Happy New Year's!

2012 was amazing.  Hands-down, it was the best year of my life.  Here's what happened:

January: I took this picture, which ended up winning 1st place in a photo contest in our neighborhood!  That's the first $100 I've made off photography!

February:

March:

April: only the most amazing night of my life :)  The guitarist from Abandon (my good friend's brother-in-law) took Megan and me backstage at the Newsboys concert to meet Anthem Lights, one of my favorite bands.  They were in the middle of their workout but they stopped to talk for a while, and they were so nice.  It.was.amazing.

May: I finished my 8th/10th grade school year!  (That sounds confusing.  Because it is.  It was 8th in terms of age, but I was doing 10th schoolwork.  Yeah, it's crazy.)  We went to Philadelphia and New York City.  Our NYC trip was interesting - it was cold and raining, which leads to wet shoes and soaked skinny jeans.  I was drying my shoes in a hand drier in a bathroom and wrapping my frozen feet in napkins at Olive Garden to keep warm and dry.  But it was fun nonetheless :)

June:

July: The month of amazing trips: 4th of July in Colorado with some of our closest friends and our cruise to Alaska with mom's side of the family (most amazing trip I've ever been on).  I also started playing bass in the church band on Sunday morning, which has been so fun :)

August: I started my 9th/11th school year. Aka, the hardest school year of my life. Yeah for physics and pre-cal :(

September: Trip with mom's family to a couple lake houses on Lake LBJ over Labor Day

October: I finished playing organized sports for probably the rest of my life.  I've played soccer since I was 3, but I'm done now.

November: I turned 15!  My family and friends threw me a surprise party, the day of my birthday was amazing, and I got a ton of Vera Bradley stuff in my pattern, so yeah, it was awesome :)

December: We had our annual Youth and Government (debate/ mock legislature) district conference.  Mason and I both got distinguished delegate :)  Mason and I also got to play in our town center one night and on Christmas Eve at our church with the worship team :)

What made your 2012 special?