2009 Highlights

In chronological order (as best as i can remember):

--Pa's 80th birthday celebration with brothers and their families in to visit
--Trip to Florida with friends
--Making my goal of running 3.2 miles without stopping
--KayCee winning runner-up in the West Virginia ToughWoman competition
--LOST nights
--The day that i took all the kids to the mall by myself
--Laura's Easter visit and our night with KayCee & Steffi
--Women's Retreat with church ladies
--All kids basketball and baseball games
--Ma Ruth's 80th birthday party
--Doug 28 on the 28th--a very fun day even though the bash of all bashes did not happen due to Lily's impending arrival
--Lily's birth
--Summer evenings
--Positive pregnancy test
--Our anniversary trip--camping in the rain
--All kid birthday parties--Eden--6, Nadia--1, Simone--3, Cana--10, Judah--8
--Saturday nights out
--Camping trip and bike ride with Brandy
--Watching Brandy's baby be born
--Seeing baby 6 via ultrasound
--Tyler County fair
--Dustin's soccer wins
--Titus--our jack russell puppy
--Mountaineer football games
--Midwifery conference on top of the mountain
--Jury duty being cancelled
--Ordering homeschool book
--Kids starting gymnastics and dance & Judah's gymnastics accomplishments
--Elowyn's birth
--Shopping trips with Cana
--Aaron & Amanda coming to visit
--Red Raider alumni parade
--Ultrasound shows growing, healthy babe
--Cana's fashion show bday party
--Mom moving to Paden City
--Luke & Rachel & kids visiting for Thanksgiving
--Dinner at my mom's house with siblings--first time in 10 (??) years
--Thanksgiving dinner at Ma Ruth's
--Stomach being healed
--Christmas with family
--Getting furniture and carpets cleaned
--Knitting and learning to crochet
--And anything I forgot that I'll think of within the hour