First Things First...

So I totally stole this from Erica at Young & Fabulous

1.  First thing you do when you wake up in the morning...check my phone

2.  First thing you reach for when you open the fridge...a drink

3.  First things you do when you go to the gym...get on the treadmill

4.  First thing you do when you get home from work...put all my stuff down and go to bed!

5.  First car...Honda Accord

6.  First car accident/traffic violation...a speeding ticket when I was 27ish

7.  First thing you wanted to be when you grew up...a baby nurse #check

8.  First choice beverage...Diet Mtn Dew

9.  First choice breakfast...french toast

10.  First choice dessert...cupcakes

11.  First song that comes to mind...Begin Again~Taylor Swift

12.  First major purpose...to be the middle child??  HA!!

13.  First job...babysitting

14.  First time you flew on a plane...my summer between sophomore and junior year to Key West

A look back at 2011...

So I've seen lots of people doing these kinds of posts and thought I would jump on the band wagon!

January

We went to our friends 80's themed 30th birthday party

February

We hung out with friends for superbowl 

March

We gave my baby sister a fabulous Bridal Shower 

(one of my favorite pictures of her but couldn't post because I couldn't show her dress!) 

Love this picture of her as well!

 

April

Lindsay's bachelorette party in Nashville 

May

My baby sister got married!!!!

(all pictures courtesy of Rowe Portrait Studios) 

Then my cousin got married 

June

Then one of my favorite friends got married

(My summer was full of weddings!) 

We also celebrated several birthdays

July

A group of us went to Current River for the weekend and had a great time! 

August

Celebrated birthdays and went out with some fabulous friends 

September

We surprised our friend with a surprise 30th birthday party 

We also went to Ravishing in Red to support some local charities 

I just happened to be crowned Miss Ravishing in Red the same night 

October

Another friend got married 

November

I moved out of my tiny little apartment and into my new spacious rental house

with a garage and central heating and air!!! 

I didn't recap December because I feel like I would just be posting everything I just posted the last couple of weeks.....except for my best friend telling me the other day that they are having another

BABY!!!!  (I'm pretty sure she has told everybody she needs to and I'm pretty sure none of them read my blog!!) 

 I plan on doing a post on my New Years "Resolutions" (although I need a different word, I'm pretty sure I will be using a thesaurus soon). 

I hope everyone has a great New Years Eve celebration and be careful.  As someone at work said the other day, "NYE should be called amateur night, because people who don't normally go out do and usually drink way to much."  That's why we are hanging out with friends at their house, safe and sound!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

I was very lucky that I got to go home for Thanksgiving this year. I worked last year. It was a great day of seeing most of my moms family. We went to my grandma and grandpa's house and had all the good food! My dads family doesnt usually get together for Thanksgiving so we had plans to go to dads on Saturday for lunch. I haven't posted what I've been thankful for yet so I'm going to do it now.
I'm thankful for my family and friends.
I'm thankful for my health.
I'm thankful for my job and the friends I've made there.
I'm thankful for my new house.
I'm thankful for my 2nd job.
I'm thankful for hopes and dreams!!
I'm thankful for being able to sleep during the day.
Hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving day. Now we can say Merry Christmas!!!

Lindsay & I at Thanksgiving 

Heather & I 

Michelle, Kelsey, Me, Katie & Mom heading out for our Black Friday shopping trip!!

Miscellany Monday

1.  I had no clue how much stuff I had stuffed in the apartment (ok, maybe I knew it was a lot but seeing it all strung out everywhere made me realize it!)  I hope I don't have to bring any of it back after the garage sale this weekend!

2.  I made it through my first week of night shift.  I've done well with it so far, let's hope it stays that way!

3.  I wanted to get some sun yesterday so I went to my friends pool to lay out....I kind of turned into a lobster.  Woops!  Feeling much better today, just a little red still.

4.  I'll be so happy when I have a bigger place with a garage and a washer and dryer!

5.  I finished the first season of 90210 and can't wait to start the 2nd season!  I need to buy that today!

6.  Until then, it's back to One Tree Hill!!

7.  It's amazing the amount of pens, pencils, high lighters and sharpies I've found while I'm cleaning out everything!  I've always been a little obsessed with pens and such!

8.  Not really needing a huge change in life but a little one would be nice!

9.  While cleaning out, I've found several of the bouquets I've caught at weddings....5 (and those are just the ones I've kept because the flowers are fake)

10.  I loved that I found a Coach purse that I totally forgot I had!!

Bullets

• I love love love my new job!!  As much as I hate getting up at 4:40 it's great once I get there!
• I am so looking forward to this new year.....I see good things, good things.
• I really have to get serious about losing this weight I've put on and get in shape.  I mean seriously, Lindsay's wedding is in less than 5 months and the dress is going to not look as fabulous as I want unless I lose this weight and get some toned arms!
• I'm ready for spring, or at least not so cold weather.
• I'm so addicted to One Tree Hill!
• I didn't go to the gym today.....crap
• Even though taxes suck throughout the year, I'm really looking forward to my tax refund and the sooner the better!
• I'm so ready to have my own washer & dryer again.
• I miss my friends....I really have to call them more often.
• My (& Michelle's) maid of honor speech really needs to be started.
• After typing this out I realized I need to make a gigantic to-do list!

Hope everybody's new year is off to a great start!