One Year

Yesterday was Aaron and my first wedding anniversary! I can't believe it's already been a year, it went by SO quickly!
A lot has happened in the last year:
We started off the summer living apart while I was in Dayton doing an internship and Aaron was in Oxford working and taking summer classes.
Aaron's parents and brother moved out to Oklahoma.
We made lots of road trips to Lexington to visit Noah and Mel.
Aaron drove out to Oklahoma to visit his family (I was still in school so I couldn't go).
We welcomed our first child (aka Zoe the boxer puppy) for my birthday in November.
We celebrated our first Christmas together with my parents (it was also our first Christmas not celebrating with Aaron's family :-( )
We rang in the New Year in Lexington with Noah, Mel, Isaac, Leanne and the girls. We left the following day for a cruise around the Caribbean with my family.
I found a job I'm extremely excited about starting this fall.
And I GRADUATED from Graduate School!

We didn't really do anything exciting to celebrate. We ate the top layer of our wedding cake, went on a nice long walk with the dog and helped one of my closest friends from grad school move out of her apartment :-( But we got to spend the whole day together and that's what counts!

It's been a wonderful year and I'm excited to see what the next year has in store for us!

Graduation

On Saturday, I am officially done with my college education! After 5 years of year-round classes, lots of hard work, and some tears I will have finally earned my Master's degree! I have worked so hard for this degree and I'm not one to "toot my own horn" but I am extremely proud of myself!
There are two ceremonies on Saturday (one for just my department and one for the entire university) and I have a lot of family coming into town to help me celebrate this exciting occasion! It should be a good time!
I have the summer off (Aaron and I hope to get a few vacations in) and then I start working mid-August. This will be a much needed and well-deserved break!
Now we just have to get Aaron graduated in December! ;-)

This past weekend my Aunt Jenny came into town from Michigan. On Saturday my mom had a brunch/tea party for all of her sisters (all 5 of them), my grandma and a few of my cousins so we could get together and catch up. We had lots of "girl food" quiche, fruit pizza, spinach salad, french toast and muffins. It was nice to talk with everyone and see what's been going on in their lives and with the rest of the family. My mom, her sisters and my grandma started reminiscing about when they were growing up. It was funny to hear the stories and how each of them remembered things differently (or didn't remember it at all!). It was a great day filled with good food, good company and lots of laughs!