How often do you scroll through the photos on your phone?
This morning marks a full year since the first time I woke up in my new apartment in Chicago! It's been a year filled with the expected and the unexpected, some ups and some downs, new horizons, and lots and lots of memories. I tried to pull a few of my favorite pictures from the last year and ended up with an album of over a hundred photos that make me smile ear to ear. Far too many to post or print. When's the last time you printed out some of your favorite photos and put them in frames or on a collage board? I haven't had photos printed in awhile and it's time to pull those memories out of the digital and put them somewhere tangible, somewhere I can smile at their memories a little more often.
That first night in my new place I didn't have much other than an air mattress, but I was too mesmerized by the city lights and all the possibilities a new chapter brings to really care. I love New Year's Eve and birthdays as reasons to reflect back on the past year, but the anniversary of a new apartment is just as fun to think back on. I'm a bit of an over-photo-er...and it took awhile for me to scroll through a full year of photos. So many belly laughs from some of the random pics!
Here are a few snippets of some favorite moments from this last run around the sun (though not at all exhaustive...you'd be scrolling for days if I posted all my favorites!). Might be fun to get one of these HP mini printers to do this a little more often.
First Morning
Move in...
Girls Weekend in Chicago

When it's Warm in Late September...
Jimmy Kimmel Live
The Portofino Hotel & Marina
#cranesonplanes
Cubs Game!
The Night The Cubs Won the World Series!

Winter Wedding in Virginia
Happy Christmas

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Caribbean Blues

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#cranesonplanes

Hot Chocolate on a Snowy Day in Chicago
Making a Snow Lady!
Spaceship (...or a hotel in Atlanta)
#cranesonplanes
My favorite California street.
California in January
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Happiness

Sister Weekend in SoCal
Disneyland Day
Disneyland Day
Even the flowers grow in the shape of Mickeys at Disneyland.
LaLaLand
Griffith Park at Sunset
HP
Started reading Harry Potter in the last year...through Book Six currently!

Favorite Coworker

Began my Yoga Journey
City Sights
View from the Hancock at sunset

As amazing as everyone says...
Hamilton!
Happy Place
OhmCulture Yoga in Chicago's West Loop
New Friends Brunch in Chicago
Bernie's is a gorgeous Chicago spot.

Joined a Book Club
First Selection: All the Light We Cannot See. Loved it!
Playing Tourist on Free Resident Days
The Field Museum

When the Fountains turn on in Chicago

Yoga in the Park
My First Opera
At the Met in NYC!

Girls Weekend in Dallas
Yoga on the Beach

Girls Weekend in Chicago
We did all the fun kid things downtown :)
Climbing in New Hampshire

Paddleboarding at my true Happy Place

A Weekend Getaway with My Mom

Chicago in the Summer

Rooftop Workouts
Rooftop Sunrises

More California Days
Chill Holiday Mondays
