2009 Year-in-review

So normally I do a year in review, and I'll take my best stab at it once again, due to my unemployment this year was fairly uneventful.

January,
We hosted an AWESOME (totally making fun of) HSM 3 party for Shirley! Brad turned a quarter of a century old!

February,
K and I got new piercings to celebrate K's B-I-G 2-5!

March,
I partied WAYYY too hard for my own good for my 25th, and ended up revisiting my dinner in the drive-thru of Taco Bell at 2am.

April,
Brad booked our flight for London and train to Paris. Oliver turned 1!

May,
Brad, Russell, and I all took a 10ish-day excursion to London. We went to visit Duff and Larissa! We saw the London Tower, Tower Bridge, British Museum, Abbey Road, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Parliament, and rode the London Eye. Brad and I went to Paris so I could mark off "See the Eiffel Tower at Night" from my life list. The Tower was beautiful! It was also pretty amazing to see at night! We took the Fat Tire Bike Tour around Paris, and highly recommend it when you go! Along the tour, we saw the Pantheon, Napoléon's Tomb, Louvre Museum, Musée D'Orsay, Tuileries Gardens, Champs-Elysées, and Arc de Triomphe. We went to the top of Mountparnasse Tower to get the best view of the Eiffel Tower, took a 4-5 hour tour of the Eiffel Tower, took a quick tour of the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa, and Aphrodite/Venus de Milo, saw the Cathedral(e) of Notre Dame, and we took an awesome tour of the Catacombs/Municipal Ossuary, and had some delicious glaces every evening! We had some serious camera complications, (that we later resolved in June). Brad and I got engaged!

June,
We took a road to recovery for finances and laid low again. I also got a job as an assistant pre-K teacher at a Child Development Center.

July,
We had our annual 4th of July celebration at the house, with water balloon's in full force. The VA Chap's came to visit, sans Logan, :( and we had another family reunion.

August,
K's Gram became very ill with cancer and we took a roadtrip to Houston for the weekend to visit. I finally got to see Galveston. We had our very first Buc-ee's experience and can't wait to go back!

September,
I quit my crappy job! K and I took one part of our teacher certification test and PASSED!!

October,
I attended a friend's, boyfriend's birthday party at the bowling alley and met my future BFF, Lucas! We had an awesome night after the bowling alley back at the "bros" house where we consumed cardboard! I didn't do anything cool for Halloween like visit Salem, but we had a low-key Halloween gathering at the house instead. We had a Roaring 20's flapper and gangster, Prince Charming with his Purple Princess, a French Frog, and Richie Tenenbaum in attendance.

November,
I perfected the traditional pumpkin roll, and celebrated two Thanksgivings with the Chap's and Webb's. The Movie Club commenced for it's second annual Midnight showing of Twilight: New Moon. The lines were ridiculously long compared to the previous year. We got in line at Macy's and it wrapped the other half of the mall all the way down to the theatre, we sat on the second row...

December,
We had a HUGE blizzard on Christmas Eve, record snowfall for the state of OK with like 16ish inches! The biggest snowstorm in my lifetime thus far!

Throughout the year Shirley and I kept Movie Club going strong and we took in quite a few movies over the year. Keep an eye out as we wither down our 2010 movie schedule!