2024

Happy End of 2024! 

I have looked at many "just get this year over with posts" on social media. Believe me, I get it. It has been a lot. 

But.....this morning I decided to make a list of the good things that my life brought during 2024. The things I want to remember about it. Things to be thankful for instead of leaving the year with angst. 

I'm sharing my list, in hope that you too, will make a list of the good things in the year. Any little thing will be good. That one coffee date with good friends. That mountain trip with your best friend. The snail mail that comes to your post office box and surprises you with love you forgot you had. 

Here's my list. And following are pictures. Not professional photos. My year of good memory photos. Just a documentation of 2024. Enjoy. 

1. Doing an excellent job as Program Manager and Event Coordinator at the Museum.
2. Moving back to Colorado (favorite event, I must say!)
3. Doing fun portrait sessions (still my favorite kind of work)
4. Battling and beating multiple illnesses-including diabetes!
5. Losing some weight and not killing myself doing it.
6. Getting my violin fixed--and playing it.
7. Learning to paint. Not GREAT yet, but painting!
8. Tackling really, really hard things.
9. Making mentally healthier decisions about my future. After all, its MY future. 
10. Finishing the first 12 books in the Longmire series by Craig Johnson. 

There you have it. Happy New Year! Much, MUCH love!

Belle. January 2024.

February 2024.

 

March 2024. Setting up for the Women's Small Business Owners Tea 
at the museum in honor of Women's History Month. 

April outings. Peaceful places. 2024. 

Music Class at the Museum. May 2024.

Made a special trip to Kemmerer with my mom to see
the original JC Penney store.
She has fond memories of her mother working there. June 2024.

4th of July 2024 meant a visit from part of my family! 
They were my only visitors to Wyoming while living there three years.
I was one happy Mum/Grohm!

PhiFerFest, one of the many events I was responsible for at the Museum. August 2024. 

   

Made the big decision to move back to Colorado where I belong!
Happy September, 2024.

Moving back meant learning to paint. Which I am now very much loving.
My daughter, Mandy, such a good teacher! We all painted pumpkins for fall. I painted Charlie Brown on Snoopy's dog house. I'm pretty proud of this one! October 2024.

November 2024 gave us one good snow (the only one so far this winter!) 

and it was enough to build a snowman. 

                            

December 2024 brought another move, another adventure. 

                      Still not in a permanent place. But looking forward to what 2025 will bring us!