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.

Christmas in Kentucky

On Christmas Eve, with Darren in the midst of the stomach flu, we drove to Hopkinsville.  So gald to be with my family.

Mom's tree.

Steven getting some new art for his apartment.  UK, Bourbon and Keeneland, three of Steven's favorite things!

Darren getting another piece of autographed memorabilia!

The whole family picture and not a single one of us was missing.  Who knows if that will ever happen again.  And we even got Taylor to look at the camera!

Mom found a surprise in her package from Frank, the ugly ornament from the ugly ornament contest he couldn't find.  We all thought it was pretty cute.

Taylor's favorite thing to do was climb on the gifts.  Pictures don't do her adorableness justice!

Jerry excited to get an adjustable rake!

My aunt made these super cute penguin appetizers!

And I had an awesome Christmas and birthday.  My newest toy.  Can't wait to spend some time learning to take great pictures with it!

But another sentimental ornament from my mom.  Our First Christmas.  It was a success I'd say! :)

Christmas in Chicago

The weekend before Christmas we headed up to Darren's mom's house to celebrate Christmas with his family.  It was a great visit until I caught the stomach bug and gave it to everyone else!

Michell and Marlene and some Fireball.  If you haven't tried Fireball whiskey, I advise you to do so now!  Very tasty, makes you warm inside.

Jason & I.

Little did she know she was getting fireball for Christmas too!

2012 family picture. 

Opening gifts.

Now officially sisters.

Christmas in Indianapolis

A few shots of Christmastime in Indianapolis.

The tree downtown in the circle.

A pre-holiday dinner at Carmen's house.  She cooked an amazing feast in her hot pot!  That was the food dreams are made of.

Our Christmas tree before I moved all of the presents out to take to Chicago and Kentucky.

A cookie exchange I hosted with the Scrubmates girls. There was so much food.  Left to Right is Valerie, Erin, Amy, Carrie, me, and Meagan.

Christmas 2010

One of my inspired pages in awhile.  I found a cut out of similar shape and decided to make it my own and fit it to my pictures.  I really love the way it turned out and this might be my most favorite chipboard ever!

 

Christmas

Yes I'm still insanely behind but catching up pretty quickly!  This year Christmas was a bit different than we were all used to.  It was Heather and Marc's first married Christmas.

Emily and Jacob were MIA because this little one was on the way.

And it was my first Christmas with Darren too.

But somethings don't change.  There was tons of food as usual. Which led to a lot of family time in the kitcken.

 

And we had some welcome, yet uninvited guests.

And there were emotion inducing presents.  This is the flag that was over Papa's casket when he was buried.

And grin inducing presents. Bears beer steins and a UK jersey.

 

But one thing doesn't change.  The annual family picture!

We  also celebrated Christmas on New Year's Day with Darren's family.  I'm a bad blogger and only took one picture.  This one of Darren's sister Michelle and brother-in-law Jason.