Looking Back and Looking Forward

2013 was a year of ups and downs for the (Not So) Idaho Readers. 

We celebrated our third anniversary.

We welcomed three new, sweet nieces into the family.

Isabelle Grace

Campbell Rue

Violet Reece

Our friendship circle also expanded with the addition of seven new little ones to love and play with (and then give back to their parents when they cry!). 

Leslie, I stole this picture from your Facebook page - thanks!

In 2013, we also learned that our family plan was not going to go as planned. We decided to move halfway across the world, to a huge city, in the Middle East, in order to finance our now changed family plans.

The Grand Mosque - on my daily commute. 

And while our experience teaching over here has been, shall we say, less than ideal, there have been some highlights. Like, the pool area at our apartment:

Or the fact that we've already been to two professional sporting events:

World Tennis Championships - Abu Dhabi

DP World Tour Championships - Dubai

But even though our pool is awesome and we have gotten to do some very new and exciting things while in Abu Dhabi, it still isn't home. That being said, we are going to try and make the best of our time here.

My goals for 2014 are pretty simple:

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And here's to hoping that 2014 is going to be full of new and happy adventures for the (Not So) Idaho Readers.

Happy 2014!

-F