It's that time again...

For the New Years Eve Picture Retrospective!

2010 Version

Soundtrack: Cee Lo Green, "Forget You" and Willow, "Whip My Hair"

(Cee Lo in reference to 2010, not the people pictured below)

(in no particular order...)

Jill Marie got married!

Jeremy and I got to do a lot of awesome cooking

We got to see Ana-- we miss her so much!

A trip to Tybee let me show off my great home state!

A trip to the High to see the Last Emperor's army, including a huge replica of a bronze horse!

Violet's First Birthday

Jackson Miles Bertram Gamble-- the baby who shouldn't have made it. He's so big and happy now, you'd never know how close Becky came to losing him!

I got to reconnect with one of my old AOII advisers and help install a new chapter!

We got our first place together!

Laura got married!

I FINALLY got to visit HQ!

And learned more about my favorite founder, Stella George Stern Perry

 Jeremy, Josh, Sarah and I at Grandma Allen's on Christmas Night

 Jeremy teaches the kids about Orchids at Fernbank

 Alexandros and Stephen help us celebrate our first anniversary at Palate (where we had our rehearsal dinner)

I cooked my first Thanksgiving turkey with cornbread stuffing from scratch and it was PERFECT!

 We had a great (and less expensive!) Halloween carnival with the kids at work

 We got to go to the zoo which I hadn't done in sooo long-- this is the front of our Summer Camp brochure this year!

 We spent 4th of July with Vivi and Jules

 We got to go to the Hollywood Cafe from my second favorite Memphis song ever (first being "Graceland" by Paul Simon, can't beat Paul Simon!) "Walkin' in Memphis" by Marc Cohn

 We got to see Josh and Sarah a few times this year! We're so thankful for that, we'd love to see them more often!

 We got to meet Tu and the other animals at Grandma and Grandpa Traylor's

 We had a great staff party at Twain's before Christmas

 I got to use my wedding china! (hot toddy, you saved me during cold season!)

 I got to explore AOII with my sisters at Leadership Institute

 Got to reconnect with old friends and re-live the "good old days"

 Got to go to the Botanical Gardens several times and see the beautiful glass pieces they had on display

Got to meet more of my amazing AOII sisters!

Dinner

 Marc carves the turkey

 Turkey, shrimp, and smoked Boston butt!

 Chili and Oyster Stew

Sweet Potato Bake, Cheese Soup and Green Bean Casserole

Nala

Nala is Josh and Sarah's cat... she's normally a little strange, but when you give her some catnip all bets are off!

 Stalking the fire...

 Stalking Josh AND the fire

Grooming Jan with surprising furiousness!

All in all she's not too bad, though-- fairly quiet and likes to play, plus she doesn't shed like a monster! 

Turkey Fryer!

The idea was to put it by the garage door and that way if it caught on fire, they could kick it out in to the snow on the driveway. Josh then parked his car in the driveway... good thing it ended up juuust about perfect!

White Christmas

It was a white Christmas for us! Here's the view from Josh and Sarah's front door that morning...

Clark Menfolk

Matt, Marc, Josh, Jeremy, and Ryan after Christmas Dinner

Home Again, Home Again

For those of you out in space, we've made it home safely and without any incident. There was an annoying hour-long backup at Chattanooga thanks to folks who weren't following the basic rules of traffic, but we did get to stop in Nashville and see my friend Jeff!

That's all for now, I'm going to be going through pictures from the week and the drive home and will start posting tomorrow.