2016

Goodbye 2016, Hello 2017! The start of the new year is always an exciting time, as it feels like the beginning of a fresh start. I do love looking back at what we’ve accomplished, the highs and the lows and the changes that happened over the previous year. This was a big year for us personally, as we bought our first house and moved cross-country. We had amazing opportunities to travel new places for the first time, like Ireland, Dominican Republic and Iceland and re-visit other favorites, like Italy, England and France. We’ve added new features like GMG Now, but were delayed with many others, which can be a blessing and a curse. Every day there is work that goes on behind the scenes that never makes the light of day because it’s a slow process to roll out new things. Instead of getting frustrated, we remind ourselves that life is a marathon, not a race, and it’s better to take things slowly and do them right. Most of all though, I have so enjoyed getting to know many of you on a more personal level. I opened up a few times with our new Discussions posts and hope to do lots more this year, too. It had been years since we posted our last video, but we finally broke that down streak with our Iceland Vlog and hope to do more of those this year, too. As always, I love hearing what you’re enjoying, what you’re connecting with or what’s missing. You guys are the reason behind all of this and without you, we wouldn’t be here. I’m so appreciative to have such a wonderful, loving and supportive community of people here and hope that we can all inspire each other over this next year to be the best we possibly can. And here is a look at some of my favorite moments from each month in 2016…

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