Winter 2010

I'm going to be a little lazy and just throw all of my winter activities into one post to get this ball rolling for 2011 blogging!

November was apparently a boring month, because I have not one picture to show for it. I was really busy at my internship at Cars.com, which I started in October and ended just before Christmas. It was such a great experience and allowed me to dive into an industry that wasn't fashion focused. I was really excited to broaden my resume and hopefully open up more opportunities for myself in the future. It is a great company to work for and I met a lot of awesome people as well!

I went home for Thanksgiving to hang with the family, eat some food, and watch some football (of course!). We have a tradition of seeing a movie on Thanksgiving, so we saw Burlesque, which was good -- minus Christina's acting and some copied story lines. The musical numbers were BA-NA-NAS! Seriously.

The beginning of December brought TBOX 2010 aka The Twelve Bars of X-mas! This is a pub crawl in Wrigleyville here in Chicago that is Christmas themed, and everyone wears ugly Christmas sweaters and crazy outfits. I went with a group of friends from school, and we had a lot of fun! I only lasted through 4 of the 12 bars, but it was a good time nonetheless.

FINALLY, winter break came along, and I got to go home for an extended period. Joe drove up from Florida to be with his family as well, and I hadn't seen him since my birthday, so it was really exciting! It was a pretty low key break. I saw all my friends, lounged around, spent family time, watched football, shopped, etc.

We went up to Wisco for Christmas, which was so awesome to see our extended fam! We spent Christmas day with the Dahlke side of the family and on Sunday we went to the Ekern side. It was so nice to see everyone since we aren't up there very often! Highlight: Finn telling me that "Aunt GG has a baby in her tummy!"

New Year's Eve was pretty low key. Joe and I went ice skating with one of my bffs- Blair. Then, we went down to Meghan's neighborhood and went out with her friends to a bar/bowling alley! Blair's boyfriend came down and we all hung out and bowled. It was a nice way to end a great year! :)