Jeremiah & Hannah's Blog: A Virtual Christmas Card

2018 already?! I think pretty much everyone says this every year, but 2017 flew by! It was a year filled with so many incredible memories so Jeremiah and I wanted to do a wrap up of 2017 and a look forward to 2018! We decided to just make this a virtual Christmas card of sorts as well.

Best memories of 2017:

-Wedding day!! Need I say more?

-7 months of marriage! So so wonderful.

-Honeymoon in Cancun, Mexico!

-Graduation from ASU with my BS in Kinesiology

-Jeremiah's graduation from ASU with a MS in Mechanical Engineering

-Moving to Westminster, CO
-Getting to decorate and make our apartment our own!

-Jeremiah getting a job at Lockheed Martin

-Jeremiah starting his job at Lockheed!

-Starting and successfully finishing my first semester at Regis University

-Celebrating marriages of family & friends: Kim & Sam, Sarah & DJ, Adam & Andrea, Nick & Payton

-Visiting: Sedona, Cancun, Rochester/Syracuse/Buffalo, Philadelphia, NYC, Disneyland, Rocky Mtn National Park, Beaver Creek, Salina/Lindsborg, KS... I think that is everything!

Things we are looking forward to in 2018:

-Marriage! Looking forward to new experiences to come every single day!

-Hopefully visiting Yellowstone and exploring more locations in Colorado!

-Completing my first rotation (Aug-Oct 2018)... TBD where that will be located at.

-Tommy and Emily's wedding in Oct 2018

It seems like this is the first year in a while that we don't have some big life event like a graduation, engagement, wedding, etc. So we are thinking it will be a more quiet year, but we are looking forward to it just as much.

To end 2017 we had such a great visit to AZ!! Family, friends, food, fun! We decided to road trip down there rather than fly, which was about 12.5 hours, so it was long, but a smooth drive. We actually spent a large part of the car ride reading my Harry Potter book to each other. This was actually my longest stretch of not being in AZ, so the ride there was full of fun anticipation! We stayed with Jeremiah's parents for the first half and my parents for the second half so we were able to evenly split our time. Christmas Eve we went to RMCC for a Christmas Eve service and it was great to be there again! We had dinner on Christmas Eve at Jeremiah's grandparents house with a delicious traditional Swedish meal of Swedish meatballs and potato sausage- yum! Then we went to another Christmas Eve service with his whole family, back to Jeremiah's parents' house for delicious desserts and opening presents! We love traditions, so it was especially great to be back in AZ for Christmas and do the traditional activities that we love and feel like nothing has changed! Though it was a little bit different because I have never not woken up at my parents' house on Christmas day. But no need to worry, we still got there nice and early! Once everyone else arrived we had a delicious breakfast before opening presents, which is always quite a long process with as many people as we have there! After presents we played games, prepped dinner, and enjoyed each others' company! I love just hanging around the house with everyone together literally all day on Christmas. We missed the Lucas Family though!!

The rest of our trip to AZ included: Games with Jeremiah's family, seeing the new Star Wars with Nathan, Breakfast at Crackers&Co with Kyle and Stephanie, Pedicure and Lunch with my mom, Grandma, and cousin (lunch included the Mosers!), J had lunch with his friends Eric and Kevin, Oregano's & Game Night with Tommy and Emily, The Fellas (a group of our friends) Secret Santa party, Bridesmaid Dress shopping with my friend Emily, J played racquetball and got Barro's with Tommy and Greg, Hike & Lunch with Sarah, DJ, Morgan, Stephen, Angela, and Marsie, another game night with Sarah, DJ, Morgan, Stephen, Brian, and Terrisa, Hockey with my family, Preston's 1st birthday party, Nick and Payton's NYE wedding, and hanging around with our families in between!... So I guess you could say we kept busy?

There was so much that we wanted to do and see while we were in AZ! We have a friend who often doesn't tell people when exactly he is in town because he knows there are just so many people he wants to see and who want to see him that it can almost be overwhelming. We didn't really understand why he would do that until this trip! But despite being on the go most of the time, we loved every minute of it! The drive home was definitely less exciting, but a smooth drive nonetheless and always nice to be back in your own space. Jeremiah was back to work the next day where he hit the ground running and things have been going well for him there! Meanwhile I have been cherishing every moment of my last week off!