The Best of 2010 (Part 1)

Thanks to Emily from Lived a Charmed Life for this great idea! 

2010 has been such an amazing year for us; so this is the perfect way to document all of our special memories! Since our year was so busy, I'm going to split it into two posts (before and after the wedding!)

I'd love to see some of you do a "Best of 2010" post! Leave me a comment if you do!

January

{Celebrating New Years in Pittsburgh!}

{Lots of snow in Pittsburgh!}

February

{yummy Valentine's dinner for my sweet boy!}

{fun night at Wofford with the girls...miss them!!}

{Elizabeth's Bachelorette Party in Charleston}

March

{Wedding Party in Lake City with my parents' friends!}

{Monogram Shower with my best friends!}

{my precious niece Isabelle turned 3!}

{my mom and I hosted Elizabeth's Bridal Brunch in Charleston on her wedding day}

{Elizabeth got married in Charleston!}

{Joe and I celebrated our birthdays with my family!}

{birthday dinner with my amazing friends in Spartanburg!}

{hiked the New River Gorge on our drive up to NY...what a gorgeous view!}

{We took our first trip to our future home - we toured the city, Joe's new law school, and found our apartment!}

*goodness, march was busy!

April

{celebrated my pretty mama's birthday at home!}

{Kitchen/Recipe Shower in Greenville}

{mom and I roadtripped to Pittsburgh for my shower with Joe's mom's friends and his family!}

{made a bouquet for my bridal portraits with flowers from Costco!}

{bridal portraits at Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner, SC}

{my bachelorette party in Charleston!}

May

{Carrie's gorgeous wedding in Greenville}

{Joe's Wofford graduation!}

Our Christmas Cards

I know I've already shown these, but today I am linking up with Kelly, so I'm going to show them again! :)

I ordered our cards from Shutterfly, and absoltuely LOVED them! I couldn't decide on just one design, so I ordered two, and randomly sent them out. I knew that I wanted to use wedding pictures on them because, well, we spent way too much money NOT to use them! ;)

Sorry I had to make them ugly and blur out our names! I just love seeing everyone's different Christmas cards! We have all the ones we have received on a new bulletin board, and I am thinking about leaving them up AFTER Christmas! They look so pretty!

Top 2 Tuesday: Ornaments

I am SO excited about this week's Top 2 Tuesday! I absolutely love looking at all of my ornaments and thinking about the special memories associated with them! Before I got married, I would always help my mom put up her tree, and we would pull out each ornament one by one, and talk about what was special about it. Those precious times with my mom will always be some of my favorite Christmas memories! Now that I am married and have my very own Christmas tree, I was so excited to get some special ornaments that I can someday share with my own children! 

I have a lot of special ornaments on the tree, so it is almost impossible to pick out my top 2 favorites (let's just pretend it's Top 5 Tuesday!)

{wedding cake!}

{a little church!}

{engaged!}

{from our honeymoon in Aruba...it has sand inside!}

{from our sweet friends Allison and Brent!}

I've had so much fun seeing everybody's special ornaments!

Happy (1/2) Anniversary, Joe!

So sorry I've been M.I.A. since Thanksgiving...we had a wonderful trip to visit Joe's parents in Kansas City, then it was back to the real world when we got home, and blogging sort of took a backseat! Please forgive me! Our little apartment is all decorated for Christmas, and I can't wait to show you what all we've been up to!

Six months ago today, I married my sweet boy! I cannot believe it has been half a year; it seems like just yesterday we were in Spartanburg with all of our families and friends! The past six months have honestly been the most amazing months of my entire life. We have gone through so many crazy changes and adventures together in this short time; but I wouldn't have it any other way! Anyone who knows me, knows that I wouldn't move away from SC for just ANYONE! ;) I am so blessed to be able to share my life with such a wonderful man, and I am so excited for many, many more anniversaries together!

Happy 6 Months, Sweet Pea! Love you!

I've been making wedding albums for our parents, and it has been SO much fun looking back through all of our beautiful pictures. Here are a few favorites I don't think I've posted yet. Enjoy!