Happy 2011!!

It's now 2011, and since 2010 was such as amazing year for me, I want my first blog to highlight some of the things from the previous year. I spent NYE 2010 with my best friend, Michele and her boyfriend, my boyfriend Luke, and my boyfriend's brother Kyle and his girlfriend in Atlanta. It was great fun and I felt that I couldn't have celebrated the eve of a new year with better people.

Night before NYE

Little did I know, in two weeks time, right as I started my last semester of college, my boyfriend that I loved and adored more than anything in the world would break up with me and I would be devastated beyond belief (don't hate him yet!). Two weeks after the boyfriend broke my heart, he came crawling back. Haha, and yes, I actually envision him crawling to my doorstep and even though that may not have actually happened, my pride says it did.

St. Patty's Day in Savannah

Graduation!

In May, Luke took me to celebrate my graduation and birthday in Mexico! It was the best vacation ever, and I loved every minute of it with him. Besides being my first time out of the country (if Mexico counts), Luke took me snorkeling for the first time and I loved it! This was surprising being that I will not step two feet into the ocean without running, in full panic back to shore. But, it was super clear water, and I was entranced with the beauty under the water. The fish and their colors were simply amazing! We followed a sea turtle swimming for a bit, which I adored! Don't get me wrong, I kept looking across the way under the water to such a distance that it became murky, and envisioning a shark coming to eat me, but thankfully this didn't happen.We also went sea kayaking-ummm, no thanks. I kept feeling like we were stranded at sea in that little kayak! Anyway, great scenery, great experiences, and all with my best friend and love!

Mexico

In late June, Luke found out he was moving to South Korea for his next assignment...which was my worst nightmare. Ughhh! It was a scary concept to me, but we decided that I would look for a job teaching English here, and if I found one, then I would come with him. So, in August I got hired at Sogang Language Program and began preparing for my first move out of the country.

On Thursday, October 28th, Luke asked me to be his wife!! I was beyond ecstatic and beyond shocked! It was the last thing I expected at the time and he did an amazing job planning the evening and keeping it all a secret from me! It was a day that I had thought about and wished for since I fell in love with him, and it was happening!! I was on cloud 9 and still am at this moment when I think about him being my HUSBAND! Ahhh :)

On November 8th, after a very long and painful period of preparation and paperwork and boxes and movers, we all (me, Luke, Zeus, and Fritz) boarded the plane to come to Korea...

In the car, on the way to Atlanta to board the plane!

 Preparing for landing in Korea!

Home Sweet Home for a year...

2010 was a year full of ups and downs, gaining and losing friendships, losing a love and getting it back again, seeing new things and realizing I no longer wanted to see some old things, moving on and moving up, crying and laughing, lots of reality and lots of dreaming, and some things living and some things dying. Some friendships were tested this year, which maybe happens often among friends or maybe it doesn't. I don't know. But some stood and some fell. I am content knowing that the ones that mattered, stood, and always will stand. I take the good with the bad in life because I know that there are many storms, and behind the storms, there will always be the sun.