A good place to start is looking back over the past year. Some of it seems like it took place decades ago...other parts seem like only yesterday. 2018 was definitely a year of travel for me, with lots of bucket list locations crossed off!
JANUARY
I kicked off the year with some riding — something I have yet to do this year, unfortunately, since it has been so wet.
FEBRUARY
My parents went to visit friends in Scotland and left two of their dogs with us. Combined with my three, it made for some interesting walks. I'm sure most passersby thought we were a dog walking business.
MARCH
One of my BFFs got married! I love attending weddings with my forever date.
APRIL
We spent Easter weekend in Honduras. It was beautiful and amazing and I am constantly daydreaming about snorkeling in the clear waters.
MAY
Our European vacation kicked off in May. We spent three nights in Scotland and another night in London before flying to the continent. SPOILER ALERT: Scotland is amazing. We saw a small part – Aberdeen and the areas around it – and I can't wait to go back and see more of the country.
JUNE
Our European vacation continued! I have SO many photos but will just try to include one from each country we visited: Luxembourg, France, Germany, Austria. Just kidding, you get to have several from Germany since we spent a week there and attended a wedding.
We also got to celebrate another friend's wedding once we got back to the States. And, since the wedding was in Virginia, I got to check another state off my bucket list!
JULY
I lost my leopard gecko, Ringo, in July. Philip got him for me as a Valentine's Day gift in 2016, and he was a friendly guy. He got very sick and although my veterinarian friend and I tried to save him, he wasn't able to recover.
We celebrated my husband's big 3-0 this month by going to New Braunfels and floating the Comal River. It's a Texas tradition to float the river, and I had never done it before. The river was CROWDED with people, but we still had a good time.
AUGUST
I attended the Ultra Cruz Open House at San Juan Ranch in Weatherford for my job, where I got to meet stallion CD Diamond. He's not as small as this picture makes him look!
For my job I was sent to cover the FEI World Equestrian Games in North Carolina, which happened to fall at the same time Hurricane Florence was blowing in. It made for some interesting weather and travel situations, but I had a lot of fun getting to see the international equestrian stage!
OCTOBER
We attended the Texas Corgi Round-up in Temple, and man-oh-man can I say that was probably one of the happiest places on earth. I was really impressed with how well-behaved everyone's Corgis were, too.
NOVEMBER
Rosa and I attended a reining/horsemanship clinic at the beginning of November. Despite not being ridden much before it (due to the aforementioned hectic job), she was amazing. The clinician coached me some and climbed on her several times, and I was almost in tears I was so proud of how well she did.
Philip and I also found a neat waterfall in Fort Worth — who knew there was a waterfall right in our backyard?
DECEMBER
December went by wayyyy too quickly. I'm still reeling that it's already January, and almost mid-January, at that. My mom and sister came and visited us in Fort Worth, and then we returned the favor by spending Christmas with them. I got a (terrible) photo of all of the family dogs and made a strawberry Charlotte, which I highly recommend, even if you, like me, are lactose intolerant. IT'S WORTH IT.
With the new year came a big lifestyle change for us — we started the Whole 30 diet — so I will try to update how that goes at the end of the month. HINT: if you're a chocolate lover like myself, it sucks.
Happy New Year!
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