cold.

So life has been rather unexciting around here for the most part.  It snowed. And got cold.  I don't like the cold.  It makes me not want to leave the house; to curl up in a cozy little ball in my big fuzzy white blanket and stay put all day long.  Walking to work in the cold is miserable.  Work has slowed down so the days go very slowly and it is dark when I come home leaving me wondering where the day disappeared to.  Lukas' classes are going well and he only has a few weeks left before student teaching.  There are so many exciting things coming up.  I can't wait for springtime and sunshine and all of the great life things to come.

So this is a short post but I just wanted to check in and say hi.

With love.

A year in review.

Happy 2012!  Sorry we are a little delayed in our well wishes.  We were blessed with the opportunity to travel home for a three day weekend and visit with our families for the New Year and it was fabulous!  There was lots of celebrating, family time and time spent with good friends.  I love opportunities to step away from the big city, and all of our obligations, and just spend time enjoying life.

I wanted to take a minute and remember a few big blessings we have experienced in the last year.

~2011 was our first full calendar year as a married couple!

~Lukas finished up almost all of his undergraduate classes (just a couple of pre-professional classes and student teaching left and then graduation!)

~Erin was promoted at work (yay for being full time with benefits!)

~Erin was also able to spend 11 wonderful days in Europe with her aunt and her cousin.  Traveling from Paris to Elbeuf (a little town in France) to Brussels.  AMAZINGNESS!

~We smushed one car (goodbye trusty Taurus) and got a beautiful AWD-cdplayer-heatedseat-sunroof-green-subaru upgrade.

~We gained a very handsome little nephew! Uncle Lukas and Aunt Erin can't wait to meet you in person little man!  Hopefully sometime soon!

~We were both blessed with good health, amazing family and friends (both new and old), and we are very excited to see what the new year holds!

With Love.