The year 2016 is coming to a close and I didn’t make a sound the entire year. How very sad. As I look back at my work calendar this year I see everything that has happened. It’s been a year. I wouldn’t say it’s been especially fantastic, because to be honest it has sucked in a lot of ways. I always tend to say/think that Heavenly Father has given me so many blessings and a relatively simple personal life so that I can take care of everyone around me. I think if I had personal demons or health issues or any other problems that I wouldn’t be as good at being there for others. I can get a little selfish sometimes.
So. This year has been hard on the Sherwood Family, while my Roberts Fam has a rough 2015, the Sherwood’s took the cake this year. It has been one I mostly wish could’ve been glossed over, moved on from and forgotten. Life is hard, people.. REALLY HARD. I cried, my heart ached, I was sad, I prayed and all that was purely for everyone else around me. My life is easy, but I feel for my family, mostly my parents. Homies have it hard, but they carry on and make fun memories and try their darndest and I admire them.
January- March: We went up and played in the snow in Flagstaff, Wayward siblings who ran off for months, Dillon Roberts came home, and We went on a freakin AWESOME Caribbean cruise. I love vacationing, I live for vacationing. And we had SUCH a good time. Of all the places we spent time in, I would go back to Cozumel in a heartbeat, the place was clean, there was so many fun things we could’ve done, so I want to find an all-inclusive resort over there and really spend some time. #dreamy
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| I love my Baby B. |
April-June: I left husband for a weekend and went to 6 Flags with my momma, Ethen, and Dane we had the time of our lives and it was such a fun memory to be able to spend time hanging out with those boys. Then just as Cody is finishing up his Junior year of college, I decided it was time for us to start looking for a house!! So within 2 weeks I found my house, we moved out of our box that housed us for almost two years, put our crap in storage and moved in with Mike and Tammy the SAME DAY as Cass and Park. (May 1st & our house closed on June 24th) INSANE! We lived with the Roberts at the Palm Beach house for about 3.5 weeks before they moved to the Gilbert Temple house. It was the craziest time, but very good too. I built relationships with them that were better than before. My cute boyfriend and I celebrated 2 years of Marriage. Finally! On June 6th my last baby was adopted! Savannah Olive Sherwood became the last to enter the clan.
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| Dil's Homecoming talk |
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| Grandma Olive passed away, and we went to Trase's grave on her Funeral Day |
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| I took a photography class.. ha! |
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| Our "box". Almost 2 years in the cute little house. It held a lot of learning for us. |
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| All of us at Saturday's Warrior! |
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| Our beautiful table that we sanded, painted and restained! |
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| Kelsey came alone for fun one weekend and we made it a girl's night! July-September: Summer was crazy. It was filled with long days at work, followed by longs evenings at our house, followed by long drives back to the Roberts as we scraped popcorn ceiling, painted, and ripped out carpet, and cleaned and cleaned and cleaned. I seriously felt like our house would never finish being “upgraded” but a lot of help from the fam and friends on some EVEN LONGER Saturdays made all the difference and by July 20th we were all ready to move into our Happy little home. It’s so beautiful and I’m so proud of all the work and time we put into making it our own. |
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| Blurry, mom struggled at taking a decent pic. Pretty sure that's lex or rhett with the bunny ears. HA! |
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Funny story about this pic on the right. My mom made a bet with Ethen (who even knows what it was about) and he obviously lost and he had to go up to bad without his pants! I love that kid, he's such a good sport! |
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| i freakin love my parents. |
Cody started his senior year of college, and then I turned 23 and we went to Harry Potter world and got a year pass. (WE NEED TO GO AGAIN?MORE) we also found this bomb.com ramen place that we went to like 3 times. SO GOOD! I won tickets on the radio to the IHEARTRadio concert in Vegas. We drove up the day before and hit up the WICKED SPOON in the Cosmopolitan. Let me tell you, if I lived in Vegas, I would eat nowhere else. It was so good I could’ve died. I was in food heaven. (which is impressive bc I’m a foodie.) Then we hit the convert Saturday. In one word it was SICK. So many amazing artists and a lot of sun. my honey got so sunburned which led to us leaving early, which made me feel like an old person, but se la vie. It was still awesome.
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| had all the girls spend the night while cody went on a boys trip with Dillon Martin. |
October-Now: October was great, I got to go to Utah to spend some time with my Pooky and then see Victoria and stay with her and her “family”. It was pretty nice and they were the kindest, most sweet people, so accommodating and were such a fun family!
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| Random D-Backs game. and (per usual) we only went for the food... |
The next weekend we took the annual Roberts Halloween Disneyland trip and this time we got to have Te’ia and Camille and Malcolm with us. It was awesome. I’m inheriting some of the coolest people as family and I love them all dearly. It’s truly such a joy to be a part of that family.
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| went to the Smelser's Halloween party. (my calves are so enormous) |
November went quick, Dillon proposed and I get to have Te’ia as my sister for FOREVER! Victoria came home for Thanksgiving, that was joyous. So now we’re here in December. And I’m caught up. And already know that I will make writing a priority for 2017.
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| Daddy's Birthday |
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| Best family tradition EVER! |
A couple thoughts:
1. Family is forever, and my relationships and the joy they each bring me is something I am so blessed to take part in.
2. Baby Hunger is hitting me as the year is coming to a close, but not quite as hard as my need to travel and see more of this beautiful Earth.
3. I have the best husband in all the land and I love how similar we are and how much we enjoy each other’s company and how happy he truly makes me.
4. It’s about time for him to graduate though. It feels like I’ve been in school FOREVER! haha. Jk. I’m the worst.
5. There are a few goals I need to set for 2017. Some characteristic flaws of mine that DESPERATELY need to be worked on.
XO,
Mars
XO,
Mars