{One Year Anniversary}

8.1.2009

Miss these friends and this place!

Andrew and I celebrated a year of wedded bliss on August 1st :) We spent a long weekend in Hilton Head and it is refreshing to me that we can still have so much fun when its just the two of us! As I reflect back on the craziest, busiest, most stressful, and most memorable year of our life together, there are a few things I have come to learn/realize...

• My husband makes me laugh every single day!
• We are now the crazy cat people... and I'm ok with that
• As soon as we are employed, I will hire a cleaning lady
• Shopping for home decor has become (slightly) more fun than shopping for clothes
• It's REALLY nice having a husband who enjoys cooking!
• I eat a lot more ice cream than I would like to admit... 
• We miss our families a ton, but are so thankful to be living in Atlanta at this juncture in life :)
• I've permanently assumed the duties of toilet cleaning and grocery shopping
• Andrew will forever take out the trash and has been delegated "vacuum duty" (in exchange for my weekly potty scrubbing... fair deal!)
• We've made more life-long friends in Georgia than I ever could have dreamed!
• I still feel like a newlywed, and I hope that feeling never fades :)

Still laughing together every single day :)

I'd marry this guy all over again ;)

Extreme Makeover: BLOG EDITION

For anyone who actually reads this thing, my friend Sheila gave my blog a much needed makeover! Its so pretty and inviting that I might actually be enticed to start posting more than once per season :) Sheila is awesome - and so is her cute blog! You can check it out here: Sheila's blog.

Summer Update!

Is it REALLY already June 25th...?! This summer has gone by much too fast! Here is the update on our lives:

Andrew finished his first quarter of Chiropractic school last week! He did fabulous :) His grades were great and he survived the 27 hour course load just fine. His "summer" is a 3 week break from class, so he spent the first week in Atlanta keeping me company and is now up in Ohio visiting with family and friends for a week! I'll join him up there next Wednesday, and then we'll spend the following week in Canada on our annual family vacation. We can't wait! Oh, and Bella girl gets to come this year, too ;)

I'm busy working... but I'm having a ton of fun doing it! I'm babysitting three precious little kiddos 3 days a week, and working at their parents' bankruptcy law firm the other 2 days! It has been SUCH a good experience so far! I've learned a lot at the office, and at home with the kids haha. It has been excellent birth control - despite their cuteness. I'm excited for a break though and can't wait to see my fam and friends up in Ohio!

In other exciting news, I received a WONDERFUL email the other week! I was awarded a $32,000 scholarship for law school!!! We were thrilled with the news and now there is hope that we may actually be able to reproduce before the age of 35... just kidding. Sort of. But really, we're so excited! My hard work is - literally - paying off.

Looking forward to what is left of our summer and will keep y'all posted! Uh oh... I've been in the south almost a whole year now, y'all is starting to sound like English. I better get back to school......

Law School Ball

At the end of every year, law schools (well, most law schools) hold a Barrister's Ball... people call it the law school "prom," but really it is a fun night out to get dressed up and celebrate the fact that you've survived a first, or another, year of misery! Ok, I'm exaggerating. It's not that miserable! So maybe Barrister's Ball is more of a last hoorah before finals? Those are quickly approaching - in fact, I had one the morning OF the ball! - so I suppose the ball was probably the last night I'll spend out on the town until summer. In any event, we had a really great time! My grandparents were staying with us for the night as they passed through from Florida to Ohio, so we ended up going to the ball pretty late, but had a fabulous time nonetheless :) Here are a few pictures of us all dolled up and having a good time w/ friends!