Hunki Dori Yuri: fist of 2013.....terrible

Hello, I am feeling how terrible I am at doing this....blog thing.......

let me try again. This time with LOTS of pictures.....

Work has been busy, like always. But I have the support of my mom, dad, brother and my amazing husband, and friends so that I can take off from time to time.

I was talking to a friend of mine, and realizing that with the little time I have off, I have been doing LOTS, and have been traveling tonz.

Lets start with January.

Of course coming back from the freezing land of Utah that I love so much. This trip meant a LOT to me. Introducing my husband to my Utah family, and forced to say goodbye to my big sister. She told me to be prepared that this was the last time I will see her, but how does anyone prepare for that??

I know I still am not ready to accept this. perhaps never will.

Great people, great food, and so much love.

February was overall, a mess. Lets skip this month.

March, we went to Korea to see our good friend, Saeromi. Beautiful as always :) We celebrated Yushi's birthday.

April, Dad had his heart surgery. Us, having NO medical knowledge whatsoever, were scared out of our pant when the doctor said he was going to have to stop dad's heart during surgery...

he was going to be in the hospital for over 2 weeks, but ended up getting out in a week. I tell ya, the hospital food must have been really bad for him to cut his days off short like that!

It didn't take him too long to start driving everybody crazy again at the office :)

May, Trip to Tateyama. It was a nice quiet trip with pretty much no plans. We just drove along the country side and went in some onsen. Totally relaxing..

June, I went on a business trip to Hiroshima for about a week. This year, I have been going to department stores to sell our bags myself. This is one of my ways to break rutine, and get to know how other stores operate. Being on my own for a weeks forces you to make new friends. It's fun and exhausting at the same time :)

July, We had a summer festival of ourselves in this shopping area our shop is in. I was in charge of the whole thing, so it was VERY VERY VERY exhausting, but it was fun ;)
We all busted out our Yukata's and it was amazing ;)

August, I got to get together with my highschool friends to see our Japanese teacher. She was fighting cancer, and we all thought we could cheer her up :) RIP Mr. Takagishi, and cancer, I hate you.

September, I went to Osaka, and China on business trips. China was with my boss, and his customer, so it was purely business. Good food tho.

And for our anniversary, we went to the same restaurant he proposed. we went there last year too.