2010 In Review

2010 was a year of many great memories, some of which I noted below.  In retrospect I will make sure to take notes throughout 2011 so that I won't forget anything that happens.  Here is what I remember from the past 365 days...

• Mom’s surgery
• Laughing with my dad and sister during the many days we sat in the waiting room of ICU
• Alex and I becoming “official” BF and GF
• Destin beach trips

Wave-running in Destin.

• Electric lemonades in Scottsdale

Tasty drinks by the pool in Scottsdale.

• Seeing the opening ceremony of my companies International Summit

Ashlyn, Tony and I at Summit

• Thanksgiving at Alex’s grandmother’s house
• Hiking up Stone Mountain

Stone Mountain

• The Audi/VW expo in the Georgia mountains
• Buying (leasing) my car on the exact day that I closed on my townhouse a year earlier

• Alex surprising me with an entry way table for our anniversary
• Kickboxing
• Cutting 9 inches off my hair

9 inches gone

• Auburn football and being able to sit in the stands for the first time ever

Auburn vs. LSU game; Alex's first trip to Auburn

• Hearing “I Love You” for the first time
• Tubing down Chattahoochee River

Tubing

• Jay Z concert
• Celebrating my parents 50'th wedding anniversary
• Alex’s yellow sweater

I could always find him in a crowded room.

Concert time.

• OAR concert
• Getting my 8,000 first-time homebuyers credit after 8 months
• Rob carrying Alex up first flight of stairs and B and I having to push him up second flight
• Rolling Toomer’s

Toomer's Rolling

• Ice skating on my birthday
• My birthday dinner/rose decoration surprise
• Auburn going to National Championship
• Macy’s Christmas tree lighting

Macy's Tree Lighting at Lenox

• Scrambling for the new iPhone
• Waking up at beach with a swollen lip looking like someone punched me in the mouth
• Discovery of Huffington Post
• Tony and Katie’s wedding … the parents speeches
• Sunsets at the beach

The Sunsets at Destin are beautiful

• Netflix
• The show “Weeds”
• Modern Family
• Fun in the desert with Ashlyn

Desert fun with the co-workers

• Fun time pictures of the aquarium with Alex

Georgia Acquarium

• Snow on Christmas for the first time in my life (and first time in Winston-Salem in 40 years)