Happy New Year everyone!! May 2013 bring you and yours, peace, love, happiness and good health! 

2012 was an amazing year for myself and other half cole, It brought many changes to our lives and was a year of growth and new oppetunities and new adventures. Some big life changing events.

Cole and I both had lazer eye surgery in april . That alone changed our lives . I went from being nearly blind and very poor vision to 20/20 in a month. Cole has 20/15 in 12 hours!!

Then  in the summer we picked  up our lives and re located to the interior . We moved from my home town where I was born and raised and were we met and started our lives together.  We now live in Kamloops Bc. Its about a 1.5 hour ferry ride and 4 hour drive or alittle more from victoria if you take the coquihalla high way. Cole was born and rasied in Clinton so it is alot closer to his family and friends. His brother and sister in law live a 15 min walk or 3 min drive away. And coles parents is about an hour and 45 min drive. 

I got a fabulous new job continuing my career as a License Practical Nurse in an assisted living factility and then picked up a second job in my neighborhood as a casual LPN in long term care. 

We bought our first home together in september and we renoed it together in october and moved in october 16th. 

In November my PKU Friend Amanda J and I began working together on a daily basis to gain control and compliance over our diet and lower our levels. I brought mine down to 2 and she brought hers down from 18 to 8. 

These are just a few of the highlights of 2012 , it was quiet and year for the first time that I can remember I sit here tonight on my graveyard shift facing 2013 not in debut, with no regrets, and happier with myself than I have been in a long time.  I am looking forward to the future with the love of my life,  cole and where our lives take us and what new adventures we par take in. 

As long as I remeber my motto, that every day is a new day, a fresh start and a chance to do better than I am confident 2013 will be just as much a sucess if not even better.  All I can hope for is to take one day at a time and make it count! 

again best wishes to you all and thank you for following my new PKU Blog. I look forward to getting to know you all in 2013 . 

xoox Amanda Cosburn