2017 - In Review

It's my annual wrap-up. In the past I've felt like a lot of what I write in my yearly review was covered already in posts, but since I've post so infrequently this year, it's like it's all new!

2017 Highlights:

• Baby Felicia was born. We just love her. (And she looks more like me than my others, which also makes me so happy.) (I also got a new nephew this year.)
• Eric finished his grad program! No more grad school! More salary! Hooray!
• Trixie's cardiologist said he doesn't even need to see her in 2018! We'll go back around January 2019.
• Ike has made great strides on the piano. He doesn't always love it, but he's getting to a point where he can practice something until he gets it right, so he understands the concept that hard-fought things are often worthwhile.
• SOLAR ECLIPSE. I took all four kids by myself to Jackson Hole. It was amazing. I already have 2024's on my calendar. We'll be in Dallas for that one.
• I am going to be on an episode of "Who Do You Think You Are?" in the spring. (I filmed it in early October.)
• Work changes are always happening, and I'm really happy with my current setup.
• I feel like I'm finally in a groove with ward choir (I'm choir conductor) where I sort of know what I'm doing. We actually did multiple musical numbers on Christmas Eve instead of just one, like last year.
• Eric did three weeks at summer camp this year, including one week where I was super pregnant and nearly everyone came down with a stomach bug. The other two weeks were post-baby, and we all survived.
• We bought our minivan, Sylvia.

Places in 2017:

• I went with Heather (former roommate) to Priscilla's wedding in Newport Beach, California. [Tropical Storm] Lucifer tried to prevent us attending the temple sealing, but he was thwarted.
• Spring break in Seattle!
• Jackson Hole for the eclipse, and then again a few weeks later for my nephew's mission farewell.
• I went to Los Angeles for the above-mentioned filming. My hotel was in Hollywood, which is pretty cool.

Birthdays:

• We kept up with Cold Stone, except for my birthday, where we just plum forgot! I was so upset when I realized it, but I was recovering from strep throat on my birthday and life just really got away from me that week.
• The other birthdays in our family were pretty low-key (even the actual birth-giving day was pretty mellow). 
• Eric and I celebrated our anniversary as a "family birthday," which was a lot of fun.

2017 Goals:

• I'm not finished with Personal Progress, but I am still working on it. Definitely should finish in 2018.
• I wanted to focus on getting steps in, and I did really well until about April. I started having a lot of contractions when I treadmilled, so then I took it easy for a few months. And then I had a baby.
• I did submit some writing for a genealogy publication! They sent it back and told me some corrections I need to make, and I still need to make those and re-submit.

2018 Goals:

• Finish Personal Progress.
• Finish making those corrections on my genealogy piece and re-submit.