2010- What a Year!

2010 brought us so many blessings and new things:

I could try to list them but there are so many that I would surely forget all of the awesome things! I am just going to post some pictures of some of the fun things we did this year!

Chip and Cara's Engagement Dinner

Snow February 2010

Stuart and Sara's Wedding July 2010

Chip and Cara's Wedding 2010

Matt's 26th Birthday

DFUMC Shower October 2010

Halloween 2010

Christmas Shower November 2010

Parkton Shower Nov 2010

We are MARRIED!!!

First Dance as Husband and Wife!

We also celebrated us both getting jobs, my graduation from UA, Maddie Smith's First birthday, Nathan and April's wedding in Mobile, our Honeymoon in New Orleans, the birth of our new niece Rebecca Rose Triche to Matt's sister Melanie and her husband Nathan, and I am sure many many more things! We are excited to see what 2011 has in store for our new family! We have already made some plans and I am sure we will be doing a lot of traveling in the coming months! We hope your 2010 was wonderful and we wish you a blessed and Happy 2011!

**I will post about our Honeymoon and Christmas during the New Year! Just know that our Honeymoon was wonderful and Christmas was nice and quiet! We are headed to Josh and Lindsey's to celebrate the New Year with our closest friends!**

American Girl 2011

The Wednesday before Christmas, the girls in the family went to the American Girl Boutique in Alpharetta, GA. Carley, Scarlett, and Lawson all got American Girls from Mom, Nickel and Russ for Christmas. We took them to the boutique to pick out some items for each of their dolls. Carley got Kit, Scarlett got Rebecca, and Lawson got a Bitty Baby! I have the American Girl, Molly and I was excited to actually go to the store and see all the fun items you can get for your doll. I will be sending my doll back at some point to get her hair fixed (I got Molly when I was 6, and I "fixed" her hair too much!). Overall, it was a wonderful trip and it was so much fun to spend the day with my wonderful nieces, mom, and sister!

A Sneak Peek!!!!

Della sent us a few pictures from the wedding to hold us over until our CD's get here! I am so excited about how these couple look and can't wait for the rest! We are leaving tomorrow for Mobile and then headed to New Orleans for our Honeymoon until Christmas Eve! No blogging on our honeymoon of course!!! ;)

We are the third couple to have our reception at Mark and Lydia's house. We all have this picture too!

Leaving the church!

Our Collage!

Cutting the Cake

My beautiful Bridesmaids!

L-R: My Mom, Uncle Raphord, Aunt Jennie, Uncle Bill, and Aunt Vi
The Original Farrington 5!

Matt with the girls!

Cousins! L-R Cristin, Lee, Me
We take this picture at every family function we are at together!

As soon as we return from our busy Christmas schedule I will post wedding pictures!

Merry Christmas! 

Our Tree is Finally Finished!!!

We finally finished our Christmas Tree on Saturday! We have had it up and lit for almost 3 weeks but had only put ornaments on that people had given us during our engagement! I figured since it was our one week anniversary on Saturday that I would finish the tree! I am sure some of you are wondering how Waylon is with the tree-He has only licked a few of the ornaments at the bottom of the tree and his tail has only taking out a couple! I was very careful about which ornaments went on the bottom of the tree.

After the lights were finished!

The tree with the lights off! We have some pretty awesome ornaments!

The beautiful finished product! With the tree skirt and topper!

Merry Christmas! 

I only have one more week of school and then we are off to Mobile to celebrate Nathan and April's wedding. Then on Sunday December 19th we are off to The Big Easy for our Honeymoon! 

Some Wedding Pictures and a KitchenAid Mixer!!!!!

I wanted to share some photos from the wedding! These are all from other people's Facebook accounts! I cannot wait until our photos from Della (photographer & Cousin) come in. I just know they are beautiful! Enjoy!

 Leaving the church headed to the reception! **Notice the "snow" on Matt's tux?**

First dance as Husband and Wife!

Chip and I dancing

I love this picture! Thanks Lisa for snapping it!

My AWESOME cake!

The food setup! Everything was absolutely gorgeous!

Guess who got a KITCHENAID Mixer today? This girl!

I work with the nicest people alive and they gave me a surprise shower this afternoon! I had been talking to some of the girls I work with about how I really wanted a KitchenAid but was going to wait and buy one on sale with some of our gift cards! (We were at Belk yesterday returning/purchasing with our gift cards and I drooled over the mixer the entire time. I am glad Matt talked me out of it and we were able to buy some much needed items yesterday!) I was beyond surprised to open the gift and it be a mixer! I had to open it up tonight after we got home from the grocery store and take pictures of it! :) Matt bets it will be used 4 times over the next year, but I am determined to prove him wrong! Happy Baking!

The Debut of our Blog and Life Together!

Introducing Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Moore McMillan! Finally after 3 years we are MARRIED!!!!
**Side Note: Matt and I will not be going on our Honeymoon until I get out for Christmas Break and after our friends April and Nathan's Wedding on December 18th!**
We are trilled beyond believe to be able to share this experience called marriage together. Our family, friends, and everyone in between have pulled out all the stops to make our wedding day absolute perfection. It was absolute perfection in our eyes! We had a great time with our friends and families!

July 2010, Chip and Cara's Wedding

The past 150ish days have flown by for the two of us! A little recap of what we have been doing on between our engagement and wedding day:

1. The week after our engagement we signed a lease on our house in Helena, AL!
2. We went to North Carolina for a week to see Matt's family.
3. We celebrated the Wedding of Stuart and Sara Brown on July 17th
4. I started my job as a Special Education Teacher with Jefferson County Board of Education.
5. We celebrated the Wedding of Chip (my brother) and Cara Williams on July 31st!
6. We were reunited with Waylon! He stayed with my mom/Matt's parents/Chip in the Spring due to our schedules!
7. Matt went back to Knoxville, Tennessee for 2 weeks to run his Fall Route.
8. We dug up and re-planted our front flower bed! I was so proud because I definitely do not have a green thumb like my mother and grandmother! We planted Rosemary in our back flower beds...They lasted about 3 weeks. Waylon ate some and what he did not eat he dug up! ;)
9. We had 7 wedding showers. (Yes you read that right 7!) We are extremely blessed with wonderful friends and family! **Thank You Notes are coming...I promise!**
10. We bought a Christmas Tree! A beautiful 9 ft tree and Matt put 700 lights on it!

As you can see we have been going 90 to nothing since our engagement! I left out that I finished 2 semesters of Graduate School in between all this too!!! Go Me! I am sure I have left out a million other little things that we have done in the past 5 months!

My first 18 weeks as a REAL teacher are almost over! It seems like yesterday I was sitting at my desk reading my student's cumulative files. Eight students with moderate to severe disabilities, two para professionals, and peer helpers make for some very interesting days. I am grateful every day to God that he put me at a school where students with disabilties are not only accepted, but fully included. I want to write a book about some of the experiences I have had with these kids. They have deepened my desire, need, and drive to be around children/adults with special needs. Do not think that I have not come home 1. crying, 2. so tired I did not want to eat, or 3. with multiple stomach bugs. The things that happen to first year teachers!

Matt has been home since the last week of August. His job at Bonnie Plant Farm will resume in late January in Knoxville, Tennessee. We will be married almost 2 months when he has to move back to Knoxville until July. Thankfully, Knoxville is only 5 hours away and is a okay drive to make for both of us. Last Plant Season we saw each other every month except April (which is the busiest for the company)! While he has been at home he has worked at Camp, worked with Waylon on his behavior, helped with all kinds of wedding stuff, and just been all-around the best fiance' EVER! Seriously, he has been beyond amazing! I am sure he is ready to get back to Knoxville so he doesn't have to wake up to a "Honey, Please do..." ;)

I was randomly looking at old photos on Facebook and I wanted to share some of the two of us over the past three years! Enjoy! I promise to update the blog with pictures as soon as I get some!

This was Summer 2007-The Summer we met!

Snow 2010

The day of our Engagement! July 2, 2010

Stuart and Sara's Wedding-July 2010

Our House in Helena, AL

This weekend was fantastic and we are beyond blessed to have shared it with everyone that was there. Thank You to everyone who has shown us love and support during our relationship so far and we hope you continue to pray for us as we begin our marriage!