We Survived 2012

We made it through putting our house in Birmingham on the market (and keeping it show-ready for months), Phillip’s guys’ trip to Montana, Jennifer’s South Carolina bar exam and surprise, mandatory, three-day CLE, trips together to the Bahamas, the mountains, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Virginia, and the beach, house–hunting in Charleston, moving from Birmingham and into an apartment with three flights of stairs and no elevator, Jennifer’s telecommuting work arrangement, our 29th birthdays, Jennifer’s first Jimmy Buffett concert, Grandmother’s 90th birthday weekend, being hours away from home, Phillip’s internal medicine board exam, building a house, a girls’ night out and girls’ weekend, a Charleston Christmas without Jonathan, Kenslee, or real Christmas trees, moving (again) to the new house, watching the London Olympics, Kenslee’s 6th birthday party, the worst dishwasher that has ever existed, the dripping apartment refrigerator, a month of heart failure/transplant service, Phillip’s first time driving catheters, the celebration of five weddings, the creation of Sweet as Pie Cooking Club, trying 50+ new recipes, meeting the Pioneer Woman, watching our friends welcome new babies and rejoice in babies on the way, learning how to pronounce Edisto, making great new friends, an Alabama national championship and another stressful season of college football, progress along the Blue Ridge Parkway, our first anniversary, Phillip’s first time flying an airplane, the frustration of being a Comcast customer once more, joining the Junior League, finding a new hair salon, Phillip learning his way around a new hospital and administrative system, and exploring our new city.  As always, we did it together and we’ll keep doing it together, come rain or come shine.