So, 2009 has come and gone. It was definitely one of the crazier years for our family!! But we still made the most of it and had lots of fun and made some great memories...Let's review the Biggest milestones for our family in ....
2009
~So let's see...where to begin?? I took a fun photography class in January--(but unfortunately, am still not any better at quality picture taking. Or have yet to catch up on any one's scrapbooks...), but I did get a really nice new camera that I love and enjoyed taking pictures of all our fun activities this past year.
~In February Ellie turned the BIG 5. We decide to go to Disneyland to celebrate her big day and then decided to buy season passes for the whole family (and have definitely gotten our money's worth over the whole year as we went about 10 times!)
~In March we had some hair-brained idea to build on a 4th bedroom to our house... Which leads to ripping up 80% of our floors... Which leads to laying new wood floors and base boards... Which leads to repainting most of our house... which leads to a very crazy time in our lives!! (Need I remind you that I was 8 months preggo??)
April *13th~ Little William Mark was born. He has truly been an AMAZING baby. However, having 3 kids slowed me down physically, yet sped me up emotionally. A LOT. (Mark can attest)
May
*8th~My oldest sister Mandy got married in SLC, UT and our whole family flew out. (Will is 3 weeks old)
*9th~ We blessed little Will in the same church building Mark (and Ellie) was blessed in.
*This month, Maddy also decided it was time to potty train--right after getting back from our UT trip!--then 2 days later (22nd) my youngest brother Tommy graduated from hs--road trip to St. George UT. (Will was 4 1/2 weeks old)
June~
*10th~Ellie graduated from preschool--her final year before kindergarten!
*17th~ We celebrated Mark's birthday--true OC style.
July~
*Ellie learned to swim!!!
*12th-19th~ We spent a week in Newport Beach with Mark's whole family living it up and soaking up the sun.
*29th~ Mark and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary! We celebrated by taking a nice, relaxing little getaway to Orange County--without the girls.
August~
*20th~Ellie started kindergarten (sniff! sniff!)
*27th~We become a soccer family. Every Saturday for the next 10 weeks or so is spent at the soccer fields, not to mention every Wed night at practice.
September~
*Maddy started going to preschool two days a week , plus had an extra day being gone at a co-op play date.
*I turned 30 and we enjoyed a few day in OC and then started my mid-life crisis! (30--REALLY?!?!)
October~
*Halloween and all the festivities that it entails. (Complete with being one of Ellie's class room parents too.)
November~
*6th~Maddy turned 3. (enough said...) We did celebrate with a fun filled weekend getaway at La Costa Resort in Palm Springs--hanging out at the pool, water slides and lazy river among other fun things.
*14th~ Soccer ends. We reclaim our Saturdays. Until next season anyway...
*Spent a week at Thanksgiving in OC. We celebrate the big day with dad, Nancy and Tommy. We also went to Sea World, Disneyland (2 days) and then all our partying puts Mark over the edge and then he is out for 2 1/2 weeks with the swine flu...
December~
*While trying to play catch-up from Mark's bout with illness, the month goes by in a whirlwind--Christmas shopping, packing for 5 to UT (um...we have NO winter clothes!!), and all while trying to squeeze in all our wonderful holiday traditions...
*18th-29th~ Road trip to Utah to spend Christmas with all three of our families.
**And then back home to spend a little time "stay-cationing" in our beautiful San Diego before our crazy life resumes.
**So let's recap... (Now mind you--these were just the biggest events that we listed)...so...in 2009, we did a HUGE remodel, had our 3rd child, celebrated 10 years of wedded bliss. Ellie starts kindergarten, begins playing soccer and learns to swim. Maddy is potty trained, dethroned as the "baby" of the family and starts preschool 3 days a week. Will joined our family and by force has had to become the best baby ever as he gets dragged from activity to activity. We spent lots of time this year at Disneyland, Sea World, and the beach, not to mention every park in San Diego. We visited northern Utah, southern Utah, Orange County, and Palm Springs a couple of times each and had a blast! We also had lots of visitors--Angie and family, Robin, Grandma Trish, Grandpa Ed and Grandma Nancy, Grandma Connie, Gary and family, John and Amy, Ash and Wes-- just to name a few...
Here's a toast to 2009 (imagine me holding up my glass of Martinelli's...)--
2009 treated us well, but let's hope 2010 is a little less crazy for us!!!
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