Good Bye 2011 - hello 2012!

This New Years Michael and I are laying low. Poor guy has been really sick the past couple days and has to be at work at 6 am tomorrow morning anyway. I actually spent today shopping and reading. Finished the first Hunger Games book and I am in love! Picking up the next two tomorrow.

2011 was a decent year for me. Heres to hoping that 2012 is an even better year. Here is a recap of my year!

January:
Spent New Years at home relaxing with my then fiance. We traveled to Pa as we do every Jan for the Orthodox Christmas. We got stuck in the Philly airport while Atlanta got hit with a horrible ice storm that trapped people in their homes for a week. I also turned 24. Michael also began his MBA program.

February:
Nothing stands out too important. Michael did send me flowers at work for Valentines day :)

March:
Softball started. Michael and I both play in multiple softball leagues. We continued to plan for the wedding. Nothing really stands out, we both just worked a lot.

April:
More wedding planning!

May:
Hot Atlanta weather kicked in! This summer was brutal. I felt like we did something for Memorial Day, but I dont remember.

June:
Michael turned 30! We traveled to Pa for a bridal shower the weekend of his birthday. I planned a surprise party for him while we were up there. With the help of his sister, parents and good friends. My parents traveled up there with us. They stayed at a bed and breakfast in a nearby cute town that resembles Savannah. They really enjoyed it.

July: 
Our busy summer continued. My mom and I traveled to Chicago for another bridal shower. My wonderful cousin (well kinda - our moms are cousins) threw the party for me :) We went 4th of July weekend, which is also my moms birthday. Michael and I continued to wrap up plans for the wedding.

August: 
This was a really busy month! I was super busy at work and wedding planning. We back to Pa for Michael's cousins wedding. We had a blast. We took a long weekend trip. At the end of the month my parents threw us a couples shower.

September: 
The beginning of the month was very busy! I got to travel for work for the first time :) I went to Houston for work then flew from Houston to Indy for my cousins wedding. Had a good time seeing my side of the family. I love traveling to Indy. There is something about my aunts house that is so welcoming. Its my dream house. At the end of the month Mike and Jess (our best man and matron of honor) came in town to help us prepare for the wedding. We had a great time showing them Atlanta. Plus it was great to be able to talk to Jess who has been married for a couple years.

October:
We got married! It was a crazy beginning of the month. We went on our honeymoon in the middle of the month. We did a cruise out of Puerto Rico. We liked out ports of call, but the cruise was only ok. I wouldnt recommend Puerto Rico, but one of our stops, Barbados was absolutely beautiful! I would 100% go back. We got to snorkle (my first time) and swim with turtles. Poor Michael had a slight cold and was all stuffy and couldnt snorkle well.

November: 
Had our first married Thanksgiving. Which is exactly the same as our past thanksgivings :) We have just been working and relaxing trying to recoop from the wedding madness.

December:
I got our house ready for Christmas and have been working like crazy! Michael has been referring a lot of basketball games. He referrers high school basketball.

In 2012 we have lots of plans and I cannot wait to see what the year holds. Lets hope the Mayan calendar is wrong, because I am really excited for the next year. My overall goal is to be a better person overall. Stop being lazy and really take care of myself and my family.

New Years Resolutions

I have never been one for new years resolutions, but this year I am going to make some and stick to it by god! Here are my goals for 2011:

1. Be Healthy! This is one of the most important to me. I am currently at my heaviest weigh I have ever been at. Every doctor I see (there is a handful) tells me I need to loose weight. I would ideally like to loose 50 lbs by my wedding (Oct. 9th in case you didnt know). But to me it isnt about the pounds, its about health. I need to get healthier. I need to eat healthier (cut out the fast food) and work out more. I just want to fit into my clothes and stop buying new clothes just because everything else doesnt fit. I was always a skinny kid, when puberty hit and I gained a lot of weight in 8th grade my mom was shocked. She told me she thought I would never have to worry about my weight (she and my brothers are naturally skinny), but instead I got my dads genes. I joined softball in 8th grade and played for years, so again I never thought about weight or working out. I was healthy because of playing. So after high school I stopped playing softball and now then I am in a desk job I am defiantly a lot less active and need to jump on it. I am going to use this blog to post about my weight lose journey. I will post pictures and hopefully it will push me to stick with it!

2. Pull the stick out of my butt. This may sound silly, but I have a tendency to be rigid and boring. I need to learn to relax and go with the flow more. My fiance is great at that!

3. My last goal this year is to be better with money. I have come a long way from a couple years ago. Michael was a big part of that. I stopped hiding and lieing about money. There are no secrets. Sometimes I make mistakes when it comes to money, but it isnt the end of the world. But I need to be better with budgeting and buying random crap. Michael and I have a goal of paying off our credit cards, the wedding and save money this year.

What is your goals for 2011? Are they more about in inner you or vanity?