The Year in Review, 2009

I came across a few ideas for journaling at year's end, and it inspired me to do my own version:

Favorite outfits of 2009:

Dressy/casual

Contents of my purse. Highlights for me include tripled-up asthma inhalers (for panic attacks—ha). Earplugs for car rides with too many kids. Lists, lists, and more lists. A giant packet for picking fresh fruits and vegetables (never used). Grocery price deals from 2006. Can you believe it all fits in there?

Calendar Highlights

January: Night tubing. Rob sees the light at the end of his 4-month tunnel. 

February: Rob goes back to work for Moss. 

March: Hackings visit from New York! Mr. Self starring as Thorn in Mia's Side.

April: Late-night egg hunt by flashlight with Cattens. Rob's "no conflict" campaign. I start playing indoor soccer after a 13-year hiatus. 

May: Elle spills A LOT of milk in the front room. Several rookie and professional attempts to eradicate the stench. Pulled up the wall-to-wall carpeting. Twice. Wadsworth's visit! Man camp at Lake Powell. I get mono. 

June: MK's barf-day. Built a kitchen desk (-er someone else built it). School's out. 

July: Laguna Beach. Knott's Berry Farm. St. George with Wadsworths. Dance Utah. Hiking the "Y." 

August: Hell Week for high school soccer tryouts. Doubled-up tackle football schedules. School is back in session. MK gets her braces off! Pool party.

September: Dew Tour. Football in a big way. High school soccer JV/V games.  

October: Odyssey's Thriller production. Dousing the dining room walls in Chocolate Soufflé (the color, not the food). BYU and Snow College football games (go Clint!). 

November: Our fun-loving, sociable, up-for-anything-on-a-moment's-notice McKenzie is ALIVE and kickin'! (Leaving Riverton just about knocked her flat.) Jazz games. Grant and Tonya move to Alpine! Back to MBA school for Rob. Eight months to go....

December: Class talent shows and invite to perform in the teacher's lounge ("Wow, Mom, I didn't even know this place existed....")