1 year ago today, Cole and I started fourth in a new chapter in our lives and into a new adventure. We relocated from my home town where I was born and Raised in Victoria BC to Kamloops BC.  We left behind many loved ones, my family and our wonderful friends. It was hard to leave but as I look back now a year later. I am so happy!

This move was really wonderful for us and just what we needed. A fresh start and a chance to live our lives they way they are ment to be.

I am so in love with my new life. I love our gorgeous home, I love coming home to it from my wonderful job where I have many wonderful work friends and some I have bonded with outside of work.  I love my residents and seeing them wherever I work. I feel great going to work and leaving work.

I love my 4 really great girl friends I have made up here. Sherry, Tiffany, Katie and Claudia.  I am so greatful to have them in my life. They are wonderful people who I enjoy spending time with. Each very kind and great people.

I love my neighbourhood, my community, my new town, all the things to do. I love how active I have become and how much fuller my life is. My health has come back to me and I am healing inside and out.

I love being closer to coles’ family , and spending more quality time with them.

I feel stronger, more confident, happier and I notice I am more relaxed, I find happiness in many more things and I laugh easier and harder.

But I am also content. I am content to be at home on my own, or to go out for a drive in my car and walk in one of our many parks. I am getting back into my own hobbies. I enjoy my photography, hiking, walking, swimming, yoga, going to the gym, meeting up with friends, camping, badminton and I have so many things I want to try! Like pottery !

My levels have gone from 11 to 1.5 in the last year. With an average of around 8. Though I have only lost 5 lbs since January I am working on my body and my fitness. I am learing about the balance between healthy clean organic eating , low protein foods, portion sizes, frequent small meals and activity.

I feel better about myself, though I still have a poor body image I can tell that my self confidence is higher.

I don’t feel weighed down and I have been living my life drama free. I stand taller and I feel freer.

I want to thank everyone who has been apart of our journey and our new lives. Our new friends , our families and our friends back home. Distance will never come between those who matter. Specially with facebook! LOL

Its been wonderful to have some of my good friends visit and I am looking forward to more visits over the summer and hopefully a trip back home to the island in September.

I am also very excited to finally have some of my family come and visit. To be part of this new life. To share with them our home, our lifes, to show them where we work and to share everything with them. In 4 days my sister arrives and I could not be happier. I am so excited to see her and have her here. It will be a short visit but one I have been waiting on all year and we have so many plans! I cant wait to show her everything!! and to spend time with her and hug her.

My family and my siblings are so important to me and it has been very hard not to be apart of their daily lives and see them whenever I want. It hurts me that my parents and my younger siblings have yet to come  to see us and our home but I am holding out hope that one day soon they will!

Its been a great journey and the adventure into new jobs and home ownership has been one of the best! Through the process relocating, the move its self, settling into a new routine, starting new jobs, making new friends,  of buying out first home, renovating, and all that it has entailed. Its been a heck of a ride!

So here we are a year later, blessed and happy. I wanted to take this time to celebrate and give recognition to our one year in kamloops.  A year ago I was apprehensive and worried if it would be stressful and hard. If it would draw cole and I closer or apart and if we where stong enough to make it work.  This past year has been so wonderful and busy, it has proven to me that we can make it through it all and it really has brought us closer together and I am so happy to be hear with cole.   The love of my life and my best friend! I am excited for the future and all the years ahead!