A QUARTER CENTURY OLD!!!! WHAT??? OH, Good Luck with that!!!!

Tanner is officially a quarter of a century old!!! Friday night we cooked out and invited our family over to join us. We had such a great time and I am so greatful that we have such a wonderful family. We spent Sat afternoon riding the boat and enjoying the beautiful weather at the lake with our friends. We then ended the night by cooking out at the lake house and enjoying drinks at the tiki bar!!!! Tanner was ready to go home by midnight!! This proves my point that he is officially O.L.D (but hey old men are sexy)!!!LOL

St.Pat's in 5 points

For the last five years Tanner and I have tried to make it to St. Pat's in five points. Every year something occurs to stop us from going whether it be a birthday party for our nieces (both are born on St. Pat's day) or rainy weather. This year the weather was beautiful and birthday parties postponed a week. We finally made it!!!! I will say I had a lot of fun with my friends who joined and seeing people I haven't seen in years. However, places charging to use the restroom was a bit ridiculous... Things that I learned for next year include green beer is fabulous, Starbucks closes that day in 5 pts, there is a free bathroom at the music store!!! LOL

MMM Good!!!

Today was an extremly crazy day!!! I have been very fortunate this year and was blessed with such a great class. Today, it seemed that almost all of my students had been abducted by aliens... Fortunately, for me, I have an amazing husband, who realized I was having a stressful day and took it upon himself to make dinner for me. I have been on this healthy cooking/healthy lifestyle kick for about two months now and I know it can't be easy for Tanner, who loves anything fried and greasy, but he has been a real tropper!!! Tonights dinner consisted of turkey burgers (not premade or store bought), mushrooms and peppers, sweet potato fries and a nice large glass of water!!! I know Tanner would have preferred to eat regular fries and a big large greasy burger but he made it healthy for ME!!!! This will be added to the list (which I will give him on our 50th wedding anniversary) of the million things I love about him!!!

Oh the joys of living in SC!!!

I would love to say that most of the time I am not a big fan of South Carolina however the last two weekends I have very much become a fan!!! I finally felt like I had an actual winter last weekend when it snowed 7 inches!!! It was absolutly beautiful!!!! Tanner and I had our friends come over we all bundled up in our winter gear and went outside to have the absolute best snowball fight in the history of snowball fights. Britt-no and I made snow angels and I nailed Pot and Tanner with a hundred snowballs. LMAO....Then this weekend it was 66 degrees and sunny!!!! I did some much needed yard work and relaxed... Only in SC can you have two incredibly different weekends in the same month! :)

AHH Christmas Break Where did you go???

The last two weeks have flown by so fast it is ridiculous! I am very glad to have chosen a profession in which I get two weeks off during the holidays and nine weeks off during the summer. However, it would be nice if those weeks went by really really slowly as oppose to flying by. Tomorrow my life goes back to normal. No more sleeping in, playing on the computer, lunch with the pals, etc. Instead my days will now consist of 5:00am wake up calls, packed lunches, and being to exhausted to even look at a computer at the end of the day! AHHH the joys of being a teacher. If you think teachers have it easy because they get off work "early" and have "vacation" please be advised to never make such a comment to a teacher. We don't get out early!!! I spend anywhere from 9-10 hours a day at work and my job is not the type of job where you can just leave and forget it until the next day. I do love my job and I really missed my kids but like anyone else I would not mind another couple days of sleeping in and relaxing.

Welcome 2010

2009 was a great year for Tanner and I. It has been a year of ups and downs (mostly ups). We have discovered a lot about ourselves as individuals as well as a couple and everyday we learn something new about each other. I am looking forward to all the years to come and mostly looking forward to all the things we will learn about each other in 2010. I hope that 2010 will bring us the same amount of joy and hapiness that 2009 did if not more!

Below I have listed some of our top 5 moments of 2009.

1. Becoming Mr. & Mrs. James Tanner Garrick

2. Spending time with our family and friends

3. Honeymoon in the Dominican Republic

4. Lazy Sundays when its just Tanner and I

5. Buying our new house!!!!

(however the repairs part not so much!LOL)

Christmas 2009

Christmas day was busy busy!!! Tanner and I woke up opened gifts (I got a wii Fit. Tanner got new waders) then the craziness of the day started! We headed to my parents house to open gifts with them. I know I am 23 years old and still don't let my parents start opening Christmas gifts unless I am there. It's kind of silly but it is something that I enjoy every year with them. Sofi and I had a great Christmas thanks to Mom and Manny!!!! Love you guys. We spent the rest of the morning at Tanner's brothers who was kind enough to make breakfast for everyone. Then we went and ate lunch with my bros and I watched them attack T-man with their airsoft guns!!! It was a great Christmas but also a little tiring!!! Hope everyone else had a great Christmas as well.