Recapping 2011!

It's that time of year again -- and honestly, I feel like I just wrote a recap of 2010? But apparently, 2011 is over, too!

So here we go...

January

The first of January meant that it was a big year for us because it was the year of our wedding! I bought my wedding shoes and reserved the boys tuxes. In non-wedding related news, we moved into Sean's parents house to save money for a house the wedding, it snowed an awful lot, and we celebrated my dad's birthday!

February

In February, I received something in the mail that was so special, Sean's band had their first show at the Palladium, we started our dance classes, went to our cake tasting & our food tasting, and spent a weekend in New York City.    

March

In March, I had my first hair trial, finally made some decisions and booked our honeymoon, had my amazing bridal shower & was featured on Jacin's Lovely Little Details blog, our invitations arrived in the mail, and we celebrated Sean's birthday. 

 April

In April, I realized I didn't love our wedding invitations, made our table numbers & love banner, traveled to Maine for Easter, took a countless amount of pictures with our table numbers in Maine for our seating cards, went away to New Hampshire for scrapbook weekend, and celebrated my cousin, Lizzie's, birthday.    

May

In May, I revealed what I did during my scrapbook weekend in April, continued having wedding nightmares, "ran" my first 5K and assembled my wedding invitations, mailed out those invitations, received some RSVPs, created my 101 in 1001 list and accomplished the first thing: hiking a mountain.  

June

In June, I found my something old, was obsessed with these socks, attended the Bruins parade, had so many to-do lists, got my something blue, tried not to get tan lines, did so many DIY projects, celebrated our anniversary, started my Montessori training and filed for our marriage license!  

 

July

In July, all the work and planning and time fell exactly into place and our wedding day arrived, I spent weeks recapping the wedding on this here blog, we bought our first large purchase together - a new car, celebrated my mom's birthday, my garden produced many zucchinis, spent a weekend in Maine, spent time with friends, and I finally started thinking about things other than the wedding.

 August

In August, we traveled to Ireland for our honeymoon, threw a ladies luncheon for my cousin Lindsey, celebrated our one month anniversary, I went back to work, Hurricane Irene took away our electricity for 3 days, and I spent the entire month recapping the wedding & the honeymoon. 

 September

In September, I recapped our summer, turned 25, saw my cousin Lindsey get married, got an acoustic guitar, was very excited about new Fall t.v. & clothes, saw Sean's friend get married, and spent lots of time with the dachshunds. 

October

In October, I was a bad blogger, went to the Cape for a girls weekend, carved pumpkins & finished my wedding album, got the new iPhone, got really excited for the new Twilight movie, started grad school, mother nature gave us our first Halloween blizzard (we had a snow day!) and gave out candy with the dachshunds.    

 November

In November, I was a realllly bad blogger, my husband surprised me with something terrific on a day that wasn't so terrific, I realized I don't take enough pictures, saw the new Twilight movie (twice!), Sean grew out his beard and was in the newspaper, celebrated Thanksgiving as a wife and had a marathon shopping event on Black Friday. 

 December

In December, we took pictures for our first Christmas card ever, had weekends filled with Taco Bell and gossip magazines, saw my friend get married, participated in my first ever blog link-up, hosted our annual cookie exchange, saw the Patriots play on Christmas Eve, spent lots of time with friends and family, and put a deposit down for a new apartment!  

I guess we had a busy year! How about you?

New York City

I've been pretty neglectful of the blog recently. I don't have an excuse.

Last weekend we went to New York City. We stayed in Times Square and the hotel was pretty nice. We enjoyed leaving the window open at night to listen to the screaming people/sirens/beeping NYC drivers below. There's no sarcasm there... we actually left it open in 20 degree weather because we thought it was that funny.


We went out to eat, a lot and walked around even more. We visited the Museum of Modern Art, walked through Central Park, had "the best chicken wings in NYC" from Atomic Wings, walked some more, spent $30 on a breakfast consisting of a muffin and some coffee, saw Rockefeller Center and went to "top of the rock", strolled through Times Square and walked even more. We took an enjoyable (?) ride on the subway and ate cupcakes at multiple bakeries. Did I mention we walked a lot, and it was in the teens (weather wise).

It was amazing but next year, we've decided we'll change it up a bit and go during April rather than February.

A little wedding, a little everything else.

So I find myself sick, again. Apparently, from June 16th to the wedding day I'm going to need to be in some type of quarantine situation- like in a plastic bubble. Seriously.

And I'm even more sad because this is a big weekend for me, us, Sean.

Of course, I could go on & on about our first dance class tomorrow which I'll probably have to reschedule because I can't stand for long periods of time, let alone... move around.

And of course, I could go on & on about our cake tasting on Sunday -- I'll be surprised if I'm even able to taste what I'm trying.

However! That's not really why I'm all that upset...

I'm upset because tonight. Friday, February 11th, 2011 - my fiance - the most important person in my whole world has a huge event to "attend". A sort of "life goal", if you will -- will be achieved. A dream will become a reality.

Maybe you know... maybe you don't -- the most fabulous person in my world is in a
band:

Widow Sunday.

Their CD:

And when someone who grows up playing guitar, writing music and playing in bands in Massachusetts -- gets the opportunity to play here:

the palladium in worcester.

...it's a really, big deal.

I know he's excited, and a little nervous - because, hello -- look at the artists that have shared that stage before...

50 Cent, Blink 182, Busta Rhymes, Cypress Hill, Deftones, Bob Dylan, Sean Paul, Filter, Foo Fighters, Fuel, Garbage, Godsmack, Hoobastank, Dropkick Murphys, Twiztid, Jay Z, Kanye West, Jimmy Eat World, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn, Meshuggah, Wu-Tang Clan, New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, New Found Glory, My Chemical Romance, All American Rejects, Fall Out Boy, Dashboard Confessional, Offspring, Papa Roach, Powerman 5000, Prince, Puddle Of Mudd, Opeth, Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, Sevendust, Simple Plan, Dope, Yellowcard, Slipknot, Hatebreed, Avenged Sevenfold, The Used, Coheed And Cambria, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, Unearth, Four Year Strong, The Acacia Strain

*I'm pretty sure the artists I highlighted and the ones he would have preferred to showcase are very much different.* ;)

But anyways...

While I prefer to listen to music that sounds a little more like this:



And a little less like this:


I have to admit that tonight is the most important, and most exciting thing in his world right now. So my sickness & musical interests aside (I'll be there, tonight!), and our wedding planning aside (for just a few hours!), tonight is all about him and how very excited and proud I am of him -- and for him.