I published my first two books this year and it has been a hard, rewarding, learning experience from the very beginning but I hope this is just the beginning! Thank you to everyone who supported my author journey, I can't wait to see where it goes next and I hope there are many, many more books in my future. I am so happy and proud to have finally made my dream of becoming an author come true.
Mason celebrated his second birthday this year and learns so much every day it is amazing. He is smart and sassy and independent, but I wouldn't expect anything less of him. He is my child after all. He started a new daycare in August and loves to go to "school" and "play" with all his friends. He is still a good eater and loves his vegetables, but also loves Mac and Cheese and candy. We are hoping using the potty will be his next big milestone (finger crossed for everyone involved). Mason loves Real Salt Lake and going to the soccer games; he was even a soccer player for Halloween. He is obsessed with the Paw Patrol and had a very Paw Patrol themed Christmas, which he loved spending with his cousins at Nana's. Although he is definitely a challenge some days, Mason brings so much joy to our lives and I don't know what we would do without him!
In probably one of the most unconventional ways ever we learned we will be welcoming a new baby in 2018! For those who haven't heard that story, I had a bad bout of appendicitis in late July, so bad in fact that they couldn't do surgery because it was too risky and would've been much more invasive than was preferred by anyone (me and the doctors). So after a five-day hospital stay, I was released and scheduled to have my appendix removed six weeks later when the infection and inflammation had had time to go down. John and I arrived at the surgery center the morning of my scheduled surgery, only to find out I was pregnant and wouldn't be having surgery that day after all! Baby number two is coming late May.
We had a lot of adventures this year from a family trip to South Dakota to a five-year anniversary celebration in San Francisco to a trip to Seattle for an authors conference.
I can't wait to see what to see what 2018 brings for me and our little family! And I'm wishing you all a happy, healthy 2018.
