Happy New Year!

Okay, so I stink at keeping this thing up to date, but since it's the new year, I felt it was time to finally add a quick post. :-)

Seth and Rosie with the Christmas stockings, and you can see my VT pj pants (originally intended for Seth) in the background as I cook!

Last semester was amazing! I had the best professors ever, and I looooooved Peds and Neuroscience-- so much fun! I can't wait for next semester, when there's more about treatments. I've gotten to work at CARES, too, which I loved. Seth's had a great semester time, too. He has an awesome place of employment, normal hours, time to spend with me, is back-ish into climbing (which will be better when the Charleston Bouldering Gym opens in March!), and had a fun Christmas party! I also got to use my sewing machine and made us all stockings (see above). We did an online Christmas card, and if you missed it and would like to see it, click here and enjoy!

We had a wonderful Christmas, although we discovered that we will never, ever, if there is any way around it, EVER go to the Children's Mass again. Kids are cute, but that was painful. We went to Christmas service again on Christmas morning with the McFarland Parents, which was not like normal service, but let them see our church, so, yay. :-) Seth was the bestest husband in the whole wide world and got me a Nook Tablet for Christmas with my parents! I <3 it an insane amount. My cover for it comes in on Tuesday, so I can actually leave the house with it! Rosie's tried to step on it already, so I'm a little paranoid, even with the awesome warranty that saves it from me (inevitably) dropping it. Rosie got an awesome present too....

She carries this rawhide bone candy cane everywhere she can.

My parents are coming into town this coming weekend, too! I am so excited. They'll be here for Seth's birthday, so we'll go somewhere fun to celebrate. I might make more champagne cocktails for his birthday to go along with his pie! We had a low-key New Year's, watching HIMYM and White Collar and playing a round of Cribbage on my eternally awesome cribbage board. I made us Seth's traditional-ish New Year's meal with greens, black eyed peas, and cornbread, and made the greens actually tasty since I could look up a recipe beyond "warm in the microwave." Last year was spent in a hotel room in Nashville, so cooking was limited, but we've been blessed to have two awesome years in a row! After Christmas, we spent a couple days with the McFarlands spending time around Charleston, including seeing the Angel Tree for the first time.

I don't believe in New Years resolutions, so all I'll say is I hope 2012 is just as fun as 2011-- I'm looking forward to finishing up with classes in about a year and starting my OT rotations! Seth and I will be celebrating our 3rd wedding anniversary, and we'll be back in DC for Seth's bother's wedding, so we'll get to hopefully see some of our friends and Seth's family. Also, I am still growing out my hair, which should be long enough to donate in (hopefully) a few months. No matter what, we're going to live our lives as best we can and enjoy our time together. <3