Guyyyyyyyys....2016 is over TOMORROW. I know they say that every year goes by faster as you get older, but how did this happen???

It's been an intense year for me. Most of that intensity has been great-phenomenal, really-but dang, what a roller coaster of emotions! I couldn't have imagined that I would feel like a totally person today than I did on January 1st. But I do. I am in the obvious ways-I have three new letters after my name that tell the world I'm a lawyer; I'm no longer a student, but rather a working professional with a full-time job.

But it's more than that. I've hit some of the highest highs and the lowest lows of my emotional range this year, and I've lived through it all. I've kind of thrived in spite of it all, actually. I survived the bar exam, a big move, my first four months of pet parenthood (which was a steep learning curve, let me say). I've had days where I thought I couldn't go on. But I did, and I'm proud of that.

Personally, professionally, 2016 has been one for the books.

And this blog! So much has happened with this blog! I started the year as kind of a no-name kid in the background of the Baltimore blogging scene who only knew one other Baltimore blogger and just admired the big players from afar. Now I'm in the fray and I actually get recognized in public (WHAT?! Minor celebrity moment here, y'all). But more importantly, I've made some amazing lady blogger friendships and met some incredible people who are not just people whose blogging expertise and style I admire, but who I love dearly as people.

So what all happened this year? Let's go back and hit the highlights!

In January, I did my first ever fashion panel as a blogger!! The panel is also where I started my friendships with one of my dearest friends, Taliah of Fashion Was Here, and with a woman I'd admired from afar and became my friend, Jenn of Comme Coco.

I also acquired my first DSLR camera, which totally changed the course of my photography, and took my first blog head shots!

Personally, I was heading back into my last semester of law school ever, which was terrifying the heck out of me at the time! We also had a GIANT snowstorm that stopped up the whole city for days and basically buried my car (my first adult blizzard, which was pretty cool and also scary lol).



In February, I did my first-ever collaboration post with ThredUP, which was huge!! I also shot for the first time with Taliah, yielding the photos above, and eventually, this shot landing in a magazine (more on that later)!