January began in the best possible way: celebrating with friends (and Cassidy!) in Portland.
(Congrats on your engagement, Jess!). Resolutions were also made, I was offered a research assistantship (complete with office!), and I began to hear back from PhD programs.
In February thank-yous were extended, mushrooms were harvested...
Valentine's day was celebrated with chicken/veggie pot pie...
and Leap Day was celebrated in an appropriately 30 Rock-ian fashion ("Real life is for March!). February was also my most successful blogging month, with four (count 'em!) whole posts. Sheesh.
March was nuts. In March I traveled to Orlando for a conference, to Buffalo to visit a PhD program there, and we got to see the cherry blossoms at their height:
While in Orlando I was able to meet up with some of our dear friends for a whirlwind day at Disney:
In April I posted a recipe for happiness (I highly recommend it), and we celebrated springtime in Laurel by cuddling with Creature:
April was stressful because we didn't know what was happening with school for me. I'd been wait-listed at GW, and there were some issues with finding a funding line for me. However, this was resolved in...
May, when I was able to officially announce that I'd been accepted into GW's program. Whew! This freed us up to do some fun things, like celebrate my newly acquired Master's degree with dinner at our favorite restaurant in Baltimore...
and build rock pylons and take a hike at Harper's Ferry:
June was busy, too, but in a fun, adventuresome kind of way. In June I started working at the Maryland Zoo, Charlotte sent me a sweet gift from my beloved England...
we went to Truckeroo and Moonrise Kingdom...
I was able to be involved with the DC Pride Parade...
and we had an amazing camping trip on the Eastern Shore...
June also brought us the derecho and a fridge full of other people's food (which we did not eat, to our great credit):
In July we celebrated the fourth of July with our second year on the Mall:
My birthday was an embarrassment of celebration in 2012, with an outdoor movie party with friends (O Brother Where Art Thou, natch)...
A picnic in the park with Ross...
and an amazing trip to Charleston and the Disney resort at Hilton Head with friends:
Even the elephants got presents on my birthday:
Later in July Ross went to visit his parents in Chicago, and then our dearly beloved, fabulous friend Heather came to stay! We walked and talked without break for two days. I think she might have been trying to kill us, but it was worth it:
While we were waiting for Heather's flight to arrive we visited the air and space museum, which was SO COOL.
In August we celebrated Ross' birthday with duck fat fries and ice cream cake...
...we found our dream apartment in DC and started to pack...
and we played mini golf at the National Building Museum with some of our favorite friends.
In late August I started school (again) as a full-fledged PhD student and teaching assistant.
In September we bid (a surprisingly bittersweet) farewell to Laurel and moved to DC!
Later in September I traveled to Boston for a conference where I got some unexpected good news.
In October we celebrated our third anniversary with another camping trip and a pumpkin patch adventure...
and we celebrated Halloween by dressing up as, naturally, a gentleman and a scholar...
and carving pumpkins with friends...
Photo from my darling friend, Kim's, fabulous blog.
In November I totally failed as a blogger, we had grasshopper tacos at Oyamel before going to the Kennedy center to see War Horse...
went camping again...
and had an epic solo Thanksgiving, if I do say so myself. Which I do.
December was filled with all kinds of adventures, which I will blog about in the next few weeks. In the meantime, here's a taster:
Happy 2013 to you and Ross. We would love to have you come visit.
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