What a year!!!!!!!!

My oh my, you guys cannot even begin to imagine the whirlwind year I had in 2011. Filled with so many ups and downs, I'm pretty confident someone could write a really good book/movie about my 2011.

January:

• I got to watch the Hogs play in the Sugar Bowl
• I started my inside sales job with Lennox.
• I met Tim at our national sales meeting <3

February:

• Tim and I started dating (what day? we don't really know)

• My parents split up

March:

• Tim came with me to Fayetteville to meet my friends and see the campus
• :-)

April:

• I interviewed for my Portland Territory Manager job
• Lil Wayne AND Kenny Chesney concert

• Tim and I moved in together

May:

• I traveled to Denver and Salt Lake City for work

• I was finally DONE with my 5 month training program

June:

• I got the job in the Portland!!!!
• I was gone in Salt Lake for more training before Portland
• I had about 10 days to find somewhere to live in Portland.
• We had to pack up EVERYTHING.
• most stressful month. i never want to go through that moving hell again. (that's a lie, because we will be coming back to TX one day)

July:

• We left Texas for our 3 1/2 day journey to the Pacific Northwest!
• July 5- we got the keys to our house.
• 3 weeks later our moving truck showed up. (we slept on an air mattress up until then)
• July 8- I got LILY!!!!

August:

• this was a lame month. but a GORGE-ous month! (get it? The Columbia River Gorge??) haha the weather was great in PDX

September:

• Mom and Marty came to visit us Labor Day weekend!

• We climbed Multnomah Falls
• Dad came 2 weeks later and we went to our first Oregon Ducks game!

October:

• My dreams came true and I got to see Chris Brown in concert :-) grrrrrr baby grrrrrr
• Brook's wedding in Memphis was AH-mazing!!!!!

• My mom got remarried the day before my birthday
• My birthday was a real harsh welcoming to the real world. I had to spend it in a hotel in Eugene for work. BLAH

November:

• My REAL dreams came true when Tim PROPOSED!!!!!!!

• I cooked the quickest Thanksgiving dinner I could (Tim had to work) but it was actually pretty good!

December:

• Tim's 25th birthday
• Vegas with mom and marty
• I signed my FIRST new business account at work!!!!!!
• My first christmas  away from my family.

• My frist christmas with Tim <3
• New Yorkkkkkkkkkk

phewwwwww! I dont know about y'all but I'm exhausted just reliving this past year. I'm hoping for a very calm, very NORMAL 2012.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!



Christmas Wrap-Up!

I'd like to say that a lot has been going on since my last post, but honestly I've just been working my ass off. I apologize to the 3 of you that actually read this for not updating it more regularly like I used to!!

So Christmas this year was totally different than any other year for a couple of reasons:

1. My parents are divorced thus making it a pain in the you-know-what about whose house to go to, how much time to spend where, blah blah

2. It's my first Christmas with Tim aka my SEXXXYYY fiancé

3. I decided to skip out on that awkward-ness that is my family to go to New York and spend the holiday with Tim's family.

BUT before I went to New York, I did get to see my mom the week before in Las Vegas. Mom's birthday is Christmas day and I felt bad that I wasnt going to be there for her. Thankfully she and Marty flew me out to Vegas to meet them. :-) Everybody knows how much I love Vegas!!

The people at the Palazzo know us REAL well :-)



love my momma!


NEW YORK: I was SO SO SO glad to be getting the hell out of Oregon for a bunch of reasons but one in particular was so that I could FINALLY spend some time with Tim. He has been working 90 hour weeks at the restaurant leaving no time for us to talk or just enjoy each other's company. However, this was our first time traveling together on a plane and for those if you that know Tim, knows that he does not do crowds or people in general. So, I knew there was no way we could get through security and to the gate without getting in an argument and damn if I wasnt right! After Tim's crankiness, we finally made it onto the plane and away we went! I made Tim sit in the middle seat and he and the lady next to him became sleeping buddies.

Hahahaha I couldn't help myself!

So after landing in Newark we had to make the train to Penn station to meet Tim's sister, Alison, to get on the next train all the way out to long island where Tim's dad was picking us up to drive anothere 30 min and FINALLY get to Tim's grandmother's house! It was a long day of travel!

The next two days were filled with food, wine, meeting the extended family, champagne, more wine, a nice walk down the beach, more food, and more wine! It was so nice and relaxing being at Tim's grandmother's house that I almost didn't want to leave but I knew we had a big day planned in the city and I was SO pumped for that!!!



tim was mid-blink! but i fell in love with these kids!





we did a lot of drinking

 NYC::::::  So Monday morning we left Laurel to head to the city with Tim's sister. We drove in straight to her apartment in Brooklyn to drop off our things before getting lunch. Thankfully we got front row parking in front of her place, so we ditched the car and got ready for my first NYC subway experience!! We took the subway to Times Square so I could take a few tourist pictures. Alison was cracking me up talking about the tourists (people like me) who just stand in the middle of the walkway taking pictures and hold up traffic. That woman walks with a PURPOSE! She was weaving through all kinds of traffic and I was snappin pics on the move so I wouldn't be one of "those people". haha it was hilarious.

After lunch we headed over to go see Avenue Q! It was absolutely HILARIOUS! It's like an adult parody of Sesame Street with a combination of people and puppets. Alison bought us the tickets for our christmas present and it was definitely something we'll always remember. GREAT GIFT!

I told Tim when we booked our tickets to New York that all I wanted for Christmas was a picture of us in front of the big Christmas tree in Rockefeller center... well folks, my wish came true!!!

Hope everyones Christmas was as wonderful as mine filled with love and happiness!!!

****WE'RE ENGAGED****



ahhhhhhhhhh

I'M ENGAGED!!!!!!

So I've only been freaking out for the last 3 hours but OMG y'all I'm getting married!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So by request, I was asked to post this with details of how it all happened. Don't get your hopes up it was NOT that exciting... but it was so us and so perfect.

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 14, 2011 3:45 pm

 I was at home at my desk (aka our kitchen table) just returning emails. no big deal. Tim came in the kitchen and was bein all sweet on me. If you know Tim, you know he's not the most affectionate person. So I started looking at the Christmas cookie magazine my grandma sent me. I pointed out these cookies and said "ooh don't these look good" THENNNNNNNNNNNN Tim said "yeah but this looks better" I turned around and ****BAM**** big beautiful ring IN MY FACE!

He got down on one knee (after I screamed WHAT!) and honestly I couldn't even begin to tell you what he said because all I could hear was my heartbeating the shit out of my chest but it ended with "so will you marry me" and I kissed him and said YES!!!!!!!!!!!  weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! He is absolutely the MAN of my dreams and I could not be happier to have him as my husband. did i really just say that? HUSBAND? ahhhhhhhhhhhh!



Tim's aggie ring he loves more than me... and my bling :-)



we couldnt take a picture right if we wanted to...

LET THE WEDDING PLANNING BEGIN!!!

WE ARE SO THRILLED :-)

It's been tooooo long!

I guess I forgot I had a blog I've been so lazy busy. So much has gone on since the last time I blogged I don't even know where to begin. I'll give a brief rundown:

• Dad came to Portland and it was AWESOME.
• Gunshots are still goin off in the ghetto
• Lily hates the rain and has decided that she doesn't wanna do her business outside, but in my closet
• Tim is still alive but I'm pretty sure he hates me for making him move to Portland
• Work is work.
• I went to DFW this past weekend had such a good time with my frands & family

But on a brighter note:

   We have booked our flights to go to NEW YORK for Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so pumped about this y'all have no idea. Tim's whole family, minus his parents, live in New York so it will be interesting to meet everyone and spend the holidays away from my dysfunctional psycho crazy family. Ahhh holidays :-)

3 DAYS UNTIL MEMPHIS for BP's wedding

7 DAYS UNTIL MY BIRTHDAY!

I LOVE OCTOBERRRRRRRRRRRRR!

make it a great day y'all!

XOXO

I have to get back to work :-(

My Portland Palace!!!!

Ok so I'm doing a lil remix version of What I'm Loving Wednesday.. Thursday edition.... get excited

I'M LOVING that my mom and Marty came in town last weekend. We had so much fun going to Multnomah falls, streetside cd shops, Downtown Portland, and fixing up my house. It was good to see my momma. Here are some of our pics:

lunch downtown on Sunday

Multnomah Falls

view from the top of the falls of the Columbia River Gorge

boo and I at the top!

Street side CD's anyone?

only 25cents what a bargain!

before our dinner

<3

group at Portland Prime

my sweet lil momma at lunch! :-)

I'M LOVING That now it's my daddy's turn to come visit NEXT weekend. Not quite sure what action we're gonna get into but it will be a fun time no matter what.

I'M LOVING That tonight is the first NFL game!!! I'm even more excited because this is the first year I have my OWN fantasy team..... WEEEEEE!!! My teamname is "I Touchdown There" (clever i know) and we're gonna win it all baby!!!!!

I'M LOVING how my house is FINALLY suitable to show pictures of. PLEASE keep in mind that as part of my lease agreement I was unable to paint my walls and that i would NEVER choose red and yellow as my wall color.

living room

my new "diva" chaise mom n marty got us

kitchen dining area

hallway to the bedrooms

guest room

brand new table and chairs :-) thanks mom n marty!

mom made me do this. i felt like it was the first day of school

and as always... I'M LOVING my wonderful boyfriend and our pups.

                                xoxo