2011 Retrospective

So, our internet has sucked big time the last two weeks, so this is a bit late... but, without further ado, I give you 2011 in pictures! (which makes it seem SO much better than it was in real life!)

Snowpocalypse 2011 gave us a chance to hike all over East Atlanta AND a week off of work!

Our friend Rob got tickets to Gaelic Storm for my birthday-- definitely one of the best concerts I've ever been to!

On my birthday, I woke up to a beautiful breakfast and flowers from Jeremy

And then almost 20 of my friends came out to dinner with us at the BEST sushi place around-- Nori Nori!

Over spring break, we taught the kids about the original Olympics-- they built their own hoplite armor and had races!

We got to meet Marcus from Storm Chasers and see the TIV! (Tornado Intercept Vehicle)

On our old porch, we took advantage of the beautiful weather and had everyone over for DIY raviolis-- they were AMAZING!! 

We went to Stone Summit with John, Paige, Nandan, and Anu and had a great time climbing!

I had the honor of participating in the first Southeastern Chapters Recruitment Workshop! <3 AOII!

Thanks to Yelp, we got to go see a great exhibit on Italian Motorcycles that was right up Jeremy's alley! 

In a rare display of sibling concord, Julian passes off some of his Easter Egg Hunt haul to Violet, who mostly spent the time getting distracted and asking Jeremy to carry her.

Our friend Heather got her MBA! (and we had an excuse for a party!)

Caq and I got to see our long lost middle school bestie, Kendra (far right) who moved out to LA and got herself married! We also may or may not have had a little too much fun watching Lewis figure out whether he likes lemons or not... 

Over Memorial Day Weekend we got to go see Krystal and Charles and the kids-- it was loads of fun and we hope to see them more this year!

We also got to see lots of Ana-- I played outside with her with the sidewalk chalk and badminton racquets, and she loved her new sunglasses!

Then, inside, I taught her how to make miso soup

Before we had to head home, we got a picture with her

And she chased Jeremy around the front yard to keep us from leaving

Jeremy got the camp kids hooked on paper airplanes

And then, of course, all of our great field trips! 

Zoo Atlanta

Stone Mountain

High Museum of Art

Georgia Aquarium

Lake Lanier

City of Decatur Police Talk

Spirit Week!

I got to visit a nearby Monastery with the Young at Heart Sunday school class and the Elder Care Pastor (who is one of my favorite people at the church!) 

Nicole, who is on the AAC with me, and her husband Tom came with us to the Zoo

And we fed the parakeets! One of them even hopped up in Tom's hand!

This fall, we were lucky enough to get to the beach to see my Aunt and Uncle, whom we haven't seen since the wedding-- it was so great being back at the beach! Hardly anything has changed, and I miss it so much there!

Thanksgiving was spent with the Clarks, where we got to see Josh and Sarah

Go to the Oliver Winery

and see Grandma Traylor and the horses and dogs!

We had an anniversary party at our place with lots of delicious food!

And for the first time since we've been married, we got to set up our own Christmas Tree!

Yep, things went alright this year, according to the pictures-- but everything that happened between the pictures was... well, a little suspect to be honest.

Here's to 2012!