School:
My senior year of college began with summer semester, which was probably my favorite semester because it was so fun to be on campus when it was quiet and laid back. I spent lots of time at the library, eating lunch, watching project runway online, and doing homework.
My last semester was crazy busy. I had tons of readings and papers for each class. I took five classes: History of Africa, Russian politics, Latin American anthropology, Latin American politics, and a senior research class that focused on the Arab Spring. It was fun to study different areas of the world and as always I was surprised at how much the topics overlapped. I graduated in December with a Bachelor of Science in political science, with a minor in history. It is so exciting to be done! I wanted to walk in the ceremony in May, but it was less than two weeks after Jocelyn was born and didn't work out.
Trevor had a good school year too. He did more secondary ed classes, did some clinical hours at a middle school, and had a pretty busy spring semester, plus had a new baby a week before finals! Luckily he worked with his teachers and was able to do some finals early, before baby was born. He only has one more school year now before he graduates!
We met one of my mission companions at Crown Burger when she was visiting from Canada! I think it was November or early December.
Holidays:
To celebrate most holidays and birthdays this last year we ate out at Panda Express. This was true of Trevor's birthday, my birthday, Valentines Day, baby's arrival celebration, and our anniversary. We love Panda!!! For Halloween we went to a USU basketball game. Thanksgiving we spent at the Brown's. And Christmas we went to Idaho Falls. New year's eve we were at the Brown's also.
Our anniversary this year was great! We spent it moving to our new apartment that we love. It's so great to have more space for our own stuff and for all of Jocelyn's stuff. As we were unpacking some boxes that afternoon I said to Trevor, there's a box in our room with "SURPRISE" written on it! He acted like he didn't know what it was of course, and let me open it later. It was an anniversary surprise for me! Panda Express gift card, Legend of Korra season 4, and treats for the evening. Baby even cooperated and slept long enough for us to hang out and enjoy it all. It was so much fun and a good surprise. I really hadn't been thinking about celebrating our anniversary, so I'm glad Trevor did think about it!
In February we went to Salt Lake for a weekend when Trevor had a school conference he had to go to. I spent the day shopping and got to go to Europa Market, which had Eastern European imports, including a lot of brands that were in croatia. It was so fun to see that familiar did and get some favorites!
Baby:
At the beginning of August we found out we were expecting a baby! I was so shocked because before I took the pregnancy test I was certain I was NOT pregnant, which just shows that it always happens when you least expect it. I had a great pregnancy, no morning sickness, only had heartburn like two or three times, no swelling up, I was tired but it was manageable, and I didn't get a ginormous belly until the very end. I actually was a little sad about that, I'd see ladies who weren't as far along as me and were bigger and I was a little jealous, which was weird! I wasn't expecting that. After I finished school I kept working part time until a few weeks before or due date and had time to just get everything ready for baby to come.
Jocelyn was born right on her due date too! It was a crazy day. I woke up around midnight Monday night/Tuesday morning and didn't sleep until after midnight Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. Even after she was born I couldn't believe that we had a baby!
The belly - April 21st
Our sweetie pie! She was so small and sweet (and still is :D)
That's the short version of our year, which is all I'll do since I keep putting it off anyway! It was a fantastic year!
This is by our new apartment- it says "Beware of dog" and then says "no pas" - pas in croatian means dog, so it says beware of dog and then no dog. Hahaha!
