2009 in review

I've seen many of my other friends making a list of important events from each month in 2009, so I've been thinking about all the things that happened in my life this year:

January:
- First snow day of the winter!
- Wedding invitations were ordered, one big thing off our to-do list

February:
- Wedding preparations are in full swing, finding/ordering bridesmaid dresses, premarital counseling, picking food, flowers, etc

March:
- Alice and Keegan buy their wedding rings for each other

April:
- Keegan and Alice go to Hilton Head with Keegan's family for Easter
- Alice's cousin and his wife have their second daughter, born April 7 :-)
- Alice's grandfather has one of his knees replaced, BME in action!

May:
- Alice finishes her first year of Ph.D. study!
- Alice turns 23!
- All wedding invitations are mailed at the beginning of the month
- Keegan and Alice celebrate 3 years together

June:
- After more than 11 months of planning Keegan and Alice get married!
- Keegan and Alice take their first vacation together, a honeymoon in Bermuda
- Alice attends a conference on self-healing materials in Chicago
- Alice's middle/high school Girl Scout troop held their reunion; the troop began in 1987 and the last girls graduated high school in 2008

July:
- Keegan and Alice drive to Vermont for July 4th weekend for the big Brochufest family reunion
- Keegan and Alice join other Dukies on a trip to West Virginia to go white water rafting at the New River Gorge
- We go to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; this was Alice's very first midnight movie!

August:
- Alice begins her second year of Ph.D. coursework

September:
- Keegan turns 24!
- Alice opens a retirement account, wahoo!

October:
- Keegan and Alice celebrate their first Halloween as a married couple :-)
- Alice has health scare that requires trip to emergency room

November:
- Keegan and Alice celebrate their first Thanksgiving as a married couple
- Keegan's mom goes on a 2 week trip to the Galapagos and Peru, so Keegan spends a week living at his family's house, taking care of his siblings while his dad travels for work

December:
- We went to see The Nutcracker at Memorial Auditorium
- Keegan and Alice celebrate their first Christmas as a married couple!
- Keegan's company meets their huge December 18 deadline for their Lightner project; the project is extended through another phase, to be completed in May 2010. Yay!

Can't wait for 2010
:-D