five years in photos!

Well it's been almost five years since I last blogged and thought I would pick it up again. A few updates since December of 2010:

• I graduated from the University of Iowa on May 14, 2011.
  
• I moved to Chicagoland to take an internship at United Airlines in July of 2011. 
  
• I started attending Bloomingdale Alliance Church and was pretty involved (and met Alberto there). 
  
• With my United flying benefits I visited  many different places. (here in Puerto Rico)
  
• Alberto and I started dating on 8.8.12. He moved to Holland, MI on 8.25.12 to begin his Master of Divinity at Western Theological Seminary. 
  
• We would visit each other often and he would come home on breaks from school. 
  
• He proposed on 8.8.13 (see full story at http://alandajwedding.wix.com/love). 
  
• The internship turned into a full time job and I worked at United until September of 2013 when I decided to move to Michigan to be closer to Alberto while wedding planning.  
  
• I started working at a non-profit in West Michigan called Ready for School as an administrative assistant. 
  
• Alberto and I were married on April 5, 2014. 
  
• I stopped working at Ready for School in August of 2014 and started working at Fellowship Reformed Church of Holland as their office manager and director of communications.
• For Christmas, we picked up this adorable kitty. His name is Padfoot. 
  
• Here is our first year of marriage in a collage. 
  
• We traveled to Peru in May 2015 to see Alberto's family and for Alberto to return for the first time in 14 years. 
  
• We moved from our first married home, the Red Bricks, to Zeeland, Michigan in July of 2015. 
  
• Alberto started his last semester of seminary in September.
• In October, we announced that we are pregnant and due April 12, 2016. 
  
• And that's where this story picks up...