Hello 2014! I am happy to see you! 2013 was not my favorite year, so I’m not too sad to see it go. While we had a lot of really incredible experiences and learned a lot, 2013 was a bit of a sad year for the Allens. Neither Alex or I have ever been much …
Category Archives: Life
Goodbye 2013…
2013 has been a year of joy, anticipation, tears, exploration, loss, new friendships, travel, happiness, a newfound love of wine, laughter, dreams for the future and enjoyment. We said some goodbyes and introduced ourselves to new people, new experiences and new jobs. We learned a lot about life, loss and love this year. I think …
Christmas in Minnesota
This year we braved the bitter cold and headed east to spend Christmas with my family in Minnesota. Our trip began on Monday morning with a journey up to my family’s cabin on Lake Shamineau for a quick 24-hour stint. It was very, very cold for our first couple of days, but that didn’t stop …
Early Morning Walks
One of my favorite parts of the day is when we take Jackson for his morning walk. We generally take Jackson for three walks a day, but the morning walks are the best. It’s so calm and quiet in our neighborhood at 6:30 a.m., but the best part is seeing the sunrise. When we start …
Christmas Time
Last weekend we went on a quest for the perfect Christmas tree. We set out to a local tree farm to cut down our tree this year, as we had done the only other time we had gotten a tree together. The tree farm we went to ended up cutting down all of their fully …
Big Changes for the Allens
We’ve got some major changes taking place in our little lives right now! Exciting times for the Allens 🙂 Alex recently accepted a new position within his company that will move him to a new team and will relocate his office to the city of Seattle {in a really awesome neighborhood!} instead of a nearby …
5 Years Ago…
This evening while Alex and I were eating dinner we somehow got on the subject of what we think our lives will be like in 5 years. That quickly turned into a discussion about how far we have come over the last 5 years. Let’s take a trip down memory lane! 5 years ago we were …
Our Snow Dog
I haven’t written a post about Jackson for a while, so here’s an update on our little pooch. Jackson is 8 and a half months old now. He weighs around 65ish pounds – it’s gotten kind of tough to weigh him, so that doesn’t happen very often! I’m guessing he’ll max out at 75 pounds …
Winter Photo Shoot
A big thank you to Alina and Alberto for humoring me and taking some awesome photos of us while we were in snowy Breckenridge last week. I have been thinking for the last few months that Alex and I don’t have very many nice, recent photos of us, aside from our wedding pictures. We never …
Thanksgiving in Breckenridge
One of the perks of having family scattered across the country is that sometimes you get to pick a random place in the middle to meet for holidays. This year, our “central” Thanksgiving location happened to be Breckenridge, Colorado. It has been really fun to watch Alex’s family get into skiing more and more each …