Last day of 2012

2012 has been an transitional and amazing year in my life. I started out living in Boston, working at Big Sister and finally getting into the swing of my life. In January, Justin, Kurt and I went city shopping throughout Florida and settled on Tampa. February, Justin and I went to St. John with my father. March we were in a Bowling league, Justin was kicking ass, I was trying hard! There were also trips to Wheaton and Arizona before the big move. June marked our first half marathon and a Montauk trip for Father's Day. By July we had packed and started saying goodbye to our friends in Boston. August was the beginning of our Florida adventure full of beach trips and meeting new friends. Then there was the Republican National Convention and an election in a swing-state. I voted for the first time in person! The end of November marked our first thanksgiving in Florida and the end of the semester. December has been a month of travels.  It is amazing to have the feeling of leaving and returning to things that I love.

I apologize in advance for the poor picture formatting. I spent too much time trying to align things and deleted the whole post in the process!

Justin, Kurt and I in orlando

The Garden- First Celtics Game

St. John

Bowling Squad

My girl Jess at the Wheaton Reunion 

Father's Day

Amazing Friend Send-off

Hard to leave our Boston F

Clearwater Beach with Justin, Jim and Alexis

Charlie's Angels? Arie, Alexis and I

Birthday Sunset- Tampa

Happy Halloween- Love us Loofahs

Thanksgiving Dinner

Allen & Steve- Neighborhood sandhill cranes/bullies

Me and Eck

GA love

Tash came to town!

We survived the first semester!

Christmas visit to Montauk

Snowshoeing round 2

Fence jumper

OK! I pushed him

Snow gallop

And I'm back...

I know I have basically taken the semester off from blogging. After the first week of not writing, I avoided the page and then it just became something I wanted to do but felt like I had been gone for too long! My New Years resolution is just to do the things that make me feel good. I think more consistent blogging is one of those things.

Quick updates:

I just finished my first semester of Grad school. I have to say that it was much more stressful than I had anticipated. I was just getting used to my 9-5 when we relocated and all my downtime became unused homework time! The last month Justin, Nala and I have been in the Northeast visiting friends & family.

This has included snowshoeing, making gingerbread aka graham cracker houses and chocolate cheesecake in Maine as well as a trip to Boston, NYC and Montauk to see the fam.

The pictures below were taken during out trip to Montauk, the first few are house on the beach by my house and the last few are town beaches.

Here you can see all the sand that was taken away from hurricane Sandy

Some houses have added sand since the storm 

You can see the damage that has been done to this house 

This is the entrance to the beach... substantial amount of foam

note the exposed deck of one of the waterfront hotels

We are heading back to Florida after the New Year and I am feeling up for the challenge of my second semester. Justin is still playing cards fulltime and I am really proud of him! Nala has entered her terrible two's which apparently comes with some fence jumping. 

The little elf was sleepy on Christmas Eve