2009 will be the year of the wedding...

So I knew that was inevitable being 5 years younger then Dave that we would hit two waves of weddings phases, but wow, 2009 is going to be a wedding filled year of my girlfriends! We've had much, much worse (or better depending on how you view attending lots of weddings) With Dave being in a fraternity and still really close with many brothers, back in 2003 I think we had 8 weddings in one year. And I know many of my girlfriends have A LOT more then 3 to attend next year.

I'm going to be honored to be a part of Aubrey's wedding in July & Krista's wedding in November of 2009. Both are marrying really awesome guys that make me laugh hysterically. And Jen's wedding in October has been a long time in works considering she's marrying one of our good guy friends that we all grew up with.

It's great to think that my long time friends are stepping into the next chapter of their lives with the men they love!

A New Addition to the Hetherington Family!!!

My brother, Brian and sister in law's baby girl - Kelsey Jeannette Hetherington was born December 5th, 2008! She weighed 7 lbs 6 oz. We can't wait to meet her when we go up to Maryland (again!) for Christmas.

Thanksgiving & 10 Years Later...

For a second time in a month we made the road trip up to the DC area for Thanksgiving and my 10 Year reunion from good ol' Quince Orchard High School.

Thanksgiving has usually been done with Dave's family but this year we did it with Brian & Amy. It being only days away from Amy's due date we did a very low key ordered dinner at their house so that no one had to cook. Amy's brother, Eric & his wife, Michelle and their new baby, Lily came over. It was a low stress great way to spend the holiday.

The day after Thanksgiving we headed to Gaithersburg for my reunion. Very thankfully, we were able to stay at the Banig's house and they were willing to watch Arden the night of the reunion. That meant so much to us!!! It's still weird for me not to have a "home" when I go home to Gaithersburg since my parents moved, so it was nice to feel like we had one. I was also telling Mrs. Banig how it's funny to me how we spent so much time in high school trying to avoid our friend's parents and now that we're older they become people and friends that we want to spend time with. We had a really nice time staying there and I will forever be grateful to them for that!

The reunion was a trip. The combination of open bar and the awkwardness of conversations with people you haven't seen in 10 years made for a lot of funny stories. It's not very often that all 9 of us high school girlfriends are all in the same place at the same time to hang out, so that was great. The bar itself was also pretty comical towards the end of the evening once the "reunion" was over, but by that point it became a bit fuzzy. All in all, it was a super fun evening of catching up and seeing old friends and what people looked like now or were up to 10 years later. It's still weird that we graduated high school TEN years ago. Part of me feels like high school was forever ago and part of me feels like it was just yesterday if that makes any sense at all.