Whew, we made it!

I'm pulling a "what every other blogger is doing this week" and posting a little 2012 recappy.
It was a long year, so get your blog-readin' goggles on!

This year, there was good; there was bad.
There was drunkenness; there was {some} sobriety.
There was poop; there was sanitation.
There was Buggins; there was Nubbins. {If you've been reading this blog for more than a day, you know those are one in the same, of course!}

January

We left on Christmas Day last year and spent over a week in Scottsdale, Arizona! While there, we spent a lonnnnng day exploring the Grand Canyon. It was as beautiful, cold, windy, and exhausting as we imagined it would be :) 

We even took our first {and maybe only} helicopter ride. I think I'm a teeeense too claustrophobic to venture into one again.

February

February was a whole lot of wedding planning! Of which I took no pictures, because I looked like the Bride of Frankenstein before I became the Bride of Glenn.

This little lady turned 4! But she also got really sick and scared the bejesus out of us, as well as cleaned out our wallets, savings, and any money we ever hoped to spend on ourselves.

Note to fellow pet parents: make friends with your animal's vet. Maybe they'll comp you an x-ray. You never think that'll sound appealing, until you're asked to pony up $500 for said radiological shit. Grrrrrrr, said mommy and daddy. And no more tear-apart-able squeaky toys for Buggins!

Oh, you humans wanted to have kids and buy a house someday?
Nah, spend your savings on me, me, me!!!

March

These crazies went to VEGAS!!! Thanks to my amazing parents, the four of us, plus Glenn, plus my best friend Erin, headed out West again. This time to drink our faces off and grope some sexy Chippendales' abs. {Mom, Erin, and I did that part. The guys weren't too keen on joining us, obviously.}

Blurry, drunken picture quality and Bachelorette party penis straws, of course.

April

Oh, ya know, still wedding planning like our life depends on it. And also heading down to Hilton Head for the annual Heritage Drunkfest Golf Tournament. Mimosas galore and sexy golfer tushies in brightly-colored pants? Suuuuure, I guess I'll attend, if you really twist my arm about it.

May

We kinda did this cool thing called "marriage."

Friends and family came from all around the country, took shots with us two nights in a row, and are still talking about the party now, eight months later. Roaring success, I'd say!

June

Does "newlywedding" count as an activity? Since we'd smartly decided not to honeymoon immediately after our wedding, we spent this month enjoying calling each other husband and wife {no seriously, I even told Target cashiers about my husband.} and talking about combining bank accounts. Woohoooo living big, y'all.
My new husband also surprised me with tickets to the Brothers of the Sun tour to see Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw!! Mmmmm what a night!

July

Back to Hilton Head we go! I turned the big 2-3 {which felt the same as the small 2-2} and celebrated like I was in Vegas again, strippers and all. It's probably better if you just don't ask questions and check your opinions at the door. My drunken ego appreciates it, thank ya!

Not a shabby place to age!

August

August was the only month this year that we were in Charlotte for the entire month.
K, I did go to a work conference for a few days, but wining and dining clients doesn't count. I was really looking forward to our upcoming... {that means "see next month."}

September

HONEYMOON!!! We played the honeymoon card like craaaay and headed to San Fran and Napa to eat great food and drink even greater wine. Are you sensing a pattern of we like adult beverages? We also took a beautifully terrifying hot air balloon ride. Whew, still pee my pants a little when I think about that one.

Southern Living, Our Way was also born! This blog has brought me lots and lots and lots of joy, both as an outlet for my crazy ramblings and as a way to meet wonderful new friends {I love all of you so dearly!}, and I'm so glad I took the plunge and just navigated to blogger.com that boring Sunday night :)

October

Plaid, plaid, and more plaid, please! I'll never turn down lung-fulls of mountain air and an entire town of toothlessness. We spent a week in Gatlinburg, TN with my family and grandparents, relaxing in a cabin, watching football, and experiencing the first teasings of Fall. Nothing like scarves+boots+coffee on the porch+crisp mountain air.
Can you tell I'm itching to go back?

November

Someone's lived a whole quarter of a century! Thanks to Glenn's birthday, we headed back to Tennessee to cheer on our Vols. While there, I had my first BLATE. Blog+date=blate. Sexaaaay Oolalalauren and I, along with some friends and our handsome boytoys, met up for moonshine and moonwalking. The Cupid Shuffle may have also taken place, on the stage of a crowded bar.
Lauren, when am I coming to visit again? :)

We also spent Thanksgiving in Disney World with my family! I blogged about it A LOT. Like, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

December
The month started out on a SHITTY note. No seriously, you never appreciate clean carpet until it's not so clean anymore. But then we got new floors. You also never think you'll shriek with joy about new floors {my teenage self is so ashamed of my now-old self}.

We saw Trans-Siberian Orchestra to kick off the holidays!
I also spent my first Christmas away from my family and with my in-laws. We ventured up to a collllllld New Jersey to get our holiday on ~ some football, some eggnog, and some adorable babies!

If you made it through my whole 2012 recap, bless your little heart!
It was quite a year, both in great ways and in not-so-great ways. I am grateful for every day I'm alive and happy to have experienced all I did in 2012, but let's just say I'm welcoming 2013 with open arms {being careful not to spill my champagne, of course.}

HAPPY NEW YEAR, FRIENDS!!!