2009 a highlight reel

In the midst of it all — there were a few moments of fun here and there too! Some of these are phone pho­tos — I’m so thank­ful for FB for the ease of event chro­nic­ling! (oh my, I just made a public proc­li­ma­tion of thanks to facebook…)

In March, our friend Alli­son & I plan­ned and exe­cu­ted (really really well) a 6 course wine din­ner. We could not have done it without the fabu­lous exper­tise of our friend Annie and it was a hugely suc­cess­ful sur­prise 31^st birth­day for Nichole.

In June my baby tur­ned 9 and ate at least as many ribs at the Rock n’ Rib fest. My nephew tur­ned 2! (um, I think I left my camera at home that day..)

In July I tur­ned 31. I was now offi­cially ‘in my 30’s’

In Sep­tem­ber, WE BOUGHT A HOUSE! (and moved and pac­ked and all that fun stuff)

My mom and dad tur­ned 50 in fall and threw a HUGE bash in the back­yard with a pig roast cate­red by my brother, a tent & a live band! (That’s daddy in the far back right cor­ner on gui­tar) Happy Birth­days mommy & daddy!

We found a few minu­tes to go to the Deer­field fair (our favo­rite by far!) … He looks taller than me in this photo. That is not the case. Yet.

In Octo­ber Nichole’s mum & step­dad came out from NM to visit our neck of the woods. We star­ted with the House of Blues Sun­day Brunch.

And ven­tu­red into the great north for some color and adventure.

We spent Thanks­gi­ving at Allison’s with her family (and pro­bably more wine than people… )

In early Decem­ber we went off to the Fes­ti­val of Trees for the first time — it was really cute! I enjo­yed all the dif­fe­rent sce­nes and crea­ti­ve­ness! That tree is alllllll tiny paper cut-​outs. That boy is mine, but he’s quite lovely so I like to take pic­tu­res of him.

Mid Decem­ber mar­ked Reed’s 2^nd birth­day! I can’t believe how fast it all goes. He had this ADORABLE cake from Chrissy’s Cakes and blew out the cand­les when no one was loo­king. HAHA.

2 1/​2 year old nephew Killian & 6 month old niece Avery!

Lexi & Reed’s friend Abby

One more post for Christ­mas, but I think that’s most of the key points of 2009! Glad to have caught up the blog through the new year .. now let’s get 2010 caught up before it’s 2011!

~Melis­sa­Ko­ren