HAPPIEST OF NEW YEARS!!! 

I completely sidelined this blog for the last couple months, continuing to build memories without documenting any of them. I'd look at all the things I wanted to write about and begin to get overwhelmed. And with the holidays and all the other things going on, it just wasn't my primary focus. So when I started stressing about it, I'd just remind myself that this project is mine, and I get to decide how I feel about it. Stressing about something that I was the only one putting pressure on didn't make a whole lot of sense.

So here I am. Back again. Ready to take on a portion of those memories. Maybe by 2019 I'll have 2017 recorded? ;) 

2017 in Review

2017 was an interesting year. Full of change, full of endings and beginnings. Here's an overview in full (including posts that haven't been written yet!):

So there you go! Those are all the documented highlights of 2017. What's not shown are the in-between moments. Between the captured smiles and happy faces were more memories of laughter and excitement: the night Matt and I camped out on an air mattress in the living room, late nights talking to my roommates at the Hamilton house.... And those other not-as-seemingly-beautiful moments going to my great Uncle Leon's funeral, overwhelmed by all the life changes, questioning what I'm doing, a crying mess at saying goodbye. There were a lot of adjustments in 2017. And in 2018, I finally feel a little more settled in.

I even started a photo project! I resolved to watch and document the sunrise each day of 2018. It will ideally 1) get me to go to bed earlier, 2) find places in Utah I wouldn't have otherwise known about, 3) get me to use my camera every day, and 4) give me my morning back (work used to start at 11am, and now it starts at 9am (at the latest) and is an hour's drive from Provo so my mornings in Utah have been a little different than before). I was about 90% sure (which ranged + or - 10% based on my mood) about actually following through with this, but on new year's day, I woke up alert and ready to go. It's felt SO GOOD to be doing this that I've kept it up each day! (First sunrise of the new year in Rexburg, ID shown below.) 

Cheers to an amazing 2018!