2013

I've really dropped the ball at blog keeping. I was so busy the first half of the year and so down the second half that I haven't wanted to share much. So here's a quick review of the year.

January: I was called to serve in the Stake Young Women's Presidency as secretary. The calling was short lived but it's been my favorite and most special thus far.
February and March: They were so full of training meetings for my new calling that I don't remember much else. Except February our great friends Steven and Ashley were sealed in the temple and we were able to be there for that amazing day.
April: Dj finally, finally received California residency at age 26, in his last quarter of school.

He also finished his senior project, Twitchy the bear, and put it on display at Cal Poly. It was a huge success and the public loved it. Kudos to him, Spencer, and Segiv for working so hard on it.

May: I quit my job at Pacific Coast Pharmacy. It will probably be the last job I will ever have to do so that we can survive financially. We visited Santa Rosa and found an apartment. We also celebrated 3 years of marriage, it's been amazing! Oh yeah and I turned 25!!
June: Dj graduated from Cal Poly!

He gave a speech at his graduation, Brad and Shanyn, and his parents, uncle, my parents, and Aunt Suzie and Uncle Colon came out to help us celebrate.  We moved out of our beautiful little piece of paradise up on Hawk Hill Lane to the bustling city of Santa Rosa, Ca.

July: Dj started his job with Agilent Technologies.
August: Dj was called to be the Elder's Quorum secretary in our new Stony Point Ward.
September: I was called to be a Sunday School teacher for the 14-18 year old teenagers. It's been the most terrifying thing for me, but I know it's good for me. My mother had a health changing seizure.
October: The seizure my mom had also made it possible for me to see my sister for the first time in 6 years and introduce Dj to her.
November: We drove Utah with Dj's uncle to celebrate Thanksgiving with our Utah family. Dj also participated in his first 5K, Run or Dye with our buddy Matt.

December: I spend a wonderful day in Greenfield by myself just to see my brother Ryan, it was much needed and I'm so grateful to have such a guy for a brother. We hosted our first extended stay visitors in our new apartment, Dj's parents came out with Grandpa to spend New Years with us and his uncle came up from Woodside. We also graduated to our very first joint phone plan with fancy new phones which is a huge thing for us.

2013 was full. It had sad moments but it was beautiful. Dj and I have never needed and depended on each other so much and we've never been closer. I've been homesick more than I've ever been in my life but I've been stretched differently than I ever have before in my life.

This year I'm going to try and live this quote a little more, it's by Walt Disney.

"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."

Here's to 2014, less looking backward, more trying new things, and more adventures.
Lots of love from the Waldrons.