First off, we're excited to have arrived at this point!

At the time of this writing, it will be one year in our lovely home!!

It has been quite the journey, here's a short recap to get you up to speed:

Steph moved in--bringing a 5 year old, 101 lb. German Shepherd, named Sparty; we painted a kid's room and invited a roommate of whom I did my first Spartan Race (she also loves photography and works with Steph); Steph's dad and his company took out the overgrown bushes around the house; I was out of town 2 times to Iowa, Wisconsin before the end of the year; Steph and I escaped the Chicago winter to San Diego to see my new nephew and niece, Lani and Lincoln; we celebrated our first birthdays in the house, along with Friends-giving and Christmas; I went on a trip back to where my mother's family is, in Taiwan; we adopted another re-rescue, a 2 year old, 40 lb. American BullBoxer, named Neela; Steph completed her first Spartan Race in June of this year; and now that the weather is nice, I've returned to the yard to design the rest of our landscape!

We'll definitely be detailing all of this over the course of our blog, but that's a brief overview to get started!

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