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.

My Last Trip to Dallas

My last visit to Dallas, Elizabeth and Steve took me to the Nasher Sculpture Garden.  We had fun goofing around this park and their unique sculptures.

Nasher Sculpture Garden

In Dallas a couple weekends ago, Elizabeth, Steve and I went to the Nasher Sculpture Garden.  They had quite a few neat pieces but by far this was our favorite.  From the front this piece was very unimpressive but can't tell what it is supposed to look like until you are inside the building.  Once there it was so clear and really neat.

Imitating art.

This one was called "My Curves are Not Mad."

They had this room with all solid white walls and a hole in the ceiling.  There was a little debate as to if the ceiling was the sky or actually painted. It was a really clear blue day with amazing weather!

Elizabeth and I acting like the goof balls we are.

Couple other neat pieces we saw.

 

 

Old Faithful - in Dallas

While I was in Dallas we were headed out for a bottle of wine in Elizabeth and Steve's neighborhood.  On our walk we passed over these water and cable access holes.

Not sure which one I stepped on but next thing I know my foot is going into a hole about a foot deep.  I then end up falling on my butt and quickly realize something is amiss....

Old Faithful started spouting water at me.  It was at least 30 feet high!  We were soaked and disgusting. At least our jeans came clean, but I'm not sure if my boots survived the night though!!

Alan Jackson Said it Best

On how I wish Dallas was in Tennessee
If I could move Texas east
Then she'd be here with me
Then nothin' else would come between the two of us
If Dallas was in Tennessee

If they only had a similar song about Michigan too!  Miss my Eliz!

These pages from our trip in April to visit Elizabeth and Steve (and Reggie & Sophie).

Texas Stadium

On the way to the airport we passed by old Texas Stadium which has been imploded that morning.  Now just a pile of rubble.

   

(Sorry it's blurry!)

JENGA

We had a very low key weekend with Elizabeth and Steve.  Steve had to work some but we had time for fun in between!  On Saturday night we went out to Bar Acadia.  They are the neatest theme having old school video games, skeeball and even an jumbo sized game of JENGA.  I did not have the best luck but we had a ton of fun playing!

See how serious a game this was? 

We were trying to keep the boys from claiming victory!

Elizabeth being the supportive teammate cheering me on!

Until it came crashing down!

Sorry Eliz!

We then tried our hand at skeeball.  Here is Darren rocking the skeeball.  He ended up a final score of 300,000, just above Eliz's 270,000!

And Steve tried to win at Frogger but we were not nearly as good at is as we used to be back on the TRS-80 Model 1!!

Sophie

Elizabeth and Steve got the most adorable puppy Sophie.  She is a mini Aussie and sweet as can be!  She loves to play and get her belly rubbed!  She loves attention and when we took her to the bar with us she sat by the fence and let everyone pet her!

Here are her and Reggie in the car.  In this picture she looks HUGE compared to him but really she is about half of his size and gaining quickly!

Sophie is adorable but Reggie is my puppy!