december 2013

2013 was a wonderful year, and as the saying goes, time really does fly when you are having fun! Between my new job, some fun trips, more weddings and lots of laughs and late nights with family and friends the year is a blur. December was the perfect icing on the cake as we sent 2013 off right.

First (much later than usual, we didn't get out there until Dec. 15), we continued our tradition of cutting down our Christmas tree at Wall's Family Farm.

We went to Addison Improv with the gang to see Todd Glass and celebrate Steven's birthday. After the show, we went to see the lights at Vitruvian Park and grab some birthday cake shots.

Murphy started a new, totally adorable, habit of pouting from the end of the bed to try and convince us that he needs to come up. It works more often than not.

And finally, Alyssa came in town to visit! She was home for Christmas break and we got to see her twice! The first night we went out with her, Kyle and her good friend Stephen in uptown.

Then, she came back a few nights later for NYE. We went out to the Andreani's house to watch A&M BTHO Duke in the Chick-fil-A Bowl. It was a scary/depressing first half, but the Ags stuck it out with a come back win right before the clock struck mid-night. It was so fun to ring in the new year celebrating an Aggie win with the two people I spent most of my days in College Station with. Love you both!

christmas 2013

project manager: ryan's new digs

Holiday break = a little catching up on the blog...

Ryan started out his tenure at PK in a cube overlooking 75 and Northpark Mall. While I suppose cubes aren't super desirable, this is waaaaaayyyyyyy nicer/bigger space than any cube I ever had - plus it had a huge window, I was always jealous! But, with the promotion came a new office. Which means we need to get our act together and finally get our (or at least Ryan's) diplomas framed. In the meantime, we did some decorating to make it feel more his. There is still a lot of white space, but he says he loves it and I think it's a good start. Congrats again on your promotion, honey! It was definitely hard earned and well deserved.

nola

In December I got to spend Alicia's birthday with her (finally!). A December 7th birthday was rather inconvenient for college visits since it always fell during finals... and I guess I don't really have an excuse for the 3 years after graduation. Regardless, I booked the flight for 2013! Well, upon waking up Friday morning (Dec 6) it seemed nature had other plans. Dallas had gotten several inches of snow, and worse, lots of ice. These pictures looks bad (you can see how low the branches of our red oak in the front are drooping) ....

but I think this picture depicts it best. This is at the end of our street, near the Ridgehaven and Aldwick intersection. So much ice formed so quickly over night that many of the trees couldn't handle the weight. Luckily, there is another exit from our street and we braved the roads to make it to Love.

A few flight delays and a salted runway later I was off and away. When we arrived, the temperature was 68 and I felt silly walking out of the airport with a long coat, gloves, a hat and scarf on. All that to say, it was an interesting start to the trip, but I made it.

After that, the weekend is quite a blur (I attribute this to champagne and the fact that I am writing this post 8 months late, but mostly champagne). I was also terrible at taking pictures all weekend. Here is one from the first night I was there, outside waiting for a cab.

On Saturday night, Charlotte and Michele hosted a birthday dinner for Alicia. It was a beautiful night of friends, family, wonderful food and lots of laughter. 

 

november 2013

November flew by... along with camping and Thanksgiving, here are some of the other highlights:

Private Pat Green concert at an engineering event

Hunger Games Catching Fire midnight premier

I found this picture while going through some old pics, can not believe they were ever this small!

We made it to see Kelly's third and final elementary school musical, My Son Pinocchio Jr.

We met up with Rob, had his been at etiquette class, for fro-yo later that night. What handsome kiddos!

thanksgiving 2013