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A check in

I haven't blogged in a really long time and I was thinking about this the other day. But figured I'd do a little life update on here. Ryan and I were talking about amusement parks the other evening and he thought I had never been to one with him. He said "your memory of Six Flags with a guy must have been a college or high school boyfriend. We haven't gone together" 

So I busted open this blog - and referenced a post from 2013 when we were stationed in San Antonio and walla! I proved him wrong :D 

That led me to realize this blog is really nice. While facebook/instagram is a great place to hold pictures with random captions about the day. My blog really demonstrates a little more feeling to it all. 

I wish I had been better about blogging throughout Maddy's 1st year of life. But here are I am. 

We've been a little busy since my last post in October. Since October we have

-Gotten settled into our cabin

-Sold our house 

-Bought a new house 

-Moved

-Acquired 2 more rental properties with our business

-Ryan has traveled a ton with work

-Maddy had a 3-day hospital stay back in November due to a pesky scorpion sting 

-Ryan's 2 siblings (Erin & Nick) came out for Christmas with their families and we hosted a big Christmas celebration with family.  

-Maddy & I drove out to San Diego for a week in January to stay with Ryan while he was here on a work trip. It was my 1st longish, solo, road-trip with the babe. She was 11 months old at the time - and it went great!

-My parents came out in February for 3 weeks, as did my sister Lisa and her family. It was such a delight to have family around!!! 

-We are back in San Diego while Ryan works (maybe I'll pull it together to do a recap post on the great trip we are having).

While my social media account hosts a plethora of pictures of Maddy...below are her "1 year photos" we had taken at our favorite place to hike. It is located about 5 minutes from our house. She hated the photography session, as it was a cold morning (for Arizona). But I still love how they turned out. 







 

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Lisa from Lisa's Yarns said…
You guys have packed a lot in during the last 6 months or so! Love that you could prove Ryan wrong by showing him you did in fact go to an amusement park together!!! I am glad that I've blogged over the years as my memory of things gets pretty tenuous, especially what Paul was doing at various ages. So it's been nice for me to go back and read about Paul at these stages! It is work to blog, but I can squeeze it in during downtime during my work day so that makes it more manageable for me!
April 28, 2022 at 8:04 AM
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