Holidays

Happy Holidays! It has been a busy season for Ryan and I. We both just finished up final exams, packed up, and left for Mexico to celebrate our friends Christy and Ben's wedding. It was fabulous! We had such a great time and really enjoyed the warm weather while we could! The rest of our Christmas break will be spent with friends and family, traveling back and forth between South Carolina and North Carolina. We are also going to Atlanta for the Chick-fil-A Bowl to watch the South Carolina Gamecocks beat the Florida Seminoles!! We have a very busy break, but are glad to be "relaxing" while we can before school starts back. Here are some pictures from Mexico:

MeRrY cHrIsTmAs!

*Shutterfly Christmas Cards*

Since Ryan and I moved to Saint Augustine and aren't in the process of moving during Christmas (like last year), we finally have the opportunity to send out Christmas cards (which I've always wanted to do)!  And it just so happens that this year Shutterfly is offering 50 free Christmas cards to "bloggers" this year!  I think it is fate that this opportunity has been presented to me! I always enjoy looking at their site and all of the cute items/ideas they have to offer. I have done a few Shutterfly photo books for family and friends, which have turned out to be a great hit! I also enjoy getting e-mails of the specials they having going on too!


Here's a few links to my favorite things on Shutterfly:
http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-photo-cardshttp://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-photo-cards

http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars  

http://www.shutterfly.com/photo-books

Shutterfly definitely has so many options to offer! Be looking for the Hicks' first (of many) Christmas cards in the mail!

SEC Championship

The question is who is going to win the SEC Championship game tomorrow?

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Well my prediction is my Gamecocks of course! I think they have had a great season and when they put their mind to something, they seem to accomplish it! We shall see tomorrow though :)

Back to Blogging...FOR REAL THIS TIME!

Now that my school schedule has slowed down MAJORLY, I can now get back to blogging and update this more often! Recently, we have been VERY busy with school and getting everything ready for the holidays. This year we had our families down to St. Augustine, and it was so much fun! My family came down on Tuesday night (which was my dad's 50th birthday). So when they got here, I had the house decorated and we went to dinner at A1A Ale Works. Then on Wednesday, I got to enjoy time with my family at Universal Studios/Islands of Adventure. Ryan's family got here on Thursday morning and we enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner together. That afternoon we went and saw the new Harry Potter movie at the IMAX theater and came home to take a short nap. At 11:30pm we began black Friday shopping and literally shopped until we dropped at 6am! Friday was my birthday and we mainly rested and went to dinner at my favorite restaurant, Olive Garden. Saturday, we watched history as the South Carolina Gamecocks beat the Clemson Tigers 29-7 (this was the first time in 40 years to have 2 years with consecutive wins by the Gamecocks!) GO COCKS! The next couple of weeks are pretty exciting, yet busy for the 2 of us: final weeks of school/final exams, watching the SEC Championship game, going to Mexico for a wedding, spending time with family and friends for Christmas in both Lexington, SC and Morehead City, NC. Here are some recent pictures of what's been going on in the Hicks' household:

A Couple Days To Look Forward To

Last weekend, Pat and his girlfriend LeAnna came to visit for the 4th of July.  We had a great time with them, and it was nice just to relax for a change.  We went to Dave and Busters on Friday night (where we got our fun on, as the boys would say). Since it rained the entire weekend, the girls went shopping on Saturday while the boys played golf.  Saturday night we cooked out and had a relaxing night.  Sunday we went to downtown St. Augustine to watch the fireworks, which were pretty good.  Then Monday was back to studying for me.

Not too much is going on this weekend or this week (other than 2 tests). But, my family will be here next Friday, and I can't wait for that!! We are going to Universal Studios on Saturday! So, until next time...

Back to the Blogging World

So, I haven't blogged in a couple of months, but I have been super busy with school and haven't had the time! But since the last blog, Ryan and I got MARRIED! We are loving every single minute of married life. We had to wait to go on our honeymoon because of my school schedule. We went to Jamaica and had so much fun! We definitely want to go back and would highly recommend it to anyone!

In May, our friends Brett and Samantha had an engagement party in Tampa. We had so much fun celebrating their wonderful occasion! But since then, our live have been pretty quiet! Ryan is starting law school in August, so we've been doing a lot of relaxing since both of us will be in school. I've started my second semester of PT school, and when they said it was going to be the hardest semester, they weren't kidding! It has been one stressful semester. But it's more than half way over!

Well, I'm going to try and keep this updated for now on! But until then...here are some pictures of the wedding and honeymoon!