it's official.

we have lived in san antonio, texas for an entire year. 

it has been a challenging year, but we have soo many good times to look back on. i was ready for this adventure in a new state and ready to see why people like texas so much, and ready to do that with jon. it has taken us awhile, but we are starting to really dig it here. 

(i think the polarized sunglasses help. they make everything beautiful)

the day we got here with alex, our two dogs sadie and logan, and the kitty bandit. 

june 8, 2013. 

june 10, 2013. 

jon jumped right into school and has been going full time ever since. such a good student!

 june 13, 2013.

back when i thought it was fun and cute to have chickens living in the front room!

 july 4th, 2013.

in austin with jessie! she spent the summer in dallas and it was a treat to see a friendly face!

july 14th, 2014.

i mean..?

 july 19th, 2013.

right though? it is true what they say, the texas sky really is the biggest one i've seen. and i love it so much.

 july 20th, 2013.

fredricksburg with jon. eating chocolate, learning about their german history and taking in texas' history at the same time. (ah, that simple phrase of defiance just thrills me as a proud american)

 august 22, 2013. 

two skinnies training for a half marathon. pregnant me is lovvvving pre-pregnant me. get it gurl. 

 september 20, 2013.

i joined jon at UTSA for my final semester of school and was admittedly very confused with my california/texas mishmash of outfits. but my goodness are those boots comfortable. 

october 11th, 2013.

 yeah.

 october 12, 2013.

we fell in love again lots of times over this past year and i mean lots of times.

 october 13, 2013.

awww our babies at church. the 4/5 year olds which we moved up with in january to teach them as 5/6 year olds. they were so happy when we told them about the baby. it was easter and one little girl said "have a good easter! and have a good baby!"

 november 3, 2013.

we moved into the third floor at the house after completely and utterly renovating it. it needs work, but that flag though.

 november 6th, 2013.

new braunfels is right outside of san antonio and is a little german town. since this family loves germany, we always go to germanfests, wurstfests, bierfests, the works. when jon's dad and step mom were trying to recruit us to move to texas in august 2012, we went to a german festival where my FIL sang along to all of the songs and held up his drink as if it was a bier stein with all the other drunkards. jon sang along too and i think that was the moment i knew we wanted to move to texas although that feeling could have come a couple hours later when we were at the AT&T center watching the professional bull riders, but who knows.

 november 6, 2013.

this family doesn't go out a lot, but when they do go out…they go all out. fooooood. 

 november 17th, 2013.

ran our first half marathon. together but separate.

 december 7th, 2013.

ran our second half marathon, this time together the whole time and it was one of the funnest things we've done together.

 december 15, 2013.

visited the alamo quite a few times. although some of the details are still fuzzy and hard to remember, it is an amazing and spiritual place to be. 

 january 6, 2013.

bought a car! now it's safe to say that we sold my nissan and bought this toyota as baby prep. we can't wait to have a little toddler making a mess of our leather interior!

january 11, 2014.

got treated to a nice group meal from my place of employment and were really into being the sober ones.

 february 15th, 2014.

jon will kill me for posting this but it is just too lol. we are part of a group at the san antonio museum of art called young friends and we meet for art things and have a season pass at the museum. its alright, the museum itself is tiny. (especially compared to those in san diego and la, but we take what we can get) this night we went to a surprise party for a friend from work in a nice downtown loft and afterwards came to the art party. this is jon rocking out to the live music and making me laugh so much.

 march 5, 2014. 

heyyy we even got pregnant this year. maybeeee the most notable thing so far.

march 29th, 2014. 

we went to disneyworld!!! i need to write about it because it was the bomb.

 april 7th, 2014. 

saw our little baby for the first time and could see the tiny heart beating. while we were watching it, we saw it move (it looked more like a full body twitch) but its the cutest thing we've ever seen and it has made us laugh to imitate it ever since. 

april 27, 2014.

eeeeek my father and father in law got me a bow with arrows for my birthday!! it is from the 70's, has a 35lb draw and i'm proudly getting better. the other day i almost did a good job imitating katniss when we heard a bunny in the wilderness but i'm still quite stumbly loading the bow, hahaha. 

april 27, 2014.

enjoyed sadie and logan so much. every single day i'm grateful to have our dogs here. logan makes us so mad because he is OCD about biting/scratching/licking anywhere on his body but his puppy eyes and excitement to be outside in the morning makes up for all of it. and the way he puts his ears forward and cocks his head to the side when i go upstairs or leave the house without him makes my heart break in a good way. cutest dog ever. sadie has some quirks of her own, her incessant barking/whining at jonathan when we are in conversation and her ear piercing bark when the doorbell rings, but it's pretty endearing that she waits all day for jonathan to get home and interrupts our conversation because she just has so much to tell him about her day. we are both so happy to have them.

april 28th, 2014.

finally scratched old timey photo off of our bucket list on my birthday!! we went downtown to take them and it was so much fun! i was only 12 weeks along, but the corset was most uncomfortable. jon looked swoonie in his getup and it was all around fun.

may 11, 2014.

celebrated FOUR YEARS together!!!! i'm wearing my necklace from jonathan and we are posing by his clementine tree from me. more on that later.. :)

june 8, 2014.

cuterton almost didn't make an appearance, but here he is. we've enjoyed his company too and we are so glad that everything worked out so that he had a home while we were between homes and was able to move here with us. 

we are so happy together and are looking forward to another year here in san antone.

so far the things we love about it are:

the green scenery and blue sky.

family.

the bbq.

fredricksburg.

homegrown peaches.

the riverwalk.

a quote from our favorite song right now:

"It don't matter where we go, we'll never be alone. Anywhere beside you is a place that I'll call home."