reed
• We got to go to some Boise State football games

September

• We celebrated Anthany's 21st birthday and I got to give him his Xbox!
• I quit my job at Boise Hair Company and started my new job at Fantastic Sams
• Anthany worked hard with 30 hours of work and 14 credits of school a week

October

• We celebrated Halloween, also our year mark since we got engaged!
• We got to go home and spend a few amazing days with friends at our cabin
• We started our temple prep classes!

November

• We started to spend alot of time with new friends, the Woods, O'Connors, and Jones!
• Anthany took me on my first Black Friday trip and we got our Kinect
• We made another trip to St.George to spend Thanksgiving with my mom and siblings
• We went to our last Boise State football game

December

• We set our temple sealing day for February 16th and we are ecstatic!
• Anthany got hired for a new job on campus at the Rec center that he will start next month
• We made a trip home to Rigby for Christmas
• We celebrated Christmas with the McCabes and got to meet their sweet foreign exchange student
• Anthany is on break from school for a few weeks so we are enjoying being able to spend lots of time together.

So that was our year! It's been a year of changes, trips, laughter, new jobs, new friends and newlywed bliss! We feel so blessed for everything we have and for all the exciting opportunities next year will bring for us! I'm excited to make some new year resolutions and to strive to make next year even better than this one! I hope everyone has a Happy New Year!

-Lindsay