Alabama Style

Check that out. Wow. These girls were waiting at the hotel to greet us as we checked into the conference-- it's a joke, right? LMAO!

A friend told me I'm not allowed to make fun of Arkansas anymore since I've never seen these stylish outfits here. :-)

coolest law firm ever

I just got home from a long girl's weekend in Mobile, Alabama. I attended the national conference for JA. I'm a member of our local chapter and jumped at the chance of attending the conference when I was invited.I have tons of pics and stories that I'll post later this week-- but first wanted to share this.

One of the girls (5 of us went on the trip) has a friend that lives in Mobile. Her husband has a law firm downtown they recently purchased and renovated. It used to be a bar and they kept the actual bar in the lobby of the firm. It was such a cool building!! They keep a few beers on tap and we had a blast playing behind the bar and acting as bartenders. :-) Anyway, hope everyone had a great weekend. I'm trying to play catch up on laundry and housework-- being away for a few days really throws off my schedule!

2009 My Year in Review

I started doing these posts a few years ago- it's fun for me to look back at everything that has happened and I've documented over the past year on my blog.

Here we go!

January:

We rang in 2009 with our new friends Matt, Amy & Fitz. Dinner at an Irish pub and watching VH1- best metal bands of all time! haha!

Connor was finishing up boot camp and we got our first glimpse of him as a Marine:

and then he graduated!

I also got one of these:

and it changed my life.

February:

Connor came home!

I finished my Bible study class:

Mike survived the Walmart layoffs... I dyed my hair... yeah February was kind of uneventful.

March:

We were able to start enjoying the awesome Spring weather at the lake in our neighborhood:

We adopted this guy! (and renamed him Marty McFly- much better than his former name "Salem")

 And probably the thing I'm most proud of this year---I became VEGAN!

April:

I got to spend time with my favorite girls in the world:

and to make it even better I got to see Britney with Allison!!

I fell in love with this picture: haha, yes I'm lame...

I took an amazing trip with Mike, and had lots of fun convincing him to do uber-dorky things:

I was very sad over the passing of Bea Arthur:

May:

Super excited over our new dining room table!

We went to North Caroline for my BIL's law school graduation:

and then on to a fabulous vacation to Lake Lure/aka where they filmed The Last of the Mohicans & Dirty Dancing!

June:

Ummm holy sh*t, I turned 30. And I got some gorgeous flowers:

I reconnected with a high school BFF:

Connor graduated from Marine Military Police school:

and got to come home on leave for a few weeks.

We held the first annual Solano-Farrar garage sale and made some cash:

We had a family road trip and took Connor to St. Louis. He shipped out to Okinawa and we won't see him again for at least another year. :-(

I'm so thankful we got to spend some time together before he left. I miss him like crazy.

Mike and I went to Trek Expo! It's our yearly nerd trip and we have a blast:

July:

We redecorated the office and I was thrilled to get new desks!

Jack Bauer started his obedience training!

Mike took me to see Legally Blonde the Musical! So fun!!

August:

We went floating on the Elk RIver:

We became obsessed with these guys:

I began the looooong process of scanning in our old family photos:

I started decorating for Halloween (yeah, I jumped the gun a little bit on this one)

My mom was awesome and went and saw Brit with me (that's right, I saw her twice! haha!)

I tackled some major house projects: recovering a chair, laying a new kitchen floor and redoing our guest bathroom:

Mike and I took a road trip to see the Kings of Leon. Best concert ever.

My mom & I made our annual trek to the Tulsa State Fair:

My parents came up for the weekend and we hit up a few arts & crafts festivals:

Mike and I kicked ass at our friends annual Halloween party! I won Best Costume:

and Mike won Most Original Costume:

November:

I started decorating for Thanksgiving:

I read (and LOVED) this book:

This picture made me giddy:

We celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary!

I saw this a few times:

We took a road trip to Branson for some Christmas shopping:

I decorated for Christmas:

December:

I chopped off a foot of hair!

we sent out our Christmas cards:

and went on a Caribbean cruise:

WOW!! Longest post ever!! If you made it this far, I applaud you. haha! We're looking forward to a great New Year's Eve with Matt, Amy & Fitz! It's becoming a tradition. :-) Hope everyone has a fantastic 2010!!