Lacey in the City is beginning Year #4.

Shame on me.  I have been in such a focused mindset lately in getting done what I need to get done, that I forgot all about acknowledging that this blog has officially completed a full three years worth of existing.

What a rollercoaster life can be right?!  And I mean the fun kind of rollercoaster...like the one above, where you have to hold on to your hat, be grateful to have great friends by your side, + just keep on laughing through it.  (Okay, maybe you can have a good scream now and then, but generally, you laugh.  What's the point, if not?) 

I've definitely recorded some milestones here on Lacey in the City, and as I was thinking back on some of them, these were a handful of my favorites:

My first blog entry ever.

The signing of my first lease in New York City on January 1, 2009.

Central Park in the Springtime.

Taking sneaky phone photos of the eccentric citizens of New York.

A fabulous night out in Brooklyn.

Seeing "Mary Poppins" on Broadway with the fabulous KD, LB, + Nolan.

My first ever Fashion Week runway show was Milly(!!).

I visited my Kentucky family.

I went on a lot of road trips. Here's what I discovered.

I really absorbed all that I could of the city in Summer 2010.

I paid tribute to the coolest Dad in Town.

You read about the time I met Seal and I dished about my NY Roommate Sagas, part une and part deux.

I left Manhattan for Connecticut in June 2011.

I walked down Memory Lane (aka went to Chinatown) with my Momma + NC.

Then in true Lacey fashion, I fell in my living room and broke my elbow.  I am still working on a better story for that one.

Then I left Connecticut to return home to the sun and surf of Los Angeles in December 2011. 

Which means that this blog has literally seen me come full circle.

I began LITC as a 21-year-old headed to the big city of Manhattan, and I find myself today, three years later, an almost-25-year-old bidding farewell to the City that Never Sleeps and heading back to the City of Angels.  It's funny where life can take you in three years, right?! 

Cheers to another three years (and more) of fun here on Lacey in the City.  And thank you to all of you who have followed along with me on my journey thus far.

xoxo.