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Posted on Dec 31, 2009 under General, Holidays |
It’s really hard to believe that we’re about to enter 2010. It seems like yesterday everyone was flipping out about Y2K and the world was going to end. I feel like this past decade has brought about more significant life changes than probably will ever happen to me again. Perhaps I’m wrong…ask me in another 10 years 
So I thought I would do a review of the last decade and reflect on how far we’ve come.
2000- I was a freshman in high school. I can’t remember anything big that happened that year. But I know I spent the night at Virginia Hines’ house ringing in the new year with a bunch of girlfriends and I’m pretty sure we watched Spice World a few times while playing the BS card game for seven hours.
2001- I met my husband to be. He was the student assistant for our all-girls choir. What a dream job for him. I also went to Washington D.C. and saw George W. Bush inaugurated for the first time.
2002- I was on the varsity cheerleading squad. I had mono for a long time. Got to know Kevin better…and he boldly sent roses to my house on Valentine’s day when I was dating someone else.
2003- Kevin and I started officially dating on March 1st. I auditioned at Samford for a music scholarship. Graduated high school and moved into a 6 story building where I would share a bathroom with about 30 other females.
2004- Surprisingly, I have no significant memories from this year. I suppose I made several road trips to Berry College.
2005- Moved into my first apartment with a roommate. Kevin asked me to marry him on October 21st. He graduated early in December.
2006- Had my senior voice recital. Spent a lot of time planning a wedding. Came to the realization that I did not want to teach high school choir (which had been my plan all along). I decided I am much better suited for little kids.
2007- By far the biggest life changes happened this year. I got married, took a honeymoon to Cozumel, finished student teaching, graduated college, got hired for a teaching job on the exact day I had prayed for, and we bought a house in June (moved in September).
2008- Maggie Magoo entered our lives; enough said. I truly started to care about college football and my marriage improved dramatically. Kevin and I went to our first UT game together in Knoxville.
2009- Lane Kiffin took over as head coach of UT football. I started my cake business Art by the Slice. I really started to feel like I’m getting the hang of this teaching thing. Our first sweet nephew was born! Kevin finished his MBA at Samford; so proud of him.
2010- Who knows what it has in store? I can already tell you a couple of things. We are taking a trip to Cancun at the end of the month (thanks to my awesome husband doing a great job at his work!) We are finally going to take our trip to NYC in June. I meant it, we are really going this year! My big bro will get to move back to the states and be much closer to us, hooray! And then there’s always the question of when will we move to Knoxville…most likely not this year but stay tuned.
Here’s to a new year with new challenges and new blessings. Happy 2010!
Posted on Dec 14, 2009 under Holidays |
I have no good excuse for why I’ve been absent from blogging for so long. But I think my few faithful readers will survive =) So since it’s been exactly a month since I last posted…I will try to catch you up on life lately. Most of it will be done with pictures (my favorite kind of post).
November and December were busy months at school. We had the All County music festival followed by about 4 other programs. I can only show pictures that don’t have close ups of kids so here is one from last Thursday’s Christmas show.
We spent Veteran’s Day weekend with Kevin’s parents in Cloudland Canyon (our new tradition).
I have been very busy with cake-making. And I know I said I was done doing the cake catalogue pictures on here, but we are having some issues with the website right now. So here are some of the latest:
A couple of weekends ago, the Georgia girls decided we would start an annual tradition of having a “baking weekend” before the holidays. It was such a fun time, and I told them we absolutely had to get a group shot because I have no proof that they exist! Unfortunately the old man I asked to take our photo had very shaky hands so the picture came out blurry, but he was sweet to do it.
Back up to Thanksgiving (sorry for going out of order) when the families came to Birmingham. Again it was such a fun time. Here is our only successful attempt at getting Maggie to face the camera.
Last night we had our church community group over for the Dirty Santa Christmas party. Ahh memories….
And finally, we had our flat screen T.V. delivered and installed last week. I don’t have any pictures but you can use your imagination. This was quite a big deal considering we’ve been talking about getting one and then changing our minds back and forth for so long. Now we are really happy with it and we basically just watch with our mouths hanging open.
I have one week (4 days to be exact) before we get out for Christmas break. Hopefully I can post more often then. Lots to look forward to in the coming weeks! Thanks for stopping by.
Posted on Jul 07, 2009 under General, Holidays |
We had a great time in Tennessee this past weekend. I think July 4th is my new favorite holiday! Just a nice time to relax with friends and family, enjoy good food, and watch the fireworks. The puppies also had a great time =)
The night before we left for home, we celebrated Sarah’s birthday.
Mmm, mmm good.
A rare family photo, after playing Korn Toss- Kevin’s new favorite game.
Our typical self portrait.
Trying to sneak pictures of Maggie in the back seat without her knowing.
Stop taking pictures!
Posted on Dec 30, 2008 under Family, Holidays |
Over time I think every married couple develops a “thing.” What I mean by that is something that is special and cute to only the two of you, like an inside joke. I can remember from an early age that my parents’ thing was the banana stickers. Just to be funny one of them would always sneak into the kitchen and steal the Chiquita sticker off a bunch of bananas and hide it somewhere on the other person’s clothes. It might take my mom or dad a minute, a day, a week, or even months to find it. But when they discovered that sticker all would have a good laugh. It was a simple little reminder of “I love you.”
Well for Kevin and I, our thing has become socks. Yep that’s right it is sock love. For pretty much any special occasion now Kevin always gets me socks. Why you ask? It all started back on Valentine’s Day of 2004…
We had been dating almost a year and were celebrating our very first Valentine’s day together. You should know that Kevin is really not into this holiday. Don’t get me wrong, he is incredibly romantic, but it’s just he would rather do something as a romantic surprise on a random Tuesday than be expected to bring home flowers every February 14th. And I don’t blame him it is mostly another day for the greeting card companies. Anyways, we had made a mutual agreement not to really do much in the way of presents for each other. We were just planning to spend a nice weekend together. So late that Saturday night, at an incredibly random moment, Kevin whips out his gift for me. A pair of thick purple socks, slipper socks to be exact. No wrapping paper or bag, he just handed them to me and said “happy Valentine’s Day.” What is a girl to do in this moment? I think I was pretty much speechless and all I could do was laugh. A few seconds later both of us were laughing pretty hard.
Well I look back on that moment with fond memories. I’m sure I gave him a hard time about the socks back then, but now I love the gift because it is “our thing.” What do you think Kevin got me for a wedding present? That’s right, a pair of long green knee-highs (which keep me quite warm in the winter.) Anyone who sees our wedding photos will immediately go “huh? why is she holding socks in her wedding dress?” but I knew exactly what they meant.
And so here is the latest addition to my sock collection: my Christmas presents.
I happened to open the pair on the right first, and was impressed that Kevin has been learning new fashion terms and got me the Argyle socks. Second I opened the pair of music socks. I already started laughing when I saw the treble clef…then when I pulled them all the way out of the bag and saw the keyboard cuffs I was laughing uncontrollably. I told him “wow I guess I’m really a music teacher now!” You could almost say I was laughing my socks off (okay okay that was a little cheesy )
Well I think I’ve officially won the award for using the word “socks” the most times in a single blog post.
Ah love…
Posted on Dec 29, 2008 under Family, Holidays |
Kevin and I got back yesterday from a lovely Christmas in Tennessee. We were fortunate to stay a whole week and see our families and spend quality time together. I’ll admit a lot of our time was spent watching the two dogs Maggie and cousin Louie playing together constantly. It was quite entertaining! We all smiled and breathed a huge sigh of relief when they finally fell asleep
Here as you can see, Louie is perfectly posing for the camera and Maggie is letting it all hang out.
Don’t let their cuteness fool you, they are about to chew on each other’s ears.
A rare, peaceful moment when both dogs were curled up around Kevin’s feet while opening presents.
It was also great getting to see Caleb since he has been gone for so long.
What a good lookin’ family!
There was a little more to our trip than just Christmas. I surprised Kevin with an early anniversary trip and we spent one night in Asheville, NC at the Biltmore Village Inn, a cozy bed and breakfast. This was our first experience at a B&B, instead of a regular hotel, and I think we were both pleasantly surprised. I had found this place on tripadvisor.com which I would highly recommend to anyone taking a vacation. That was also how we found our honeymoon place a couple years back in Mexico and they did not let us down! Anyways, here are just a couple shots of the place.
I know we look really small, but the guy taking this picture considered it a ‘close up’ shot.
Picture of the outside, a very pretty place.
All in all we had a great, relaxing week and we are happy to be back home to savor every last minute of vacation.
Happy holidays!