Wednesday, December 30, 2009

2009 in review




Wow! What an amazing year!!!

Let's see if I can remember ALL the things that happened in the year of 2009 (I'll have to look in the scrapbook!):

January: Caraline turned 2 & got a "big girl bed"
Tori & Russ found out they were pregnant!

February: Katy turned 33 & Scott turned 38

March: Lydia bottle fed a calf for the first time

April: Easter was rainy this year so we hunted Easter Eggs at grandma's on Saturday.
Caraline was sick this Easter...so was my mom!
Lydia went to her first movie in the theater. We saw Earth. She loved it!

May: Lydia "graduated" from Preschool at Peace Preschool.

June: Lydia & Caraline went swimming for the first time in a "big" pool at Tori & Russ's house.
Scott's dad, Elwyn, turned 70.

July: This was the first 4th of July that we went to see the fireworks...Lyida wasn't sure she liked it!
Tori & Russ had a baby shower in Perry for Sadie.
We went on our first family vacation to Red River, New Mexico. We went with Scott's family. The girls loved it so much Lydia wants to live there!

August: We got to tour the Braum's dairy plant in Tuttle.
On August 25, Sadie Laine Furgason was born @ 1:10pm at 8 pounds

September: Lydia started Pre-K at Peace Preschool in Ms. Teri's class.
Katy took a photography class through Franis Tuttle with a friend, Sharon Schwidder. She got a new camera, a Canon XSi, and started taking pictures of friends & family.
Nana turned 60 this year! We surprised her at school & then all her family surprised her at Pizza Hut in Perry.

October: We went to Storybook Forest to trick or treat with the Cox's, Churchwell's & met the Schmidt's there to roast marshmellows. We had SO much fun! Lydia was Cinderella & Caraline was Fern & she carried the pig, Wilbur. Later on Halloween, she decided she wanted to be a princess too. So when we went Trick or Treating in downtown Edmond, I took TWO Cinderellas! Sadie was a Little pumpkin!


November: Lydia turned 5!! She had a costume party with friends on halloween & then a party with family at Nana's on the 1st.
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with Papaw's side of the family, whom we don't get to see that often.
We had Thanksgiving at Grandpa & Grandma's in Pawnee. We took tons of picture while the girls played on the hay bales & swung on the gate. I took picture of Amber & Adam & the Furgason family for their Christmas card. It was a beautiful day!

December: We went to see the tree lighting in downtown Edmond. We also watched the light parade.
The girls & I went to Perry to Nana & Papaw's church & had breakfast with Santa. We ate pancakes & got to talk to Santa. Then we ran downtown Perry to Santa's house to see him AGAIN!! The Santa's looked a little different & Lydia thought the one at church was the REAL Santa because he had a long beard!
We wrote letters to Santa & mailed them.
We had a WHITE Christmas!! More like a BLIZZARD of a Christmas Eve. 14 inches of snow!! We couldn't go to Woodward like we had planned, but we are going the following weekend.

So that was our year in a nutshell. As I look back on the last 12 months, I KNOW God has blessed us beyond what we deserve! Time together & health is a blessing that I thank God for everyday! I pray for more blessing of God's protection for our family.
Thank you God for loving us, being faithful to us & dying for our sins so that we can live forever with you in heaven!