Kevin, Gretchen & Madelyn: So Far This Year

This year so far has felt really busy but looking back I'm really not sure what has taken so much of our time. At work we have been doing our yearly reviews and setting new goals for the year which has really got me thinking about goals in my personal life as well. I want to have more fun, be more adventurous and get back into running.

I have been getting the running bug again, it's hard for me to keep at in the winter because I hate the treadmills at the gym. I did go running a few times while it was still "wintery" but those were rare exceptions. My sister in law, Emilee, invited me to do a 5k Color Run with her in June and I've been wanting to give it a try so I figured why not?! I am so excited!!! When we signed up we had 3 months to train and it's been fun getting back into running, especially with the lovely weather we've been enjoying. Let's hope it stays this way!!

I kicked off the new year by going night skiing with my older sister Natalee and Kelly Canyon. Thanks to my uncle we even got free tickets which made the night that much more awesome! The snow was actually really good, temperatures were perfect and the night well worth it. We grew up skiing, but Natalee and I haven't skied much together due to our age gap. We have talked about going for several years and it finally happened! It was so fun to have sister time!

Natalee found some really soft snow and sunk to her knee. It was quite comical watching her dig out. Then I did the same thing. Safe to say we stayed away from that part of the mountain the rest of the night

That's the face to 2 VERY happy skiers!!!

Another exciting event in January was we BOUGHT A NEW CAR!!! We've been talking about it for awhile now and were hoping we could wait 'til the end of 2015, but the Impala was giving up on us faster than expected and we traded it in while we still could. We purchased a 2013 Dodge Avenger that had low miles and had been well taken care of. We love it! We named it Fury; of course there's a story behind the name, but we'll leave it at that. Credit goes to Adam Snarr for the name.

Valentine's Day was the one year anniversary of having moved into our condominium. A lot has happened to us in the past year and we have come so far, learned a lot and faced many trials and hard things. We LOVE where we live and are grateful for all of the things we have learned in our journey together this far. For Valentine's Day we had made plans with Natalee and Adam to go skiing but the weather had warmed up quite a bit, so we decided to go 4 wheeling in Malad instead. We found lots of snow on the trail, but finally made it the meadow. It was really fun to spend the day outside and it was hard to believe it's only February. On the way home we stopped in Pocatello and had dinner at Texas Roadhouse.