Meet US in St. Louis?

Oops, it has been quite some time since I updated my blog.  My apologies, I'm sure you're all just dying to know how life has changed for me in over a year since my last post. To keep the catch-up short, I'll give you the top 5 things you've missed since October 28, 2011:

1. Darren and I got married

2. Darren moved to St. Louis

3. Darren and I moved from the loft downtown to a quiet condo in the suburbs

4. I became fully CRM (Cardiac Rhythm Management) certified and began training for the ablation mapping software with my company

5. A TON of my friends got married (and we enjoyed attending the weddings we were able to make)

Phew. That almost covers 14 months of lost time.

Why the sudden interest in posting again? Well, I realized how much I enjoyed catching up with you, my long-distant friends and family, over the holidays and wanted to maintain some sort of connection so you wouldn't feel so far away. It's a new year and with that comes new resolutions. One of mine is obviously to try to maintain this blog a little better than I have been. We'll see how long it lasts!

I would like to quickly give a shout out to those of you who have recently traveled all the way up to the middle of the country to see our little Cannon family. To Kacey & Brian for coming over Thanksgiving, to Alex & Stephanie for stopping by before Christmas, and to Svenja, Lauren, Robert, & Hunter for coming before New Years:  It may not seem this way when you're here visiting, but it means the world to us that you took the time to drive up here and say hello. 

You see, I've relearned an important lesson recently. There are friends you make and keep while you're in a certain time of life such as high school or college and then as you are separated by distance and circumstance, those friendships fade away.  Then there are friends who you personally work hard to maintain but they, for whatever reason, do not put forth as much effort to keep close and eventually they, too, fade away.  Finally, there are friends that no matter what you do, you just can't seem to rid yourselves of them. Haha, just kidding. But really, there are those people who become an integral part of your life that you just cannot imagine life without. Instead of mourning over the loss of friendships that were and no longer are, I am trying my best to continue fanning the flames of those that have the potential to burn on through anything. To you, I say thanks for sticking with us even if we do live in the smack-dab middle of the country. 

If there is anyone who happens to read this and thinks, "Man I wish we had kept in touch." PLEASE say something! This sounds silly, but maybe I've been thinking the same thing and it's time that we reconnect. 

Here's to good friendships and maybe some rekindled ones in the coming year!

Okay, enough serious talk. Can somebody PLEASE give me a WHOOOOOP for this amazing season of Aggie football? If Darren and I are having this much fun with it 14 hours away from Kyle Field, I can't imagine what campus has been like! We watched the Cotton Bowl with a group of friends and spent almost the entire game explaining some of our crazy traditions. From the corps to kissing when we score to how we've got a mascot who is a dog but we're called the Aggies and also part of the 12th man, I tried to decently cover the Aggie basics. Everybody was floored by how much passion and tradition we have. This is really something, having the opportunity to explain the spirit and tradition of A&M to people who literally know nothing about it... and at the end of one conversation they can already feel how special our school is. All I can say to that is how proud I am to be an Aggie. We are the Aggies, the Aggies are we (even in Missouri)!!!