a year to celebrate

2011 was a great year. It was wonderfully busy and excitingly wonderful. It was full of surprises, love, and so many new things.

Here's the recap:

• In January I discovered Apple Cake and went skiing for the 1st time in about 10 years.
• In February I was a camp counselor at Snow Camp with ODBC and cooked Pad Thai for the 1st time.
• In March God taught me a lot about faith and trusting in Him for the future.
• In April God brought me to Grace Road church and I made this Clementine Cake!
• In May I bought a bike and started to bike to work!
• In June I spent a few weeks at Locust Hill preparing for and managing the Expo tent during the LPGA! woah
• In July I celebrated 6 years with Christ and on the very same day I met this man: 

• In August I went to Raleigh to visit my brother, paid off my car, and played tennis under the stars!
• In September I started dating that man officially and became busier than I've ever been before <3
• In October we went to NYC for a day and took a road trip to my favorite little town for a dear friends wedding.
• In November we stuffed our weekends with events and enjoyed Thanksgiving with family.
• in December we went to NYC on a rainy day, decorated for Christmas, celebrated my 27th birthday, and enjoyed the holidays immensely.
• It was the year I took a huge undertaking at work (read: managed the sponsor accounts and the Expo for the LPGA), rediscovered my love of photography, made some incredible new friends, and learned a lot about myself in Christ!
• And as I said... it was the year I met this man:

2012 will be a year of great things too:

Growing deeper in Christ.

Learning to make sushi.
And falling more in love with this life God has given me.