2011...A Quick Review

This past year was certainly been filled with ups and downs, but all in all it has been a good year because I survived it all!  I will miss 2011 and all the good times it provided me but I am so ready for a new year like never before!  So here are the goods (ups) and bads (downs) of my year, 2011:

Goods:

• Started a blog to keep people in the loop regarding my life
• Began taking fitness classes at the gym at school
• Met and began dating Brian
• Finished my second year of college
• Went to Nampa, ID for the first time
• Got to ride my horse nearly everyday during the summer
• Boated on the Columbia River for the first time
• Moved into my first apartment with my best friend, Laura
• Got an apartment pet, a fire bellied toad
• Started my junior year of college
• Turned 21
• Got my own gun...a BB gun
• Hosted a farm Thanksgiving
• New football coach at WSU
• Finished fall semester with really good grades
• Got done with finals week really early, which meant more time at home for the holidays
• Caught up with the times by getting a smartphone
• Family, friends, food on the table, and a roof over my head

Bads:

• School starting after winter break last January
• 20 inches of snow in 24 hours and I had to work and go to school that day
• Summer break ending
• Living away from my family and Brian
• Family health problems

By making this list, I can easily say that 2011 was a pretty darn good year for me!  2012 has big shoes to fill but I know it and I can do it!  Happy early new year!