On This Day... 2004

It's time for another installment of On This Day posts!
Here's a couple other On This Day posts.

On this day in 2004...

 ...I was going to prom!!  

Check out all the pink in that picture!  I was a sophomore in high school, and a friend that I worked with asked if I would accompany him to prom.  We had a lot of fun.  I can't believe it's been 8 years already!  I remember that morning I had a band competition (clarinet, holla!) about an hour away.  On the way back, my mom drove like a wild woman and I painted my nails in the car.  We got back and she did my hair.  My friend-date arrived while I was brushing my teeth!  Super fast prom preparations!!  Can we take a second to talk about how young I look in this picture?  I was 16, but I feel like I look even younger.  Unfortunately that flattering picture above is the only one that I have on me to celebrate this day!

Blake did not go to prom until his senior year, but prom pictures are so fun that I think they should be included.  Here's Blake at his senior year prom in '06!

Just in case you can't tell, he's the one on the far left.  The guy on the far left, I mean.

What are we up to today?
-I took my Trusts and Estates final this morning (pretty tough but I feel pretty good about it)
-I'm studying for my final tomorrow.
-Blake is studying for his final tomorrow.

I'd much rather be going to prom!  With Blake this time of course! 

Play along at home!
-Where were you on this day in 2004, or last year, or whenever??
-What would you tell yourself if you could go back in time?

On This Day... 2001

It's time for another installment of On This Day posts! Who's excited??
Here's our last On This Day post.

On this day in 2001...

Me, my sister Becca, and my brother Ben

... my family went to Dollywood in Pigeon Forge! I have so many fond memories of that place. My family got season passes several years in a row, and we had a blast scheming on the best time to go to the park, riding all of the rides multiple times, and wearing ourselves out from walking all over the place.  Ben was a young thing at this point, and the park people would let Mom ride with me and Becca on a ride while Dad stayed with Ben -- and then let Becca and I stay on the ride while Dad rode with us and Mom stayed with Ben!  This worked out quite nicely for Becca and me! :)

Dollywood was a rocking place at Christmas time. We would take the train up into the mountains and look at the Christmas lights. We watched shows and dances more than in the summer too, and that was always a fun way to get into the holiday spirit.

I love the look on our faces in this picture! Benji's is especially cute. I'm not sure who said or did something that made us all crack up, but I love the result!

If I could tell the people in this picture something, I would....
- tell myself to ditch the glasses! :)
- tell Ben not to get lost! The poor thing wandered off on one of our Dollywood trips and scared the heck out of the rest of the family.  Thankfully he found a policeman, just like he'd been told to do if he ever got lost, and everything turned out fine!
- tell Becca that we do indeed grow out of the awkward years, even though it took me a little longer than it took her!

And finally... Here's a grown up version of the kids!

Play along at home!
-Where were you on this day in 2001, or last year, or whenever??
-What would you tell yourself if you could go back in time?

On This Day... 2006

I am pretty excited about a new series of posts I'm going to do on the blog!  Mine and Blake 's life is extremely awesome and exciting with all our day-in and day-out studying, especially as we are heading toward finals, but no one wants to hear about that everyday.  Plus, on a more serious note, there are lots of things we can't say on here about our life and school because Blake will be applying for residency programs and I'm applying for jobs, and what goes on the internet stays on the internet. I think it would be great if this blog turned into something that people could read if they're interested in what it is really like to be a medical student or a law student or a married medical/law student to another medical/law student, but someone else will have to handle that responsibility! Or we can talk about it after the fact. Anyway....

Blake and I are going to start 'On This Day' posts on the blog!  With each 'On This Day' post, we'll upload a picture of some kind from a previous year on the day the story is published and tell about what was happening at that point in our lives. It should be fun! And since hindsight is 20/20, we're going to throw in a 'If I Could Tell The People In This Picture Something...' And since it's such a fun idea, people who are reading this should comment and tell us what they were doing on this day too!

So let's get started, shall we?

October 21, 2006 Blake and me in Oak Ridge, TN at a Sonic :)

On this day in 2006...
...Blake met my family for the very first time! It was a big day indeed. Blake and I had been dating around a month, though at the time it felt like we'd always been together. My parents had already moved to Maryland, and I'm not entirely sure why they needed to be back in the Oak Ridge/Oliver Springs area, but they did on this weekend, and since my birthday is only a few days away, I went back home and brought along this cutie to say hello!

I think my parents liked Blake immediately! It's always so funny how first impressions go. I also met Dorothy and Steve sometime around then for the very first time! Hopefully they liked me too haha. Either way, neither of those parents knew that they were meeting their future daughter-in-law / son-in-law!

Also, look how different we look! This is a picture of me and Blake recently:

Can you tell the difference?? It's funny how 5 years change a person!

If I could tell the people in this picture something, I would...
-tell myself to soak in the coming years because they are going to be some of your favorites!
-Blake says: "I would tell myself to cut my hair and shave. I would tell Catie to keep an eye on that fleece jacket because I lose it at some point in the future, and I'd tell her that I'm going to propose to her in the spring semester of our senior year."  (note: he proposed to me in the fall and was tricky about it. Now I know that it was because my subconscious self had been told by his future self that he was waiting til the spring to propose!)

Play along at home!
-What were you doing on this day in 2006, or last year, or whenever?
-Is there anything you wish you could tell yourself?