Thursday, January 5, 2012

2011 in Review

2011 passed so quickly. I think what people say about "time passing faster as you get older" is definitely true. How can it already be 2012? 2011 was an amazing year for the Browns. What an incredible experience we have to live overseas and experience wonderful things together. God is good. 
  Time passes So quickly it seems!

When I look back on 2011 I realize JUST how blessed we are. 2010 was a crazy year with planning a wedding, getting married, moving to Alabama and then moving to Korea. 2011 was more calm (thank goodness) but just as wonderful. 
   

 Photos can be so much better than words, so here is the "Brown Family recap: 2011"


In January we traveled to a traditional Korean Folk Village. This was something about how people used to be tortured in Korean communities for doing bad things. Josh enjoyed this too much-haha!

Loving Korea!


For Christmas Josh got me tickets to see Taylor Swift in Seoul. Here we are on the bus heading to the concert



Josh's promotion- so proud of my soldier

Korean War Memorial

Seoul Zoo

Out and about exploring Seoul

Korean War Memorial

 



Cirque du Soleil was SO amazing!

Korean cooking class with other Army wives

Seoul Zoo

Everland- Korean amusement park

Olympic Stadium

Josh at Everland

Army Aviation Ball

Melissa, Krystle and I at the Army Aviation Ball

We celebrated our first anniversary here in Seoul

Seoul Tower with all the love locks. We added ours and will try to find it next year, on our second anniversary

You throw the key to your lock off the side of the tower

There goes the key!

Josh and Jacob on the train- take 1

Back at the train later that week! :)

Heidi's Bachelorette Party

We traveled back to the USA in August to see Josh's sister, Heidi, get married. Such a great trip and a beautiful wedding. We feel so blessed that we were both able to be there and be a part of the bridal party. 


Heidi and Jake with the bridal party

Jessica and I 

Jessica, Mummu and Kiki

Crystal and I 

The Browns

Kiki and I 

Josh and I stayed in Seattle for a few days and went to 2 Mariners games 

Mariners game night 1- It was "Korea night" at the ball park. Crazy! Here is my best Korean pose!


Eating lunch before heading to the Underground Tour of Seattle

Angry Birds costumes on Halloween

Mary and Steve came to visit us in Korea! Here we are at the Gyeongbukgong Palace



Exploring the palace

At the DMZ

On the North and South Korean border

Christmas date 

  
Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve




 


Wishing you all the best for 2012! Love, the Browns





 











Christmas 2011

The Christmas season always passes so quickly. I can't  believe that it is 2012 already! We had a wonderful Christmas this year and enjoyed our second holiday season in Korea. How time flies! 
The week before Christmas we were involved in a orphanage event with the people that Josh works with. We went bowling with the kids, ate pizza, and each family gave presents to a child (all the kids were 13.) Josh shopped for the boy and found soccer shin guards, some yummy treats and a Nerf basketball hoop. I shopped for the girl and found some cute winter sweaters, gloves and hats along with some art supplies. It was a fun day! We were also able to show the kids around the post where Josh works and let them climb around inside the helicopters and take pictures! Overall a really fun day!
We hosted Christmas dinner at our house and it was a great time. Josh cooked a delicious prime rib dinner and we had many yummy sides too. I wish I would have remembered to take pictures, as we had SO much food. We had a white elephant gift exchange and played some other games too. How great to spend Christmas with friends when you are so far away from your family. 
We also hosted New Years Eve at our house this year. (One thing I love about our house is the big kitchen and living room- they are perfect for entertaining!) We took our friends to our favorite restaurant near our house and then played games at our house afterwards. New Years was pretty low key for us this year and very fun! 
Here are some photos from the holiday season in Korea:

Decorating Christmas cookies. We turned the gingerbread man upside down to make reindeer!

Decorating Christmas cookies with Soo and Stephanie

Christmas Eve

The entry way to our house on Christmas Eve


Date night at the COEX Mall for dinner and the casino

Cute cake on Christmas

Out and about...it's getting COLD 

Opening presents on Christmas morning

Christmas morning