April 2012

April was a busy month for me! The first week of April is Masters Week here in Augusta. The Masters is a golf tournament held every year at the National golf course and it brings thousands of people here. Traffic is awful and restaurants are packed but it brings the city a lot of money. All the schools here from elementary through college have spring break this week to encoruage residents to leave town to help balance all the visitors. This is the first year I haven't left town for at least part of the week. It was an interesting experience.

During Masters week, another golf course in town hosts a concert as a fundraiser. There's always a couple of small or local bands and then a "big name band." This year, the 2 bands I went to see were Darius Rucker (previously of Hootie and the Blowfish) and Corey Smith. This is me and Kristen, you can see the big crowd behind us!

And Daniel joined us after work!

Later that week, Daniel and I went to Columbia, SC with 2 other couples to see Red Hot Chili Peppers! This is Sarah, Tina, and me right before we left Augusta:

When we got to Columbia, we walked around downtown and then went to dinner. This is me and Daniel in front of a pretty fountain. I hate that the colors are weird!

And a cute picture at dinner:

Daniel and I also attended our friend Anne Marie's wedding in April. Here is me and the bride:

Anne Marie went to high school with Daniel and I met her in college. Here she is with her groom, Aaron:

Of course Daniel and I had to get a picture together!

The wedding was beautiful and the food was great! We had so much fun! April was a fun month with lots of events! I'm glad I'm not looking as pale as I was in the last few posts. May is up next and that means meeting baby Presley Rose in person!

March 2012

March was a pretty normal month I think. Daniel and I spent a lot of time at the lake, getting things ready for summer and fishing. Here he is with a catfish I think? Fishing is pretty new to me and I think it took until May for me to bait my own hook!

We got the yard landscaped with a Daily Deal thing (its like Groupon). It looked great! I love it when the roof, sidewalk, and driveway are all cleaned off!

Here's a couple pictures from our favorite place, Allie Katz:

These are obviously from different nights but it seemed like we were there every weekend for birthdays and other celebrations.

We also celebrated one of my favorite holidays, St. Patrick's Day! Not sure why I didn't take any pictures? Daniel and I went downtown and watched the parade and then hung out with his family all day. They are part of an Irish-American society, so it was a pretty big deal. We had a great time with great people and awesome food! I think that's pretty much all for March, kind of boring. I guess that's how it is when I can't talk about work and I don't have kids!





January and February 2012

I don't remember much going on in January and I have like 3 pictures for the whole month, so I'm guessing it was pretty uneventful! We had a friend staying with us during her divorce and she brought her 3 cats. Cooper wanted to play with them so badly and they just hissed at him! By the end of the month, they learned to tolerate him though!

February 2012

The 2 big things this month were Valentine's Day and the birth of my first niece! This is me and my friend Kristen from a random night out:

And of course, Daniel was there too:



Here are the beautiful flowers he got me for Valentine's Day:

We had a pretty low-key first Valentine's Day. He brought me flowers and I cooked spaghetti and meatballs and we just hung out at my house.

On February 24, my beautiful niece was born! My brother Philip and his girlfriend named their precious baby Presley Rose and she was 7 pounds, 9 ounces and 20.5 inches long. Here are some pictures from the hospital, proud Daddy already!

Sweet little newborn!

I can't get over how alert she was when it was time to go home!

I'm in love with her already! As I've mentioned before, my brother and Sydney live in Kansas City, MO and it is SO hard to be away from them! Sydney is a little better about sending pictures than Philip is but there is nothing like being able to hold her! My dad went to Kansas City for 8 days before Presley was born. She was due on the 18th and he ended up coming back to Georgia on the 21st, missing her by 3 days!  I think he went back up there for a quick visit a couple weeks later? I can't remember. That's what I get for waiting so long to blog!

That's it for January and February of this year. I would say 2012 started out pretty great! Coming up next: March!

It Has Been Too Long!

I got busy with the holidays and just quit blogging but I miss it and want to get back into it! I still read other people's blogs daily and I want to be a part of the blogging world! I see other people making lifelong friendships through blogging and I hope to be there someday. I guess I'll do a quick re-cap since November...

December 2011

Let's see, in December I turned 26 and started dating my current boyfriend, Daniel. Here we are at my housewarming party on 12.16.12 (2 days before we became "official" and 3 days before my birthday):

And here we are, ready to go out for New Year's Eve:

My dad threw a surprise birthday party for my step-mom. She was so excited and surprised!

 I decorated my own little Christmas tree, pink of course! One of these days, I'll need a bigger tree as my ornament collection grows!

Cooper went and met Santa at PetSmart. He loved him!

My handsome brothers on Christmas morning with Cooper and Lucky, my Grammy's dog:
Don't they look thrilled to be up early?

Cooper (mine), Coco (my parents' dog on top), and Lucky (right, Grammy's dog) after a long Christmas morning. Don't they all look like brothers?

My sisters and I did some Pinterest-inspired Crayon art, mine is the pink one of course!

We also threw my brother, Philip, a baby shower. I can't believe the only picture I took was of him with a baby cigar? He had a great time and got lots of stuff for the baby!





I guess I hit the important pieces of December. I enjoyed it because I got to spend a lot of time at home for my step-mom's birthday and Christmas. I'm thinking it was probably the last Christmas all of us siblings will be able to come home all at the same time. We are growing up and live further away and Philip has started a family now!