Hello and yay for a new calendar! My mom and I started the year off on the "right foot" by taking a walk on Delta States fitness trail. It was windy, but it felt good to get outside and exercise. Last night we watched the ball fall in New York via TV. Even though it was 11:00pm our time, we were not feeling up to staying up another whole hour. We were all in bed before midnight our time. I guess you could say we were lacking in the celebration department, but we looked at as being ready to tackle the new day. I mean, all of the Leininger men had to be rested in order to get up to duck hunt at 4:30am. I'll have to do a post on that craziness some other time. Maybe one day this year...
On another note, I feel the need to look back on 2010. After all, many fairly significant events took place.
Warning: this is a long post and I understand if some of you do not want read all of it. I am doing this for the sake of documentation, so Casey and I can remember what has happend. If you do make it all the way through this post - congratulations in advance!
The year started off with two of our college friends (Will and Haley) getting married the very first weekend in January. This is a picture of another one of my college friends, Grayson, who was a bridesmaid in the wedding.
Casey and his Papa built our cupcake wedding cake stand. This is right after it was built, before we knew what color we were going to paint it. It ended up being white with a light green ribbon trim.
Casey and I celebrated our two year mark for our dating relationship on March 25. He suprised me with two dozen roses, and a date to Leetha's BBQ. If you haven't had Leetha's then you haven't had BBQ according to many people in our area.
My sweet college Roomie (Amy) also my maid of honor, threw me a really fun shower. She is quite crafty! This is a picture of the party favor bags. They were filled with chocolate covered pretzels she had dipped, because they are some of my favorite treats.
Mom had some really pretty Easter cookies made.
Another thing Mom did was register downtown with me. Picking out my dishes was fun - this is my place setting in Neysa's Fireside Shop.
Roomie suprised me with Gerber daisies, and wrote a note telling me that I was getting closer to getting married. (Butterflies fluttered in my stomach of course.) Gerbers were the main flower at our wedding.
Casey and I received our Luckyday Scholorship stoles from the founder's wife along with the rest of our Luckyday classmates.
Elizabeth was one of those classmates.
This is one of the last pictures Case and I took at USM before we graduated. It was at our Luckyday Service Team awards banquet.
Here is a picture with my faithful study buddy Emily. I probably would not have graduated with the GPA that I did without her!
About four weeks after we graduated we got married on June 5th. That was one full weekend!
Here is the gang.
We could hardly believe the day had come.
We went on our honeymoon in Fort Walton, Florida. We had a great time! As you can see, I got sunburned...
When we got home, we had to tackle our messy apartment. Our storage closed looked like this.
Just keepin' it real here...
Over time, I organized it to look like this for my sanity.
I bought a dresser from a flea market and Casey helped me redo it. Just for the record, that is not a curse word on the masking tape. It used to say damaged.
We like how it looks now.
After we finished the dresser, I was encouraged to continue being crafty. (We'll have to see how that progresses in the coming years.)
I also wrote a boat load of thank you notes over the course of about 6 months. I hope I am not the only bride that took that long to finish all of them.
We enjoyed our season tickets to Southern Miss home games.
One of the last events that took place in 2010 was Casey and I running/walking because we didn't really train for the St. Jude Half marathon. I seriously trained and ran the same one a couple of years ago and was able to thoroughly enjoy it. This year it was a different story. We were limping for days afterwards. Without question, if I ever do a third one I will train for it properly again.
Here is a picture of us before the race - we look very sleepy.
That wraps it up for me and the year 2010! Is it sad that those are most of my pictures from the year? That is one of the reasons I started blogging. It motivates me to take pictures!
I just want to leave you with the scene that is currently happening in the Delta right now.
Happy New Year to Y'all!
