A Look at Us: Another Year Gone

Well tomorrow is the last day of 2009! So much has happened this year, yet it seems to have been a pretty mild year. Here are some of the highlights from our year!

1. I graduated college.

2. Michelle got married

3. The Massie's finally got moved into their home!

4. Pat started his senior year and got an awesome internship.

Like I said nothing earth shattering but still exciting none the less. Maybe it is all the small moments that make up the important things.

Christmas was wonderful of course. I got some much needed clothes for teaching, as well as a mixer and grill for the new house (whenever we get one) and Country Rock Band (I almost have all the songs played on the guitar!) Pat got a tool set, some clothes and other odds and ends. He still has to open presents from my family which will probably happen this weekend.

For New Year's we are heading to Columbus to go out with Mike and Katie. We are going to do a dinner and a movie which I am pretty excited about because I wasn't really looking to do anything to extravagent and this is just perfect plus we usually have a really good time with them.

Well we are getting closer and closer to the deadline of June 19th! I really need to get to making some final decisions especially with softball coming up and we will have games pretty much everyday starting March 31st (weather permitting). The invitations that Pat and I both agreed on (we were shocked too) were a little out of our price range in my opinion. We were hoping to make them but aren't sure that will work and looked a couple other places but they were still pricy, especially when most people will probably just throw them away. So anyways we have been looking at a couple other options but we can't agree on any other ones. After some searching today however I think I have found a solution. There is a cartridge for the Cricut machine (a scrapbooking tool) that has the shape we need. The problem, which of course there has to be one, is that it was only released in a special bundle through Home Depot. Well after more investigating it is being released later in January more globaly so we are hoping to get one then. I looked on Ebay for some and they are selling them for almost $200! These things normally sell for $40 so we will not be bidding on any of those. Hopefully though we can get a cartridge and it will work out and we will get the invitations we want yet!

The other big thing we need to get done is the bridesmaids dresses. The problem we have with that is getting Michelle and Jennifer to both be able to try some on! I know what I have in mind but I would still like to have them try them on to see what they look like. Once that is done it is just the decorating that we need to get pinned down and then I think it will be smooth sailing from there, cross my fingers.

Well I think that is all for 2009, here are some pictures from our Christmas holiday.

The present I made Kristal