2015 in Review, part 2

Tim and I went on many bike trips this summer. It was fun, besides my butt killing me!!! Being on an enduro for 5 hours is no fun in that department.

Checked one more place off my bucket list, this covered bridge near Sleeping Bear Dunes :)

Tim got part of his sleeve done over the course of about six months

I made my first lemon tart! Besides having a slight metallic taste to it (darn metal pan!), it was really good! I will definitely try this again, just in a different pan.

Harvested banana peppers and cucumbers :)

Homemade croissants filled with chocolate or fruit

Went on a camping trip with my entire family! I realized 80% of my photos taken were of Micah :)

Found a place in Traverse City that sells macarons and cupcakes :)

Tried truffle fries for the first time and fell in love <3. With the fries. And my husband :)

Made Giada De Laurentiis' Marinated Salumi Sandwich-so yummy! I even got Tim to eat fennel and arugula!

I got a Dutch oven and made Irish beef stew with mashed potatoes, very yummy!

Spent lots of time on the couch with my family.

Harvesting grapes from my neighbor's yard-I ate bowls full of these, so good!

Celebrated my 27th birthday along with Micah, Rebecca, and Chloe. Rebecca bought me some delicious tea and a sloth tea infuser!

Tim and I (me especially!) wanted to go away for our 1st anniversary. Since we didn't have a ton of money, we decided checking off a bucket list item still in Michigan, aka da U.P.  I'll do a post on this :)

Tim was voted employee of the semester!

2015 was the year of organization! This is an upstairs closet that just houses all the crap we rarely use. My whole thought is that if Tim and I were to die, we don't want people to have to take forever going through our stuff to keep/sell. I want things to be organized. We're slowly getting there.

Kitty and I spent a lot of time on the couch this year. I wonder how many movies I've watched?

Halloween

I've tried making time for myself on weekend mornings. This book helped. It's amazing how much our body craves alone time.

Tim and I tried making meals ahead of time: breakfast sandwiches and cookies, lasagna, and marinara. We did it for one week and stopped. I just think frozen food doesn't taste as good. We'll definitely try it again, but not these recipes. Besides the cookies. Those are awesome. I'll post the recipe sometime.

We hosted Thanksgiving at our home this year, and everything went well :) Minus the mashed potatoes not being cooked all the way. Oh well.

I took Benjamin's senior photos :)

We found our Christmas tree, thanks to a goat :)

I, again, took a lot of cute pictures of Micah :)

I bought this book for Micah that talked all about a brave, courageous little boy named Micah!

Tim turned 28 :)

We celebrated by going to see Star Wars :)

Made our Christmas cookies for the season!

Tim saw some posters on etsy that he wanted for his Christmas present, so I bought three of them; and I saw a couple of rings I wanted on etsy, so he bought me them :). Limit of $50 gifts sort of kept...

Went to my parents for our annual Christmas breakfast :)

New Year's Eve I actually dressed up...for the morning haha. Sweatpants were found later, I just love comfort. My hair actually looked cute though :)

I purchased my first Try the World box and think I love it-I'm going to give them a couple more months to see if I really want to keep subscribing. Good food, just kind of expensive.

This was the last photo taken of 2015!

Overall, I believe 2015 was a year of finding myself through baking, spending time with family, and traveling. Exactly what I'd love to do EVERY year <3.