A Whole Years Worth Of Updates In One Post!

Hiatus Over. 

Picture overload commence. 

Here is what happened in 2014: 

November: 

Thanksgiving with some of the Bills 

BYU vs. Middle Tennessee Game. Go COUGS!

December: 

Boyd and his brother Dave went to Romania!

They almost didn't make him home. We had to re-schedule Micah's baptism. 

Their luggage got lost on the way home. 

I got to spend some time with my loves while Boyd was in Romania with Dave. 

Our car almost got smushed by a tree. 

Boyd drove this bad boy to a from work in -30 degree weather without heat in the car. He is a champ!

Merry Christmas

I won the lottery! Literally! (It was a gift) and we had no idea how to cash it in. haha

 Shaun and Nicolette came back up to Ohio!

Here is what happened in 2015:

January: 

Happy New Years!

Boyd was nervous for interviews (again) 

We love our Bertassos. Thanks for letting us stay with you. 

Winter was FREEEEEEZZZZING COLD! (When -10 feels warm....) 

 We made it to New York for Boyd to visit a program. 

February:  

I quit my job teaching pre-school. I had these kiddos for 4 years!

Valentine's Day Shenanigans 

May 2015: 

Allison turned 26

The Amazing Jenny Gildea took our family pics one last time... 

June: 

We roadtripped it to Utah, 

Where we went to Nicklecade (because I wanted to) 

Got to see Gning Gning

Took Painting classes MY FAVORITE!

Boyd did great for his first time. 

Hanging out with the Calls up a bear lake. 

Road trip back to Ohio with Lily Roo!

We bought a condo!

 With the help of Lily Roo.

She got to sit in on our closing! 

July: 

 Road trip back to Ohio......

Where we had to say goodbye to our friends. 

WE LOVE OUR OHIO FAMILY!

Boyd's brother Nathan got married on 7/11! We all celebrated by going to 7/11 and taking selfies!

Christian was a ROCK STAR and flew out to help us move! Thanks Christian!

We did our favorite things on our last day in Cleveland. 

August: 

We moved to CHICAGO! 

Boyd's First day of Residency! 

He looks so good! 

Katie & Michael came to visit!

September: 

Mom and Dad Bills came to visit. 

They are on their way to their Mission! They are serving a military mission in Washington State. 

We went to the BYU vs Michigan game. We lost but it was still fun to go to "the big house"

"Go (BYU) Blue" ha ha....

October: 

This is how we watch general conference.....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOYD!!!

Blessed

I'm finally breaking my 1 year hiatus. 

It's been quite the year to say the least. I've spent hours, days, months, literally a year thinking about what just happen to us. As much as I want to complain about the craptastic year we just went through there is only one word that can only describe my feelings about our year "off", BLESSED. 

We are so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family. We are so blessed to have the gospel and for the knowledge it provides us. Without these two things we literally would not have survived.  

Thank you to the people who were there for us. For the friends who let us stay at their house, eat their food and hang out with their teenage daughter for two weeks. For friends who "hired" Boyd to paint their house and over paid him times a hundred. Little do they know they helped us make it through another month where we just didn't know if we were going to. We are blessed to have family. For a mom who had a cow when she saw how skinny Boyd was and sent a Costco gift card over right away so we could eat. I was blessed to have a job that whole time where I could eat breakfast and lunch with the kiddos and not have to worry about our grocery bill for those two meals. We are so blessed to have friends and family who cried with us through our struggles and listened to our stupid stories like that one time Boyd told me we couldn't afford butter. The list goes on and on. 

We are blessed to have the Gospel. "Come what may and love it" I was especially blessed to have special angels sent to me to help lift me up when I needed it the most. When I thought that my Heavenly Father had abandoned me, I felt his love through these women. We sure did have a good time together. We are grateful for a church that teaches us to have "food storage" without it we would not have survived. 

We are so blessed.