Wow! 2014 came and went SO fast! It's nearly 1/4 through 2015, so I feel like a real slacker for just getting this posted! I started on it forever ago, but it was really difficult to figure out what we did each month since I basically failed at blogging in 2014. Let's hope I'm better at it this year!
January
We started our new year with some of our best friends, Jen, John and Baby Z! We had a low key night in and we enjoyed every bit of it!
February
We went to the Dominican Republic!
We thought this would be the perfect time to escape the cold. We were right, but we were off by just a couple days! A snow storm caused our flight to get cancelled and we weren't able to get another flight for a few days. We ended up being snowed in at Anna and John's house. It wasn't how we planned to spend our Valentine's Day, but we still had a blast. We shifted our trip around and only had to shorten it by 1 day.
Playa Fronton...such a gorgeous beach!!!
We went to the Dominican Republic!
We thought this would be the perfect time to escape the cold. We were right, but we were off by just a couple days! A snow storm caused our flight to get cancelled and we weren't able to get another flight for a few days. We ended up being snowed in at Anna and John's house. It wasn't how we planned to spend our Valentine's Day, but we still had a blast. We shifted our trip around and only had to shorten it by 1 day.
The boat we had to take to get to Playa Fronton. Totally worth it!
Dirt cheap and delicious street food!
March
We celebrated our 13th dating anniversary!
We went camping in Greenridge! This was my first primitive camping trip. I had a great time, but there's no way I could do more than 2 nights like this!
April
Josh started his second job and things got REALLY busy!
May
We spent a week at the Outerbanks! This was our first time visiting. We rented a house on a 4x4 beach in Corolla with Anna, John, Andrew, Kristian and Chris. We were able to bring the dogs and we had a blast!
We had some great friends get married!
June
We celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary!
We had some MORE great friends get married!
We went camping at our friend Cory's house. He has a ginormous yard and lives near the West Virginia border, so there's lots of hiking nearby.
The guys playing kickball
Four wheelers
July
We went back to Cory's on the 4th for some hiking. It was an absolutely beautiful day!
NC Civil Memorial in MD. This was really cool to see!
August
My cousin who was like my big sister growing up passed away. It's still hard to believe she's not with us anymore. This is the last time I saw her, Thanksgiving 2013.
My little fur brother also passed away (on the same day actually). We had Harley since he was born the day before Josh and I started dating. This is the last time we saw him, when my family came to visit for Easter.
We went to Spain!!! Such an amazing trip!
At the market. They had SO many fresh juices, infused oils, salts...anything you can think of!
La Segrada Familia...Easily the most beautiful building I've ever seen.
In Toledo, probably my favorite city in Spain
Toledo again
Madrid!
We celebrated Josh's 28th birthday while we were in Spain!
September
We went to go see Billy Currington in Baltimore with the Smiths! We had a lot of fun and met a really nice couple from Georgia.
We got to seethe Orioles clinch the division!!!
We went to Boston for the weekend with Dave and Theresa.
We ran in the Dogfish Dash for the second time.
We had a great time, but I let myself down by not finishing the 10K. I opted to do the 5K about 2 miles into the 10K. Oh well. At least I did it.
October
We went under contract on our house in NC.
We went to Vegas for Jen's 30th birthday!!!
We celebrated my 28th birthday by going to Fogo de Chao, a Brazillian steakhouse! YUM!
November
We had our first date night in DC! I can't believe it took us so long!!!
We went home for Thanksgiving and watched UNC get beat up by my Wolfpack! Woohoo!
December
Probably the craziest month ever.
We went to NYC
We bought our house in NC AND sold our house in MD exactly a week later. Super stressful time
We went home for Christmas and woke up on Christmas morning in our new house. :-) We didn't have a tree, but we put a few quick decorations up when we got in on Christmas Eve.
My family came to visit for Easter and we spent the day in DC
May
We spent a week at the Outerbanks! This was our first time visiting. We rented a house on a 4x4 beach in Corolla with Anna, John, Andrew, Kristian and Chris. We were able to bring the dogs and we had a blast!
We had some great friends get married!
June
We went camping at our friend Cory's house. He has a ginormous yard and lives near the West Virginia border, so there's lots of hiking nearby.
July
We went back to Cory's on the 4th for some hiking. It was an absolutely beautiful day!
August
My cousin who was like my big sister growing up passed away. It's still hard to believe she's not with us anymore. This is the last time I saw her, Thanksgiving 2013.
We went to Spain!!! Such an amazing trip!
We celebrated Josh's 28th birthday while we were in Spain!
September
We went to Boston for the weekend with Dave and Theresa.
We ran in the Dogfish Dash for the second time.
October
We went under contract on our house in NC.
We went to Vegas for Jen's 30th birthday!!!
We celebrated my 28th birthday by going to Fogo de Chao, a Brazillian steakhouse! YUM!
November
We had our first date night in DC! I can't believe it took us so long!!!
We went home for Thanksgiving and watched UNC get beat up by my Wolfpack! Woohoo!
December
Probably the craziest month ever.
We went to NYC
We bought our house in NC AND sold our house in MD exactly a week later. Super stressful time
We went home for Christmas and woke up on Christmas morning in our new house. :-) We didn't have a tree, but we put a few quick decorations up when we got in on Christmas Eve.
My goals for 2014 were to:
Get back to my goal weight - Didn't happen, but we had a LOT going on. I'll hit this one in 2015!
Get organized - I did get our house quite organized, then we moved out of it and most of our belongings are in our garage or Jen's garage at this point - I'll have to start this organization thing over too.
Meet our financial goals - Yes, we did meet our financial goals for 2014. Our savings account isn't quite where we hoped it would be, but that's because we didn't start 2014 out with the plan to buy a house! The down payment we were saving has been spent!
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