2013 Year in Review

Wow 2013 you sure went by quickly!! It seems like each year flies by faster and faster than the previous year. I'll try to let the photos do the talking. :)

January

With busy season I honestly don't remember what happened or didn't happen in January.  However in late January Scrubmates hosted Winter Wine & Tea.  We were fortunate enough to have the Colt's super bowl trophy to take pictures with.

February

This didn't happen in February but it aired, our TV debut, on Pawn Stars!

March

A work trip to Dallas to see my buddy Reggie happened in early March.  Then, at the end of busy season, I was rewarded with a trip to the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 to see Louisville on their run to the National Championship.

 April

By April, Darren's interviews were in full force.  We coupled an interview at Mt Sinai with a long weekend in New York City. 

 May

During Darren's last interview leg in May, we ended up doing a road trip to Durham, Charleston, Asheville, Savannah and Gatlinburg.   Also in May we went to the Indy 500 for the first time.

 June

In June we went out and celebrated Mollie's birthday with a beautiful cake and a tasty dinner.

 July

 In July we had a BBQ for the 4th and the following weekend went to Chicago to celebrate the wedding of Kristin and Tim.

August

In August I went to my first official soccer game and saw Chelsea beat Inter Milan.  Then we jetted off to Vegas and met up with Jason and Michelle for a long weekend and then spent the rest of the week in Los Angeles. 

September

A weekend in September ushered in football season with the Bears playing the Vikings. 

October

In October we celebrated our first anniversary by taking our first trip to London!

November

In November I got to join Bryan and Carolyn for their baby shower in Chicago and then that same weekend we went to a second bears game against the Lions.

December

Christmas.  So grateful we got to celebrate with both of our families again this year.

Sweet 16

Last fall tickets went on sale for the Sweet 16 and Elite games in Indy for the Men's NCAA tournament.  We had planned for the last year to go.  The games were at Lucas Oil Stadium.

 The games were the Oregon Ducks

 Vs the Louisville Cardinals.

 And the Duke Blue Devils

Vs the Michigan State Spartans.

The Road to the Final Four and it's National Champion came through Indy!

 A couple of game shots.

 

 In the end despite losing Kevin Ware, the Cardinals prevailed in the Indy regional and onto the Final Four which they also won!  A few celebration photos.

 

 

 

 

Pacers vs Bulls

In April at the end of the NBA season, we were able to finally see the Bulls play the Pacers!

The Pacers mascot gets hoisted  to rafters manually being pulled up by a group of men.  Crazy they didn't install something more automatic!

Bulls win, Bulls win!! A 92-87 final!

Pacers vs Heat

A few weeks ago, we went to our first Pacers game at Banker's Life Fieldhouse. The game was against the Heat.  While I was not at all invested in the outcome, it was cool to see LeBron play even though the Heat didn't win.

Reggie Miller's number hanging from the rafters. Sorry for the blurriness, I could not get that picture to focus!

Center court.

Final score. Pacers 105 Heat 90. F

Fun work night with friends.  Wes, Vic, Matt, me, Jay and Darren.

Cats & Dogs... I mean Dores

Probably the least favorite layout I've created lately.  Just a little busy for me... But as we say it's done!

This is from the Kentucky/Vandy Basketball game.  Too bad we lost the game!

Ouch!

But I do love those 4 winning Chicago sports teams!!

March Madness

I think mid-March is my favorite time of year.  Spring is starting to appear in Nashville and skirt weather is now here.  There is also this things called March Madness that gets my blood pumping!

I will be rooting hard for my 'Dores today, my Alma Mater, vs the Murray State Racers, my mom, aunt and uncle's Alma Mater.

 
I've made one of the obvious choices in picking Kentucky to win over Kansas but I really almost went with Kansas pulling it off in the final game.  The rest of my final four is Pittsburgh and Duke.  'Dores, you had better bring it today!!!

A Great Game Against an Unfortuately Great Kentucky Team...

Saturday night was the much awaited match up with the #2 ranked Kentucky Wildcats.  The cats destroyed us up in Lexington earlier in the season so this was for revenge.  We played a great game and held starts John Wall to 13 points and 2 assists and DeMarcus Cousins to only 5 rebounds.

It came down to the last play and AJ Ogilvy missed a floater in the lane for the tie at the end of regulation.  Memorial was silent and we will have to wait for a chance to beat Kentucky another day.

Here are Jane and I with our pregame faces on.

The enemies, Brooke and Justin.

Mom and I a little sad after a great game.  Too bad it was a loss!