Down by the Bays: 2017 in Review

Sunday, December 31, 2017

2017 in Review

Here we are at the end of 2017!

January 2017

Frozen all over Europe!

We celebrated 2017 with lots of fireworks
It snowed for the first time!
Danita and Fern came to visit us!
We traveled to Marburg, Rothenburg, Munich, Dachau Concentration Camp, Neuschwanstein Castle, Innsbruck, Zurich, Strasbourg and Heidelberg, finally showing them Muenster

February 2017

Nyhavn in Copenhagen. 14 February

We'd lived in Germany for six months!
We went to Copenhagen, Denmark during the semester break
We spent Valentine's Day in Copenhagen
Found out that Lindsay was pregnant (February 17)
Made a last minute trip to Cologne for Karneval

March 2017

Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. 26 March

Lindsay turned 28

We went to Cleveland for Chris and Megan's wedding
We lost our fourth baby

We went to Berlin for the Fulbright Conference

April 2017

Temple of Poseidon in Sounion, Greece. 1 April

Amsterdam, Netherlands. 18 April

We went to Greece with some of our Fulbright family!
We traveled back to Munich for a symposium
Fulbright family came to visit over Easter
We did Amsterdam in an afternoon!

May 2017

Prinzipalmarkt on our 7th anniversary. 22 May

Colosseum in Rome. 27 June

The first half of this month wasn't busy at all! Things got a little crazier starting on the 20th when we headed to Bavaria. Other than that, we hoped for warmer weather in Germany, and spent time there.
Carson went to Groningen in the Netherlands for a conference
Met up with some Fulbright Family in Würzburg where Carson ran a half marathon
We celebrated seven years of marriage
The Kings met us for a long weekend in Rome!

June 2017

Berliner Dom in Berlin, Germany. 11 June

June seemed to pass by quickly and felt busy, even though it really wasn't so much. We traveled for over a week, which took up some time, but we also stayed in Munster for quite some time.
Lindsay had surgery

My parents came to visit! We traveled to Munich, Neuschwanstein Castle, Berlin, Munster and Amsterdam with them.

July 2017

Hohensalzburg Fortress, Salzburg, Austria. 3 July.

Louvre Pyramids, Paris, France. 5 July.

Glencoe, Scottish Highlands. 12 July

Bluffton, South Carolina. 27 July

Family get together. 30 July

This was a busy month that passed so quickly from all the travel and activities
Carson attended a conference in Salzburg
Lindsay went to Paris with Jaime
We visited Edinburgh, Scotland for a conference

We marveled at how quickly a year had passed in Germany and moved back to the States
We spent a little over a week in Beaufort

August 2017