Happy New Year!! 2012!!

We were lucky enough to get invited to an awesome black tie party on December 30th with some of our wonderful friends and my parents' friends. It was so fun seeing everyone dressed up! There was tons of champagne, great wine, and awesome food. We had a lot of fun. Here are some of the pics:

Sumner and Mike

Jamie being Jamie

Shots!

Shots...eww

On New Year's we had our friends Kelly and Alex over for appetizers, steaks, and fondu! And of course more champagne!  We also played several rounds of catch phrase which was highly entertaining :) Here is our alcohol table: 

I had trouble finding a "new years eve" table cloth..

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New Year's Resolutions: 

1. My resolutions are to organize our apartment.

I haven't come up with any others yet but here is my progress...

Spice cabinet. I should have taken a before and after because this is actually way better than before.

I did have all the spices stacked all over the place but with my mini lazy susan I can see almost all of them.

Of course we have too many spices but this is improvement! I also started organizing the pantry but I ran out of

time and $$$ on that project... so maybe next week!

2011 wrap up!!

2011 was a fantastic year for us! In case you forgot we got MARRIED :))))! I love the idea of going back through each month to remember all the great things/places we went. Most of it was filled with our wedding events but we also went to several weddings as well. Here are the highlights: 

January: My birthday in Philly!! That was such a fun but cold weekend.

February??- This will be our February picture because it looks really cold.  Touring the Cherry Blossoms

March: My friend's beautiful wedding in Ponte Vedra

April: Another wedding :) This one was in Virginia! We had a blast!

May: Moving to our awesome but tiny high rise apartment!

June: Another wedding!! This one in Rhode Island! It was so fun going to Rhode Island and we had the best time!

July: 4th of July weekend in Roanoke- best weekend in Virginia ever! We loved being on the lake and spending time with Jamie's family. We will really miss this!

July: Our couples shower :)

July was a great month: Bachelor and Bachelorette parties :) Mine was in South Beach!

August: Bridal Shower!

September: OUR WEDDING! The best part of the year! This was such a happy wonderful day! We have a million wedding pictures all over our house :)

October: Our first race together-the Army 10 miler

November: Our first married Thanksgiving!

December: Our first married Christmas!!

2011 was so great we can't to see what 2012 brings!! We just know it's going to get even better! 

Christmas 2011~ Our first Christmas

This year was our first married Christmas! Thanks to some of our wonderful friends we did have 2 first Christmas ornaments!! We spend Christmas Eve lunch at our apartment having appetizers and playing Christmas charades, then we were off to Mass for the Christmas service. And finally we went back to my parents' house for dinner and opening gifts. Christmas day Jamie and I got to spend time opening gifts, hanging out and then going for a run together. It was nice and relaxing! Christmas day dinner we spent with the Harris' and my family for dinner and corn hole. Here are the pictures!

My decorations for the house

Best cookies ever! Peppermint chocolate chips yum

They looked great in the kitchen!

Santa Crackers

Caprese Tartlets and Spinach Tartlets

Turkey and Cranberry

Jalapeno poppers!

The dessert and champagne table

YUM!

Oscar enjoying the box and frostie

Stella attaching paper

Charades!

I have no idea what this one was..

I believe this was the elf

Newly weds!

Peyton!

Jamie loves his Christmas present!

Christmas morning sticky buns!

Oscar's favorite toy- the ball chirps like a bird.. not annoying in the middle of the  night or anything

Stella's turn

Team work

Apartment #3 in one year

We are finally moved in, unpacked, and decorated for Christmas!!!! It's been a long week of trying to get done but we did it!! We still have to hang the mirror in our room and decide about curtains but for the most part it is finished. Here are the pics:

Master bath! It's huge with a big tub! Not that I take baths but you know

Dining room. We still need a kitchen table but it looks better dark brown

Ahhhhhh hello kitchen! I love this kitchen it is huge with lots of space. We even have a pantry!

And an island

Guest bath and guest hallway

Guest bath 

Living room. It's huge! And we have a screened in porch for the cats.

View of palm tree :) That makes me happy every day!

My finished project of all of the wedding pics

The bedroom pics will come when they are finished!