1. Maza turns one. Maza has been the highlight of our year. She has changed so much and is learning and growing every day. We just love our sweet girl and feel so blessed to be her parents.
2. Rich's residency/moving to Oklahoma. For months we wondered and wondered where we would be going next and on January 13th we couldn't have been more excited to find out we were going to Oklahoma for Rich to do a year long general practice residency. We are so grateful for this opportunity. We had a bit of a rocky start, but managed to find a great apartment, make friends and feel quite at home now here in OKC.
3. Rich's graduation & saying goodbye to Pittsburgh-and most especially saying goodbye to the best neighbors in the world Abi and Arie. There were so many times those first few weeks where I would miss the little and the big things that were so great about living next door. We love Pittsburgh and miss our friends and family there. It was a great 4 years. I am so proud of Rich and all his hard work.
4. Lexi moving in with us. Lexi came to live with us for her Sophmore year. She and Maza are roomies and Maza loves having her auntie around. Lexi is loving the high school here and especially loving all the attention the boys are giving her here :) She is taking ballet and walks dogs with me. It is fun to spend time with her in YW (I am the YW secretary which is the best calling ever)
5. Crocheting my first sweater: Crocheting in general was a big part of my year. My friend Melanie was such a great teacher and it was so fun getting together with friends and working on projects. The culmination of my learning came when Melanie told me I could make a sweater for Maza. I didn't think I could do it but we started it anyways and she was right, in the end I made a very adorable sweater if I do say so myself :)
6. Visitors to Oklahoma: We didn't think anyone would come visit us in Oklahoma, but boy were we wrong. In the first two months we lived there we had my Grandma and Grandpa Romero visit, My mom and Halli and Roxanne, Abi, Evelyn & Jack. Each visit was so fun and Maza loved having her family around!
7. Bradshaw reunion: We celebrated Rich's Grandma's 80th b-day and celebrated Jayne and Jason's wedding. We also decided to leave right after their reception to drive through the night 18 hours home. note to self: never ever do that again.
8. Swiss days & becoming a 2 car family: And just when i said to never ever do that drive again, an opportunity came up to have a second car so i couldn't resist. Maza & I flew out to Utah and spent the week seeing family, shopping and going to swiss days. then we brought Taylor up to school at BYU-I. and then Liz was so kind and helped me drive back the 3rd family car so we could use it for the year. Luckily we were in no rush and stopped half way at Liz's friends in Colorado. It was so nice to break up the drive like that. Thanks Liz you were a champion driver! and we love having a second car.
9. getting not one but 2 jobs: I was hoping to make a little extra money while we were here and ended up finding two great opportunities. the first is that i tend 2 girls 2-3 times a week. the oldest is 6 and she is in first grade and the 2nd is one. They are sweet girls and the family is great. It is so fun for Maza to have someone to play with, and even better to get paid for what i'd be doing anyways :) the second is every other weekend or when they need us Lexi and I walk 2 dogs for a neighbor of ours across the street. Maza loves the dogs and it is fun to have some extra cash. My babysitting money is all going into savings for our house some day and my dog money is fun money. :)
10. Other fun trips: our trip to DC/Philly with our dear friends the Biddulph's. our cold but still fun trip to Outerbanks with the Romero's. Our many trips up to Toronto to visit Grandma and Grandpa B, our graduation trip to Puerto Rico!! and our Christmas in CA. I hadn't been home for 2 years at Christmas so it was so great to all be together.
