January
As 2010 began, it was filled with a new beginning- Tommy and I as a married couple. We returned from our honeymoon and began settling in and organizing all the wedding gifts and recovering from all the madness. It was a time of rejuvenation.
February
February brought on Valentine’s Day, some family fun, as well as, my good friend Katie’s wedding and bachelorette party. Also, we received a bunch of snow that month and couldn’t resist snapping some pictures of the winter wonderland.
March
March was filled with lots of fun weekends with our little one, since we got to start keeping her for the entire weekend!!! We had lots of family fun.
April
April was jam packed with tons of great events and memories. I enjoyed a nice long Spring Break and Tommy and I attended the Season Opener for the Braves. Easter was at the beginning of the break and we enjoyed having all are family up for Easter weekend and did an Easter Egg Hunt for Lilly. Lilly was very spoiled by the Easter Bunny and we enjoyed attending Church on such a special day. We also celebrated our engagement anniversary by heading to the Melting Pot!! OMG was it yummy! We celebrated my birthday at the end of the month by heading to the Atlanta Fish Market with my parents and sister to celebrate! Some of the best seafood I have had in a long time!
I started preparing for graduation at SFHS! Cheerleading started back and I absolutely both my JV and Varsity squads this year. They were a great group from the start. I celebrated Mother’s Day with my mom by doing the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Atlanta Race. We do it every year and we always have so much and it’s great time for us to get to spend one-on-one time together! My sister also graduated from high school which was a major accomplishment!
June
We celebrated Father’s Day and Tommy got some great stuff. We spent A LOT of time at the pool and teaching Lilly how to swim! She loves the pool so much. We also went to the summer concerts at Sterling on the Lake. They are always so much fun!
July
This brought on our first entire week with Lilly!!! We had soooo much fun! We went to the pool everyday and painted toe nails, and had family movie nights. We would camp out in the living room and eat finger foods and watch a movie all together. We also celebrated Fourth of July with fireworks at Sterling on the Lake on Saturday night and on Fourth of July we had a huge party at our house and then went to watch fireworks! At the end of July, my amazing girlfriends from college through me a post-wedding “bachelorette” party! Since we moved up the wedding they weren’t able to attend the other bachelorette party thrown by my Atlanta friends and family. The weekend was called “Bex in the City” and we all had a wonderful time celebrating in Birmingham. I also attended UCA camp at UGA with the cheerleaders!! Peel banana, peel peel banana! My girls had fun and we actually won several of the competitions as well!
August
I prepared to head back to school and was actually excited about starting my new year. I redecorated my classroom and went with blue, black, white our school colors! Of course we had tons of polka-dots and zebra print! The rest of the month was spent preparing for our little one to turn 2! We did a Minnie Mouse themed party and Tommy and I actually put together a huge Minnie Mouse puzzle and had it framed for decoration and her room. Lilly racked up on tons of gifts but her definite favorites were her new “pink” kitchen and her princess table! I can barely keep her out of her “pink” kitchen now, she adores playing in it. We also celebrated Tommy's mom's birthday at the same time! At the end of the month we did Lilly’s 2 year-old pictures and got some family shots done at the same time.
September
I kept pretty busy every Friday and Saturday with cheerleading all through the month of September. I had Friday Night Football games and Saturday competitions! My girls got Top 3 at all of their competitions and even one first place twice!
October
Our main focus in October was doing everything “fall.” We took Lilly to the Burt’s Pumpkin Patch up near Dawsonville! Gran, Pops, and Aunt Rachael also went with us and we all had a blast. She picked out lots of good pumpkins to paint, carve, and decorate with. We carved pumpkins at the house and celebrated Halloween at a Fall Festival at Tommy’s work and going trick-or-treating! Also in October we traveled to Valdosta and Thomasville to catch a Blazer’s game and hangout with my best friend Nicole and her husband Matt! It was great getting to see everyone and introduce Tommy to the old stomping grounds.
November
My Varisty squad made it to State and we won 3rd place out of 84 teams!! Whoo-Hoo!!! We celebrated Thanksgiving and Tommy’s birthday. We went to my Aunt’s house for Thanksgiving and it was great spending time with all the cousins. We also went to a birthday party at Monkey Joe’s and it became Lilly’s new obsession. She had so much fun! We also decided to take her to ride the Pink Pig at Macy’s and get it in before the holiday season got to crazy.
December
December was loaded with tons of family events and wonderful Christmas season. We bought a NINE foot tree and decorated the whole house. Lilly even had her own pink tree in her bedroom. Lilly got to visit Santa and tell him about the “bunch” of presents that she wanted. We went to the Nights of Lights at Lake Lanier Islands and Lilly LOVED seeing all the Christmas lights and the carnival at the end. We celebrated with Tommy’s family and my family and made tons of rounds on Christmas day. Lilly racked up some pretty sweet stuff, but her three favorite things were her Barbie and Barbie car, Dance Star Mickey, and her new easel. She also got a Radio-Flyer pink tricycle that she loved. We ended December by celebrating our one year “Paper” anniversary. Tommy rented us a lake house at Lake Lanier Islands with a hot tub. Oooh-la-la! : ) I got him a 4-game pack for the Braves in 2011 and he got me a wonderful massage which I used right before heading back to school. New Year’s Eve we celebrated by going out to dinner and then spending a quiet night at home. We had plans with friends but their daughter got sick and we didn’t want to expose Lilly to anything! So we played Candyland and some other games and did sparklers outside.
It was an amazing year and I am truly blessed to have the most amazing family, friends, and school family!!
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