1 Second Everyday Video - 2018

They everyone, my 1 second everyday video from 2018 is live. It was a great year and I think this is a really fun way to document the years. However, I am not sure if I am going to continue this year. I love video but I like creating videos with music and such. I think that when I have children I will definitely want to start 1SE again because seeing a child grow from 0-365 days all within like 6 minutes would be really cool. Although I have been doing it for the last like 3 years and I am not sure if I can give it up that easily haha.
love, Carlee

A look back at 2018

Hi all, a new year is upon us. I don't know why but usually instead of feeling excitement and like anything is possible I just feel overwhelm in the new year. But it has been going good so far and I wanted to take a minute to recap 2018 month by month and also my goals for 2018 which are at the end of the post. I will my new goals for 2018 later this week! 

January- One of my really good friends from home (she was a bridesmaid at my wedding) came to visit she was in Germany and took a short trip down to see us! I went to Kraków, Poland and Auschwitz concentration camp with a different friend. I also started BBG and did 3 full rounds in 2018. I am gonna get back into it. I really loved it. And it also snowed in Naples!

February- Clark and I went to Barcelona for a long weekend (had some of the best cinnamon rolls) and hit up a another country Andorra. We also did a Whole30. 

March- I went to Brugge Belgium with a good friend and her daughter. Clark and I went to the Vatican to witness Palm Sunday with Pope Francis.

April- Clark and I took the train to Florence and then out to Pisa and Cinque Terre for a really long weekend! We had lots of fun with friends at a rooftop gathering and an 80s party. Also, poppies bloomed everywhere.

May- I had a long stop over on my way to the USA to visit family. I stayed for 3 weeks and got to watch my little bros play in the baseball state championship. I also got to see Taylor Swift on her Reputation tour in Seattle and it was amazing!

June- was back in Italy eating good Italian food. Clark and I went to Portugal and southern Spain for a week and even hit up Gibraltar! At the end of June my friend and I flew to North Italy and explored the Dolomites, Lake Siremone, Verona, and Venice. We also had a boat day with our friends on the Amalfi Coast. 

July- clark and I went to Puglia Italy for a long weekend. We ate in a cave (the most expensive meal of our lives) and we jumped into caves as well! We saw Post Malone in concert with some friends.  And I took myself on a road trip to San Marino for a few days.

August- celebrated Knox’s 5th birthday! I traveled solo to Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia. Explored naples with a friend.

September- had a couple of beach days. And I traveled solo to Nice France and Monaco.

October- my friend and I went to Paris France and it was amazing the second time too. Clark and I went to Capri, Italy on a day tour. And we had an epic Halloween costume as usual ;).

November- clark and I went to our first Napoli football (soccer ⚽️) game. We had some of the best pizza in the world at Pepe in Grani and Gino Sorbillos. And then we traveled to Morocco for 8 days and had one of the best trips ever!

December- I got to see a good friend that was visiting from Hawaii. We went to Berlin Germany and took our friends to another Napoli soccer game. And ended the year with our friends over looking the Mediterranean Sea in Pozzuoli watching fireworks and drinking champagne.

Goals revisited:

1. Read 5 books and add to my book collection. I know 5 books is so weak but I haven't read a whole book in forever so reading 5 seems like a do-able goal. Yes.. I read 6 books this year: 
The Couple Next Door
Smart Couples Finish Rich
Girls and Sex
The Green Mile 
I almost forgot about you 
Wild 

2. Go on 10 trips this year. 8 small 3-4 day trips and 2 big 7-10 day trips (not including back to USA)

Yes:

Krakow, Poland- 3 days

Barcelona/Andorra - 4 days

Brugge, Belgium - 4 days

Florence & Cinque Terre Italy - 4 days

Portugal/Spain/Gibraltar - 8 days

Venice, Verona, Lake Garda - 4 days

Puglia, Italy - 4 days

San Marino - 3 days 

Finland and Estonia - 5 days 

Nice, France and Monaco - 3 days 

Paris, France- 3 days 

Morocco- 8 days 

Berlin, Germany- 3 days 

3. Finish 2018 with a 3.5+ GPA in all my college classes. (YES!)

4. Go back to USA and visit family. Check

5. Go to one concert. Check (Two: Taylor Swift and Post Malone)

6. Turn hangers around in closet and only turn them back around when I have worn that item of clothing. At the end of the year the hangers still not turned around: donate those clothes. (YES)

7. Print more physical photos! No but I have a whole folder on my computer of just photos to print. 

8. Continue recording 1 Second Everyday. Check! 

9. Keep up with house cleaning better: i.e. washing sheets more often, vacuum more, mow lawn more regularly, etc. Still working on this. I did wash our bedsheets more often. 

10. Save money. Yes. We started putting more in our retirement account every month. 

11. Visit 6 new countries. (Kind of in line with the trips goal but want to make sure I go to new countries.) Portugal, Spain, San Marino, Monaco, Morocco, Finland, Estonia. 

12. Go on another solo Europe trip. Yes: I went to Helsinki, Finland. Tallinn, Estonia. San Marino. And Nice, France by myself. 

13. Take photos and share my living room makeover. I didn't do this. 

1 Second Everyday 2017 : video

Hey all!
I just finished getting my 1 Second Everyday video mashed and uploaded and I thought I would share it. So many people loved seeing it last year and this year was just as great. I shared highlights of the year in my last post but some things that I forgot to mention and I remembered because of this video:
-My families dog passed away in July and it was really fun to get it see him again in this video. -Getting to watch my little brothers play high school sports -Walking, driving, etc for the first time since I broke my leg in November 2016.  -All the trips we took -The massive heat wave we had at the end of July in Italy. Clark and I basically spent all day in a little kiddie pool.  -Making friends with our neighbors and their two young daughters just loved Knox.  -The concerts we saw. 
So many good memories and 1 whole year in just 6 minutes. Crazy.  love, Carlee

Year in review: 2017

January
- Clark returned home to Naples, Italy and I stayed in Washington State recovering from my broken leg.

-My brother got married and I was a bridesmaid in the wedding in Seattle.

February
-I celebrated my 25th birthday.

-I walked for the first time in 14 weeks all by myself!

March
-I finally launched my own ecommerce site littlesloth.com which in July I realized wasn't bringing in the profit to make it worth it as this point.

-I drove for the first time on my own since I broke my leg about 4 months.

-I returned to Naples, Italy!

-We bought a king bed.

April
-Explored around Naples, Italy a lot.

-I attended bookclub and made new friends.

May
-Saw 3OH!3 in concert on base!

-Traveled to Greece. Santorini, Athens, and Sparta

-Continued to do PT twice a week.

June

-My family came to visit for 2 weeks. We went all around Naples and to Rome and Pompeii and Capri and my little brother and I went to Amsterdam

-We went to our third military ball

July

-Celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary

-Traveled to Poland, Lithuania and Latvia!

-We ate pig snout, skin, and tongue with our landlords. 

August
-We celebrated Knox's 4th birthday. 28 in dog years people. Crazy how we just got him 4 years ago and he is already older than both Clark and I ;)

-Clark traveled to USA for ALC for 6 weeks.

-I got my hair cut for the first time in about 1.5 years! Yeah.... haha

-I got accepted into an online bachelors degree program from the University of Washington.

September
-I started said college at UW again after taking 4 years off.

-I took my real first solo trip ever to Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmo, Sweden and it was wonderful. Although there are definitely pros to traveling with someone. But it felt good to be able to have a good time and enjoy myself all by myself.

October
-We went boating on the Mediterranean because somehow it was still hot enough to swim! We also visited the beautiful island of Procida off the Naples coast.

-Clark and I visited France for the first time. We saw some of the Normandy Coast, Disneyland Paris, and of course Paris.

-We won best family costume at Clark's work's Halloween contest.

-Clark did a 14.5 mile Spartan race in southern Italy and did really awesome.

November
-I remembered one year of my falling accident where I broke my leg.

-We saw Old Dominion in concert front and center and got their autographs and a photo with them!

-Traveled to Bucharest, Romania and Bran & Peles Castle in the Romanian countryside.

December

- We took a trip to Salerno Lights with Clark's work.

-We did a road trip to Tuscany Italy for the first time since living here in Italy and visited the most amazing hot springs.

-Took a short trip to Prague, Czechia and Saxony, Germany for the Christmas markets!

-I finished my first quarter back at UW with a 3.9!

-Clark got his 3rd tattoo, a shark jaw on this elbow.

Thoughts
-While this year was tougher than my Instagram or blog would lead you to believe it still has been a good year. 

-For the first three months of the year I couldn't even walk on my two feet. In November 2016 I broke my leg bad. It still hurts every single day. 

-But I think it's a good thing we are stationed in Europe because I still want to travel a ton so even though my leg hurts (somedays worse than other) I still walk and exercise and explore because I don't want to miss out on this opportunity. 

-I think if I had broken my leg while in the states I would have gone back to my parents house for longer and been kind of a couch potato and gotten really discouraged. 

-I also started college again back at the University of Washington doing an online bachelors degree program. So cool that I can live in Italy and still go to my dream school. I started in Fall 2017 and ended the quarter with a 3.92 gpa, and the next quarter starts in 2 days!! 

-We have made so many friends while being stationed here. Probably the most friends so far at one new location. 


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