Happy New Year - Frohes Neues Jahr

Wow, it's 2013. I know I've been quiet on here... Sorry about that. I was just busy and one Friday passed, then another... and so on.

Life is still awesome.

So much has happened since October.... Here's a little review in picture:

Wow, schon ist es 2013. Ich weiß, es war etwas still hier auf meinem Blog... Es war so viel los und dann habe ich einen Freitag verpasst, dann den nächsten und so weiter.

Mein Leben ist immer noch großartig und mir geht es gut.

Hier ist eine Rückschau in Bildern:

I went to the Oktoberfest in Jacksonville, yes in my Dirndl. 

- Ich war bei einem Oktoberfest in Jacksonville in meinem Dirndl!

I carved my first pumpkin!  - Ich habe meinen ersten Kürbis geschnitzt. 

We went to a Halloween party. I made the puking pumpkin and fingers. - Wir waren auf einer Halloween Party. Mein Mitbringsel war der spukende Kürbis und die Würstchenfinger.

Shawn traveled through Iowa. - Shawn und ich sind durch Iowa durchgefahren.

We went to the Navy Pier in Chicago. - Wir waren in Chicago am Navy Pier.

And of course we saw the bean! - Und in Chicago haben wir auch am Cloud Gate (auch gerne The Bean = Die Bohne genannt).

On Thanksgiving I saw a cotton field. - An Thanksgiving habe ich ein Baumwollfeld gesehen. 

I went Black Friday shopping and got some awesome deals.  - Am Black Friday (Tag nach Thanksgiving) war ich einkaufen und habe einige Schnäppchen gefunden.

Shortly after going to Chicago, my husband got a 'timed' promotion. He is managing a property there while the manager is on maternity leave. Pretty awesome chance for him! So he's been going to Chicago on and off for a week. After he came back from the first trip, we went on a date:

Kurz nachdem wir aus Chicago zurückgekommen waren, hat mein Mann eine Beförderung bekommen und zwar für eine Stelle in Chicago. Es ist auf begrenzte Zeit, aber wirklich eine supergute Gelegenheit für ihn. Während die Managerin von dem Apartmentkomplex dort im Mutterschutz ist, ist er jetzt bis Ende Januar/Mitte Februar Manager dort und muss immer wieder nach Chicago für fünf Tage. Um das zu Feiern, waren wir auf einem Date:

And now Simone is here - FINALLY! - Und jetzt ist Simone zu Besuch - ENDLICH!

Christmas Eve - Heilig Abend

Christmas Day Morning! - Weihnachten!

Simone and I cooked Christmas Dinner! - Wir haben an Weihnachten gekocht.

Yummy - Lecker!

Then we went camping! - Dann waren wir campen!

I ended 2012 with a workout. - Am 31. war ich auch noch beim workout.

New Year's Eve - Silvester

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Five Reasons To Be Happy This Friday - Fünf Gründe, Diesen Freitag Glücklich Zu Sein

First of all, sorry for not writing last week. I was out of town for work, again, and didn't even have time to open my laptop for a minute.

Let's start with my happy reasons though and I'll tell you about my new job in reason #2.

Reason #1 I won $150 gift card for a Pinterest contest. Pretty cool, huh? It was through the company that manages the apartment complex that we live in. You had to pick one  of the themes and create a board with a minimum of five pins and one of them had to be a picture of oneself holding a sign saying 'I love Gables', that's the company. 

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Five Reasons To Be Happy This Friday - Fünf Gründe, Diesen Freitag Glücklich Zu Sein

Happy Friday!

This one will be a shorter post since I'm actually out of town right now. I'm in South Carolina for work, doing a promo for a travel agency. But that's a different story. I still wanted to post my five reasons to be happy.

Sunset here in Myrtle Beach, SC

Reason #1 Our anniversary was last Monday. We've been married one year. I posted about the wedding on Monday, if you missed it, click here. I'm so happy to be married to my husband for over a year and it's been wonderful!

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Happy Anniversary - Erster Hochzeitstag

Warning: Wedding Pictures Overload

♡ One year ♡ - Josh and I have been married one year, as of today!

(Don't worry, I'm not actually writing this during our anniversary; I wrote it last week - thanks to the awesome technology of scheduling posts.)

I can't believe it has been a year since our wedding! First, the year went by soooo slow because I had to wait on my visa for forever... or it seemed that way. And now that I've been here since mid-May, and time has been flying.

I'm sooo happy to be married to my best friend. And it has been a wonderful, adventure-filled, fun first year! I'm looking forward to many, many, many more!

Now, let's relive the wedding with some lots of pictures:

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