2017: The Year in Review

What a long strange trip it's been! 

We travelled to:

• Houston
• San Antonio
• Portland
• San Francisco
• Yosemite National Park
• Muir Woods
• Chicago 
• Washington, DC

 Favorite 5 books I read:

• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and Birth of the FBI by David Grann
• Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory 
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Five best movies we saw in the theater:

• Logan Lucky
• Hidden Figures
• Wind River
• Logan
• Wonder Woman

 This year, in my spare time, I enjoyed:

• being a wife and a doggie mommy!
• our vegetable garden
• setting up a craft room
• Paper Source crafting kits
• baking, especially making meringue cupcake frostings and trying my hand at cookie decorating
• playing brain games
• reading

Other highlights:

• celebrating our anniversary and receiving the sweetest gift
• seeing the solar eclipse
• The Women's March in January. And all of the phone calls and letters that followed.
• dressing up Zooey and taking her to the Farmer's Market
• decorating for Christmas
• collecting postmarks from places throughout the US
• delving deeper into yoga and dance
• reading in the hammock
• writing to my pen pal
• taking a government course
• seeing government seats flip blue