January:
- We celebrated the new year in Asheville with friends at our apartment (Joey and Erin came up to visit).
- After celebrating an awesome snow day in Asheville with our friends, we watched as Auburn became National Champions!
February:
- A bunch of us celebrated a friend's birthday by shooting skeet at Fowler Farms.
- Saw Yann Tiersen in concert.
- Harrison's family visited us in Asheville.
- Celebrated the baptism of my niece, Paige.
March:
- Saw Devotchka in concert (one of my top three concert performances of all time).
- Gave up meat for Lent.
- We went to Charleston, SC for a mini-getaway/medical conference.
April:
- Our family endured a tough month after receiving news that Paige (just 5 months old) was diagnosed with Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy.
- Josh and Heather visited us in Asheville. We canoed on the French Broad River and saw Widespread Panic in concert.
May:
- Harrison finished his master's degree in history.
- I had to break the news to my wonderful coworkers at Biltmore Family Medicine that I would be resigning to move to AL (even though we had no job prospects at the time).
- After stabilizing, Paige was released from the hospital after over a month long stay.
- We enjoyed a nice vacation with Harrison's family in Kauai, Hawaii.
- We had a family reunion (with my mom's side of the family) in Fripp Island, SC and celebrated my cousin, Erin's wedding.
- America breathed a sigh of relief in the news of Osama Bin Laden's death.
June:
- We attended Harrison's ten year high school reunion.
- We BOTH got jobs!
- We spent the month soaking up every aspect of life in Asheville, enjoying all it had to offer.
- We spent a wonderful weekend camping with all of our amazing Asheville friends.
July:
- For the 4th, we had a 'float party' down the French Broad River with all of our friends.
- We took a great beach trip to the Outer Banks of NC.
- Nate and Kellye told us they were pregnant! The next day they called back telling me they'd found out they're expecting TWINS!
- For our third wedding anniversary, we spent the day on Max Patch (where he proposed) with a fantastic picnic. We soaked in the 360 degree views of the Smokies and Blue Ridge Mountains that surrounded us.
- We packed up our apartment and had one last 'throw down' with our Asheville buddies at our 'No Furniture Party.' The next morning I cried bittersweet tears as I drove away with Asheville in the rear view and Auburn ahead of me.
August:
- As returning Alabama residents, we started our new jobs.
- I had a blast reuniting with my college sorority sisters at Jenna's bachelorette party and wedding.
September:
- Football season!
- Paige was readmitted back into the hospital, as her heart condition began to worsen.
- We (along with Harrison's parents) adopted a stray Brittany Spaniel that we named Piper. We're 'co-parenting' her.
- We celebrated the life of my Grandpop, who went to be with the Lord.
- Dad turned 60!
- After just 16 days on the heart transplant list, we were blessed with a donor for Paige. She successfully underwent a heart transplant on 9/30/11 and we've been singing praises ever since!
October:
- Harrison and I returned to Asheville for a friend's wedding and to reconnect with our friends.
- My brothers, sister, and parents met up in Atlanta for a weekend of fun to celebrate my Dad's 60th.
- I turned 28 and celebrated with Harrison at a nice restaurant and with Auburn home game win.
- For Halloween I dressed up as Princess Kate and Harrison as Magnum P.I.
November:
- We celebrated Paige's first birthday.
- Our entire family met at the hospital to hear Andrew announce that Aileen gave birth to a GIRL, Hailey!
- We spent Thanksgiving at my parents house, although only my parents, David, and Harrison could be in attendance.
December:
- We went back to Asheville for another visit and to see Beirut in concert.
- Harrison and I spent a lot of time with our families over Christmas and had a wonderful time together.
- For our New Year's festivities, I'll go into detail below:
This year, we decided to spend New Year's in Atlanta with our friends Erin and Joey. Harrison and Joey have been together on New Years more times than I've been with Harrison on New Years! On Friday night, we went to a great restaurant called JCT. We had a little 'cocktail hour' before our reservations, so we sipped on drinks outside in teak patio chairs, underneath heat lamps (although unnecessary for the 60 degree weather), as we listened to acoustic guitar and enjoyed the city view in the distance. I highly recommend this place!
At dinner we had the most amazing deviled egg appetizer I've ever put in my mouth. I'm still thinking about those eggs!
After going back to Erin's apartment and resting up a few hours for the night ahead, we got ready and met up with our friends Jameson and Katie. We went to the Bucket Shop Cafe (an Auburn hot spot) to watch our bowl game.
The game ended pretty late, around 10:45, so we had to figure out quickly where we wanted to be to ring in the New Year. One place popped into my head: JCT's deck! We knew it would be perfect outside with the unseasonably warm weather. We jumped into our cars and arrived at about 11:30. That gave us time to grab a glass of champagne (Prosecco for Erin and I), have a few photo opps, listen to the acoustic music, and enjoy the city view from the walking bridge (over the train tracks) that connected to JCT. At midnight we could see the fireworks going off in downtown.
Erin and Joey
Katie and Jameson
It wasn't a good idea for us to have a group picture under the heat lamp.
One of the servers gave Katie a massive amount of leftover balloons. She looks like she's going to float away:
On Sunday morning, we all grabbed brunch/lunch at a Taco Mac in Decatur and met up with David and Katie there. They had a fun night at the bowl game with Nate.
I wonder what we'll be doing next year for New Year's? What did you do?
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