Hey Yall,
I am officially the worst blogger on the planet. I log onto blogger to catch up with everyone I follow on a weekly basis but I haven't posted in FOREVER.
For my faithful followers, THANK YOU for sticking with me. I have said it before but, my goal is to post monthly in 2013.
Hopefully the Bakers life will be interesting enough to blog about on a monthly basis. For those of you who are interested, I am going to do a quick month by month summary of 2012, which all together was a fabulous year and I cannot believe it's already 2013! Forgive the wordiness of the post and lack of pictures. I will do better in my future posts=)
January
January started off with a bang and a new business venture for me. I had been contemplating for some time and finally took the plunge with Stella&Dot. I had an amazing launch and successfully started off 2012 with several parties on the calendar. January also started with a bang for B, but not in such a great way.
As many of you know or don't know B is a State Certified Residential Real Property Appraiser. In simple terms, he's one of the best in the state and yes I'm bragging that my hubby rocks! Anyway, back to why his January started with a bang and not such a good one. Part of being an appraiser means that he spends a LOT of time in the car and doesn't always get oil changes when he should. Let this story be a lesson to us all to keep up with oil changes. Long story short, B gunned it to get thru a light on New Years Eve and heard a not so very good noise from his beloved Camry's engine. As it turns out his engine was totally destroyed and needed to be replaced or rebuilt. Due to the car's age(it was a 2000) we elected to have it rebuilt and cost us a pretty penny none the less.
February
Not a very exciting month at the Bakers but we celebrated our 4th Valentines' together complete with Ferguson's filets. I have to do small sales plug here for Ferguson's meat market. They are located out just passed where 400N ends and I promise it's worth the haul to go there for your meats. Their filets are amazing and melt in your mouth. Their bratwursts are the ones that B and I serve every year at our annual kick off party and they are always a huge hit. Check them out at http://fergusonsmeatmarket.com/ I promise you will be glad you did!
March
March was a bittersweet month at the Bakers. We planned to venture to Las Vegas for my spring break but as you may recall reading, January was a pricey month for the Bakers. Rebuilding B's engine in his car as well as my decision to sell Stella&Dot jewlery meant that the Vegas money was gone. Despite a hopeful beginning trip to the airport ended in bitter disappointment that we would not be able to unload our tickets and get a refund. Alas, a lesson learned in being a grown up, life is not always fair.
April
April brought about sunshine and fun times for the Bakers. After an expensive not so great March, April was a welcomed change! April is always a fun month for us because we take part in the Inman Park Festival. Thanks to our fabulous photographers and cousins, (www.ptproofs.com) we were able to volunteer at beer truck with a prime location then drink free beer and walk around the festival the rest of the day. Another sales plug but a worthy one, if you are looking for a photographer for your wedding check Sandra and Greg Scott at Picture This. Yall they are the BEST photographers in Atlanta, perhaps the USA, and no I'm not just saying that because we are cuzins:)
May
May was an exciting month for the Bakers and Lamberths alike.
My baby sister, who's not really a baby but very much a D.V.M now graduated from the University of Georgia's Veterinary Medicine program on May 5th. That's right, my sister is officially Dr. Olivia C. Lamberth, D.V.M. She is practicing at Powers Ferry Animal Hospital and rocking it.
May also brought about B's 30th birthday and my 28th. Yes, we share our birthday, May 16th, a blessing and a curse at the same time:) Since it was a "big" birthday for B, we decided to travel to our favorite city, CHARLESTON for the weekend. Thanks to Frank Harris, our beloved Silver Dollar bartender and friend, we had too much to drink on our birthday and a killer hangover to begin our next year of life. We also enjoyed an amazing birthday dinner at Peninsula Grill. It was in my top 5 of meals I have had! I even ate a bite or 3 of shrimp and yall know how much I detest shrimp!
June
June brought about some welcomed changes for the Bakers.
The highlights of June included Huey Lewis' 6th birthday, accepting a job to return The Preschool , spending a week with the Metzner girls and began another summer of full time nannying for the Birkels. I began June by spending a week with precious Ella and Finley as their parents vacationed in the Caribbean. The girls and I spent lots of time at the pool, Monkey Joes, HippoHop, and watching WildKrats. The girls are adorable and growing so quickly, it's hard to believe Ella will be 5 in May!!! I was blessed to spend my summer with all 3 Birkel children, Fenn who was a little over 1 year old, Charlsie(9) and MaryMac(11). We had a fun summer full of pool time, playing mini golf, baking and lots of other fun times.
June would not be June without a wedding and what a wedding we attended! We spent a lovely weekend up at Lake Toxaway celebrating one of B's best friends and his beautiful bride! His bride, Diane has become one of my dearest friends and I am so thankful we got to be a part of celebrating Diane and Caldwell.
July
Much like June, I spent most of my days with the Birkel Bunch and evenings at the Ted. July was not a great month for me personally as I had my first car accident. That's right, my perfect and unblemished record no longer exists. I ran int the back of someone on Roswell Road as I was leaving the Birkels house. Luckily or unluckily, the brunt of the damage was done to my car, but I was left sore for a few weeks. Not fun and not an event I want to repeat, EVER!
August
August came in a hurry as I anticipated returning to The Preschool and a little time at the beach. B graciously took an entire week off from work(well most of the time except the time spent on a training call) and took me to Panama City. It rained pretty much the entire week and made it impossible to get a tan but, it was great to get away from the hustle bustle of Atlanta.
August ended with another wedding celebration. This time we celebrated B's neighbor from growing up, Chris Romano. Chris and his wife Christina also just recently announced(in January) that their family would grow by 2 feet in May!
September
Ah the beginning of our favorite season in the Baker household, UGA football season!!
We hosted our annual cookout to kick off the season and watched UGA destroy Mizzou. We grilled bratwursts and cooked a large amount of buffalo chicken dip, as our closest friends and family joined us in celebrating a SEC victory.
September also brought about the beginning of a new school year and precious new little ones to work their way into my heart forever. I am blessed with 2 of the cutest, if not THE cutest classes of 2 year olds to ever enter the The Preschool! I am doubly blessed because I am Finley's teacher. Yes, that's right not only did I get to teach Ella Metzner but, I get to teach her little sister too! What's not to love!!
October
October was a pretty great month for the Bakers. Despite the Braves losing AGAIN in the play in game, we cheered our hardest and loudest but didn't throw garbage on the field with the rest of the Ted. We cheered louder at the end of the month when UGA defeated UF for the 2nd year in a row. We like to think that our beloved cousin, CatNall is the reason behind UGA winning 2 years in a row and hope she will watch the game with us for years to come!
In October, we also walked in our 5th JDRF Walk for The Cure along side B's awesome family and look forward to continuing the tradition this year as well.
The last highlight of October was celebrating David and Diana's engagement. 2013 is jam packed with weddings and David and Diana's is the first one! David is a high school buddy of B's and we look forward to celebrating them on February 16th!
November
As the Lexus commercial says, Make it a December to Remember. Well my sweet, amazing thoughtful Hubs made my November one to remember! Since the Camry incident in January, we had been contemplating on when would be a good time to ditch the Camry and get B a new car. After a lot of discussion, and B's web searching, we determined that it would be best for B to take on my car, which gets 24mpg and somehow I convinced B I needed a bigger car. No, we are not pregnant but one day we will be and I wanted to be prepared. We actually struck gold and found an amazing deal on a LexusGX after searching tirelessly for a 4Runner. We had agreed on a 4Runner because it was bigger but not that much bigger plus Huey could ride in the way back. One day, casually I mentioned in passing that if we had lots of extra money, I would love to drive a LexusGX. As my luck would have it, or purely divine intervention, B found an affordable 2005 LexusGX. We quickly jumped on the deal, traded in the Camry and I now happily drive a LexusGX!!!
December
As if November did not bring enough excitement with a new car, we topped off and ended the year with our 2 year anniversary
. As you may or may not now, B loves to travel. His favorite gift is an experience, not an item. Lucky for me as his wife, I get to join on his trips, well most of the time anyway. For our 2 year anniversary, we took the most amazing and wonderful trip to NYC. It was a whirlwind trip with lots of walking and delicious food. I will devote my next blog entry to detailing our trip complete with pictures but for now, I will end this post.
2012 was a wonderful year full of ups, downs and blessings. I cannot believe it went so quickly and I am eagerly anticipating 2013!!
Thanks for reading!
Until next time....
Cheers!
