2015!

2014 came and went so fast!  Let's recap: We kicked off 2014 with a trip to the mountains with friends.  We spent a day on the ski slopes before Tyler, myself and one of our friends all took turns with a stomach bug :( After we returned, Tyler's brother, Chris, came out for a visit.  We had an abnormally cold winter for North Carolina and had two 3-day stretches off because of roads covered in ice and no salt trucks.  Tyler and I checked the Duke vs. UNC basketball game off our bucket list - and it was such a great game to see!  In February, Tyler's dad and Suzanne came out for a visit.  In March we traveled to DC for a continuing education for Tyler and met up with my friend Amelia.  In April we headed to Atlanta for a weekend to spend with friends, Sara and Jasper, celebrated Tyler's birthday, I spend a fabulous weekend in Nashville celebrating Bente's bachelorette party, and we both traveled back to MN where Tyler attended a dental conference and celebrated Judd and Rask's bachelor parties and I soaked up family time and helped my sister prepare her nursery.  In May we had such a fun weekend with my brother and Jennifer on their visit and we traveled up the coast to the Outer Banks to celebrate our 3 year wedding anniversary.  The best part of 2014 was the birth of our sweet, adorable niece, Evelyn Rose.  In June we headed back to MN to celebrate Judd and Bente's wedding.  I stayed the week after to spend with my new niece and catch up with friends.  In July we found out we were expecting! I also made another trip back to MN to celebrate my friend, Alicia's wedding, soak up more Evie time, go wedding dress and bridesmaid dress shopping for my little sister's wedding (and luckily we found both!), and celebrated my grandma Rose's 80th birthday with a weekend camp out with my entire extended family.  In August we took another weekend trip to Atlanta and soaked up the NC beach time - Tyler was on the stand up paddle board surfing waves at least twice a week.  We also completed a lot of house projects - had our fence and window treatments installed, Tyler installed a back splash, made us a headboard and we finally have some pictures on our walls.  In September we celebrated my birthday and Tyler flew back to MN to celebrate his high school friend, Dustin's wedding and announce our pregnancy news to his family and friends!  My parents and both grandmas came to visit for a long weekend in October.  We got good news after a pregnancy scare and found out we are having a little girl ;)  Also in Oct., my high school friend, Sara, came for a visit.  In November, Tyler traveled back to MN to go hunting up north and we babymooned to Savannah, GA.  In December we kicked the baby prep into high gear and started our nursery, set up our estate plans and a trust, and life insurance, etc., and went back to MN yet again for Christmas and lots of baby showers!   What a great year.

2015! Yay! We spent the night on a dinner and movie date.  We are not really big into resolutions but instead decided to make goals for 2015.  Our goals for 2015 are: (1) read 12 (at least) books each, (2) workout 5x a week, (3) max our our Roth IRAs, (4) live in the present, (5) limit technology, (6) make more of an effort to avoid sugars and processed foods, (7) read to our daughter daily, (8) pay down 1/3 of our remaining student debt, (9) take more pictures and for me to learn how to use our nice camera and edit pictures, and (10) is some career goals for each of us.

We are so excited for all the adventures that await us this year.  Tyler has already traveled to Utah on a ski trip with his dad and some friends.  We are welcoming our baby girl into this world in a matter of days or weeks!  We have so many visitors lined up for the spring already and expect more in the fall.  We can't wait to return to Minnesota in May/June to celebrate Danielle and Aaron's wedding and Evie's first birthday.  We plan to fully take advantage of a relaxing beach summer.  We are also hoping to make a trip to the mountains, another trip up to the Outer Banks and at least one more trip to MN before Christmas.