2012 and a Big Thank You!

I wish i could hug you all but instead here's a cute picture of me hugging a puppy on a beach in Ireland (a candid picture my dad took) yes I'm aware it looks like I'm pulling a duck face...but I was talking to the puppy

Hey Everyone!

2012 has been such a great year for me filled with so many memories and new beginnings. If you've followed my blog for a while when I first started in the summer, you'll know I spent my entire summer in Ireland with my dad whom I haven't seen or been able to talk to due to my parent's divorce. I spent my 18th birthday with him, and my younger brother joined us halfway through the summer, and he now lives with my dad in Europe. (my dad isn't Irish by the way, he was just living there for a while)

I turned 18, graduated high school, started University, finished my first set of classes there, and so many more milestones were made but I won't bore you to death with all of them :)

But most of all I'm so appreciative to people who follow me or take the time to read my posts (but if you just read them and don't follow me...you really should :D) And I think you deserve to hear bits and pieces about my life.

I started my little blog in my little corner of the internet...and didn't have any followers for like a month so I was basically writing to myself (not that I'm by any means a big or established blog...LOL) but knowing people read my posts, listen to them, or gain help or information from them in any way brings me great joy and warms my heart.

I found that I really love writing this blog and it calms me to write a post and then hit publish...ohhh the feeling of accomplishment. 

so again THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART YOU MAKE ME WANT TO SKIP WITH JOY LIKE THIS PICTURE BELOW

this is my little brother and me in Ireland on a freezing cold beach, I love him to death and his little face deserves to be seen. when I told him we should skip he was the first to start- he gets me

hopefully 2013 will bring good fortune to everyone, and my personal resolution is to blog much more often now that I'm really into the swing of blogging. I'll try not to disappoint!

what are your New Year's resolutions? I really want to know! I'm super nosey!

BUT BIG HUGS FROM ME TO YOU I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH YOU MEAN THE WORLD TO ME