The first part of the year basically consisted of us planning a wedding and of course finding somewhere to live! That was the first thing that really made me feel "grown up!" We were very blessed to find the apartment we did and we actually will be living here until August of 2011.
Ok, so here it goes...
First big thing was our wedding- April 17, 2010
Followed by and AmAzInG Honeymoon in Cancun, Mexico
It was the year of weddings for us...
Kaitlin & Seth
Sally & Eric
Alli & Allen
Skip & Stephanie
( so crazy story...my sister-in-law got engaged right after Andrew and I and without knowing it she picked the exact same wedding dress I did! Our mother-in-law figured it out as we were both sending her pictures of our dressed we had bought! We just didn't tell Skip so he wouldn't know what her dress looked like when they got married in July! One day Stephanie we should have our girls both wear them too...that is if we even have a girl we know the odds for us of that happening :) )
There were other weddings as well but these were ones with my closest girlfriends and Andrew's oldest brother.
Andrew started his own company: Twigs Lawn Care, LLC
Went to Andrew's youngest brother Ben's football games at Coastal Carolina-It was his senior year :(
Andrew and I made T-shirts for every game we went to! They went to round two of the National Championships for their division and were Conference Champs!
Found out that we are going to an Aunt & Uncle for the third time in the Smith family in June 2011!
My cousin Joshua and dear friend Carla got engaged!
Baby Caleb Joshua was born to the Jonathan Erdman Family on December 9th.
My dearest friend Allie went through something hard and was so TOUGH through it all!! Love you both Allie and John!
We got our first Christmas tree as a Married Couple :)
We had our first Christmas together as Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Erdman
We continued our tradition of going to the Angus Barn with my family and making Gingerbread Houses (Carla and Allie joined us this year too for Gingerbread decorating)
Andrew got sick and had to leave so he didn't get to enjoy his dinner at the Angus Barn :( He was really sad.
We had Christmas with the Erdmans on Dec. 22! It was fun to have all of us together!
Ben made a video of our time together
So, my dad decided to do something different and crazy for my mom this Christmas. Normally we all usually know what he is getting her and I usually help him with it...but not this year. He had this big plan that he wanted to surprise my mom with and wanted it to be a surprise for everyone. I could NOT stand this because I love to know what he's doing and he kept going places and spending hours on this "surprise" for about two weeks before Christmas. He needed help two different times and so since I was working he had my brothers help him, so of course they got to find out what this surprise was. We all had our ideas of what it could be, but really had no idea. Only thing we knew was he came back one day from working on it and had mud all over the car. Finally, on Christmas Eve he decided it was time to reveal the surprise, so my brothers left early to get the surprise ready and my dad, mom, Andrew and I left not long after them. At this point my mom was getting really nervous and was about to start hyperventilating because she was scared it was going to be something she didn't like and would be stuck with living with like a house or land she didn't get a say so in (they have been looking at land so that's why she was thinking this). On the way there my dad being the silly guy he is would act like he was pulling into different places that were of course NOT something my mom would like. Finally we got to where we were going which he tricked her even again because it was a HUGE home, a ton of land and horses everywhere....he kept saying "can you see yourself living here?" Then he finally drove down to a barn and to find this awaiting for my mom...
Meet Bella the newest addition to the Patterson Family! My mom was in shock at first and still was trying to soak everything in, but she loves Bella and is learning lots about how to take care of her and ride her! Andrew was really excited as well since he is the horse man of the family!
We spent Christmas Eve at our apartment and woke up and had our Christmas together!
After we did our Christmas together we went over to my parents to have Christmas with them and breakfast. We had lots of fun together! We all got nerf guns so we had fun shooting each other!
We were beginning to think we were not going to have a White Christmas like everyone else but it came a little later in the night and we woke up to this...
We had lots of fun being snowed in at my parents and playing in the snow!
Andrew was in a bible study for men at our church where he met a man that also works in the landscaping field..this lead to a new opportunity for Andrew. Starting Monday, January 3rd Andrew will be apart of the Senior Management team for Davenport Landscaping, where he will be starting a turf management program for this company! We are both really excited about this new opportunity for Andrew and are so blessed for how the Lord has continually provided for us! Please pray for Andrew as it will be a lot of work and adjustment going back to work for a company after having started his own company and working for himself!
These are just some of the things that were apart of our first year as a married couple there are more but these were just the majors ones!
I am daily amazed at how the Lord has orchestrated our lives and how He continues to! We are so blessed with such wonderful families and friends in our lives. I am so thankful that the Lord decided for Andrew and I to do life together! I could not ask for a better husband! This year has gone by so fast and I am so excited for another year with Andrew and all that the Lord has in store for us in 2011!
Some of our New Year Resolutions are:
Paying off Debt
Getting a House
And of course...Getting in Shape :) Haha I have fattened my husband up since we got married
Merry Christmas a little late and Happy New Year!!!
"Come and hear, all you who fear God;
let me tell you what he has done for me."
let me tell you what he has done for me."
Psalm 66:16
