Saturday, December 31, 2011

2011 in Review

Can't believe today is the last day of the year!! I feel like it has flown by!! Here is a snapshot of 2011...

January- January 6th I turned 22! whoo!! But really it was nothing exciting. After 21 nothing exciting happens.

February- Sean had his senior swim meet at the CRWC and I won my iPad! Also, Sean had his Big Ten Championship meet up in Minneapolis...his last meet as an Iowa swimmer. It was sad but also exciting! My mom and I went up there to watch. The Hawks swam great!!


fight song after the senior meet


Katie, Sean, and Pat

Katie, Pat, Chris, and Abby. Chris are you really wearing a shirt that says IOWA??
the cool fog over the diving well the last day at Big Ten's
lunch at the restaurant at the hotel


March- March 12th-19th we went on our spring break trip! Oh yeah and we got engaged :) March 14th


right after Sean proposed
loving the beach
family


digging in the sand
group picture!
sunrise

April- April 5th we booked the Enrichment center for our venue! April 11th we booked Christiani's. Then we celebrated being together for 3 years on April 27th.

They day we signed up for the enrichment center
before a bridal show
May- May 22th Sean graduated from the University of Iowa with a BBA in Management Information Systems. May 19th we booked our photographer, Caleb Jamin. May 20th I bought my dress! May 21st-May 27th I went to Key West with the girls from my family (minus Zoey), Diane, Jill, and Jana. It was a blast!!

Sean's graduation day

Key West sunset

cousins


group picture at sunset
our bikes

view from the highest point at Key West

June- Sean started his internship with HNI corporation and on June 2nd I started this blog :) June 4th Sean's sister, Abby, bought me my wedding shoes! June 9th my grandma (on my dad's side) passed away :( After the funeral we made our way back to Iowa for my cousin's wedding; Nathan got married to Emily on June 11th! June 18th-25th I spent in Utah for a Substance abuse conference for school.

Abby, Ashley, Adam, and Garrett
Me, Abby, Sean, and Alex
Garrett kiss
Nate and Emily June 11th
Salt Lake City, Utah :)


Mountain top

on the side of a mountain :)
(partial) group picture

Native American dancers at the picnic

July- We spend the weekend of July 4th up in Spirit lake with Sean's family and we started our 1 year countdown...


Avery at the lake
Sean and I caught a fish in our pajamas

August- I vacationed down at the Lake of the Ozarks with my mom's side of the family the first week of August. August 4th we bought the bridesmaid dresses! We had our engagement pictures taken on the 6th. We had our engagement party on the 13th! Also in August we moved into our current apartment with my sister Ashley, Sean started his masters program through UIU, and I started my 2nd year in pharmacy school. And, my sister Ashley got engaged to Adam on the 30th.




engagement party

September- September 23rd Sean started to work full time at HNI corporation

October- We had a meeting with our decorator, Missy, and we sent out our save-the-dates.


November- We made it to both families Thanksgivings

December- I'm officially half way done with the "class" portion of my PharmD program! December 20th Sean turned 23! That sounds so old! We also made it Christmas at both families again! Sorry still going to post about Christmas, but I've been busy working full time as part of my program...

Monday, December 26, 2011

(almost) our color

I hope everyone had a great holiday with family and friends! I'll post pictures and such later of ours', but I wanted to make a quick post about something else... a couple weeks ago Pantone released the color of 2012. It's called Tangerine Tango. It's kind of a coral-ish color, but maybe just a little too orange. I'd say it's definitely close and in our color "range"!



Since the release, I have seen so many websites/blogs write about or use this color like here, here, here, here, and here. There is even lip gloss called "tangerine tango"!

My mom totally called it! Earlier this fall I was getting discouraged about finding neat ties for our wedding; my mom kept reassuring that the color was going to be big again next year in the spring and she was right.

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Merry Christmas

So far we have both enjoyed being home with our families. Last night all of Sean's family came over and had dinner with us at my house (more on that later). But, we wanted to wish everyone a merry Christmas!


Saturday, December 17, 2011

ugly Christmas sweaters

All done with finals and it feels awesome. Congrats class! We're P2.5's!!

And so, with the end of the fall semester means Class of 2014 annual ugly Christmas sweater party!!

here is a review from last year...


class of 2014 love


I won 2nd place last year! Thank you grandma for the awesome puff paint sheet music sweatshirt!! I had to do a cat walk down the aisle and I wanted to forfeit but my friends wouldn't let me :)

And this year...

Winner from last year crowning this year's winner. The winner was rocking a sailboat sweater, a turtle neck with a skiing penguin, and a sexy comb-over! Plus his catwalk was priceless!

Katy, I, and Dani

ladies in semi-matching sweaters

2nd place winners with the "trophy"! loving the plaid pants!!

partial group shot

Can't wait 'till next year!