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2018 was filled with lots of love, happiness, and craziness. So many memories and fun things we did so I want to take a moment and look back on every month and write down something I did! And these might be some little things, but they’re good memories to look back on because I have a hard time remembering stuff! ❤

January:

I rang in the new year as an engaged lady
We closed on our new home
Officially started buying renovation supplies for the house
Started my last semester of college
Tore down a wall in our house (for the first time) and it was super fun
Made a famous soup recipe from The Spaghetti Factory and it was 🔥
Started officially taking my blog seriously and committing time to it (I started in December of 2017, but just created one)
Got my bridal shower invitations made, printed out, and sent out to people

February:

Bought a really cute pink purse combo (huge step because I only buy black purses so having a different color was new to me)
Saw Aleksandra Prijovic live in concert
Struggled with my finance classes (lol)
Booked my last appointment to take my braces off
Took my niece and nephew to Sky Zone and went to eat after – my nephew drank soda and was so hyper
Completed the tiles in the bathroom
Talked about our wedding and looked for wedding venues
Moved the gym from his parents basement into our garage

March:

Took our niece to the movies to watch Peter Rabbit (such a good movie)
Painted our house
Put a new tub, toilet, and sink in our bathrooms
Someone stole our AC system outside at our new house (assholes)
Father in law got the kids new bunnies (we made sure to not attach ourselves to them otherwise we would take them home lol)
Added the flooring into our house
Got my braces off!!!!!
My dad left his power tool in one of the houses he sold so he was sad until they let him get it back lol
Went to Chicago with Ado and Nejla for a weekend (end of March, beginning of April)
- They took us to a place called Steak 52 I think and it was super expensive but such a cool experience
- Got drunk from a fish bowl at Sugar Factory
- Visited the Nutella Factory in Chicago for the first time
- Had a mimosa for brunch for the first time

April:

Tore all the walls off in the basement
Made bosnian bread for the first time in a long time and it was delicious
Mirhad fell down the stairs in his basement and now has a huge scar on leg (lmao)
Started looking at furniture for our house
Had Husko’s chili for the first time (the best)
Made my party favors for the bridal shower and other decorations
Passed my second kidney stone – worst pain ever
Looked for my graduation outfit
Got my makeup done by my bff for my bridal shower
Had my bridal shower!!
Elma bought a snapchat geo filter made just for my shower ❤
Opened up gifts at home with the families instead of at the shower, it was more fun this way and my nephew had a blast trying to open all of the gifts before me
Put in our kitchen cabinets
Sanela’s fam bought us a TV
We picked the granite top for the kitchen
Dad installed a new door, but had to knocked down some of the wall to do it
Furnished our living room
Bought a bed set
Planted my first flowers 🌷

May:

Searched for my Mosque wedding dress
Entered my last month of college
Had my graduation party (earlier bc we wanted to also celebrate my dads and sister birthdays)
Mirhad went to Boston for a couple of days
Went bike riding in Forest Park
Granite top was added to our kitchen
Ordered a graduation cap topper from Etsy and got it in the mail right before graduation
Got our kitchen completed including the appliances
Graduated college!!!
Got married a couple days later ❤
Mirhad walked the stage at his graduation, but actually just now graduated a couple days ago
My niece graduated pre-school, had a mini graduation
Went to Colorado with Mirhad, Ermin, Sanela, and Anel and had lots of fun
Mirhad had his eye surgery

June:

We bought a puppy!
My sister went to a college prep camp for 2 weeks
We got a dining room set finally
Mirhad and Omer killed a wasps nest by our door
Celebrated our first Bajram as a married couple
Mirhad drove 4 hours to pick up our puppy
Had lots of fun, snuggles, and struggles with our pup and ended up having to give him away 2 weeks later
I started my new job
Went to a family picnic in St. James and fished

July:

Mirhad was trimming the bushes in front of our house and accidentally trimmed the extension cord as well
Celebrated 4th of July in the park we’ve been going to for 3 years now
Went canoeing in Forest Park

August:

Celebrated my birthday and went home earlier from work
Went to Dallas, TX for my birthday weekend
Tried Texas BBQ for the first time
Went swimming on a rooftop pool
Sat in a Tesla for the first time
Made my fall wreath
Went to a Card’s game
Made a coffee bar
Surprised my nephew with a birthday cupcake and a mini trampoline

September:

Attended one of my best friends brothers wedding
Chilled on a hammock with Mirhad and ate fruit
Ate a spongebob ice cream
Attended another friends wedding
Went on our trip to Seattle, San Fran, Yosemite, and Vegas
Celebrated Mirhad’s birthday in the West Coast

October:

Decorated pumpkins and put them in front of the house
Got a patio set
Took some photos in a pumpkin patch
Tried a pumpkin spiced latte for the first time ever
Watched our friends get engaged
Surprised Zana with a baby shower
Searched for fall leaves in every park and took lots of pics
Had a picnic in Forest Park

November:

Put up my Christmas tree
Had our first sleepover with my niece and nephew
Dyed my hair dark brown
Heard a car crash into the river by our house (scary)
Parked our car in the garage for the first time (after it was all cleaned out)
First snow at this house
Had Friendsgiving at our friends house
Got this super cute purse from my hubs

December:

Celebrated my nieces 6th birthday
Got to meet baby Adnan
Got Mirhad Airpods for his New Years present
2 of my bff’s graduated college
Went to Chicago for a weekend to see the lights
Finished wrapping all presents and put them under the tree

And now as this year is about to wrap up, I wish everyone a very happy and safe New Years! Hoping for lots of happiness, love, and adventures in 2019! ❤

Hello hello!

Continuing on from my previous blog post, we woke up super early to go catch our flight to SFO. It was a short flight (yay) and the most craziest thing happened before we tried to land. So from the start, they were saying the plane that was supposed to take us to SFO was running late due to weather conditions back in SFO. I was worried right away about how this flight would be and it really wasn’t all bad until we were about to land. So all of a sudden it got super cloudy and foggy for a good 5-10 min. You could see the mountains and then a layer of clouds. All of a sudden after a couple of minutes of traveling through these clouds, we just see the ocean lol. It was a little bit scary and then we landed 5 seconds later! Anyways, finally in SFO and it’s SUPER cloudy. We had to go find the place to pick up our rental car and then we’d be on our way.

The first stop we made was to In n’ Out of course, it was soooooo good. We’ve tried it before and the mistake we always made was adding animal sauce or whatever it was and it didn’t taste good. But this time we just got regular burgers and fries and it was delish!

After we ate, we found out that they didn’t even clean our rental car, it was so filthy in the back so we went and returned it. They gave us a different better car and then we were on our way to go see the Golden Gate Bridge! It took maybe 30 min to drive there from the airport which wasn’t too bad, but we were trying to avoid those traffic times. The bridge was beautiful and the scenery surrounding it was so nice, but it was sooooo windy and cold! You could barely keep your eyes open for a picture!

After taking some pictures, we started driving towards one of our friends houses since we agreed to stay at their place for the night. It was about an hour away and we went through a lot of hills. It was a cool drive over there! When we arrived, their dog was waiting to greet us and ran back inside so we could meet her in there. She was so shy in the beginning, but got so comfortable with us that she was sad to see us go! Our friend Elvira got off work around 6 so we chilled with her brother Eldar until she came home. After that, we just went to drive around and explore downtown and saw some cool places. We got to see that cool street that’s super curvy, it was at night, but it was still awesome. We also went somewhere to a very high hill, but it was so foggy you couldn’t see anything.