Monday, January 5, 2009

A Look Back

On New Year's Eve we sat down to a candlelight dinner of home made pizza and made a list of significnat happenings of 2008. They are, in no particular order:


  • River trip through Desolation and Greys Canyons (see june 08)
  • Darren first to descend Middle Fork of Salmon in 08
  • Darren and boys one of the last to descend Middle Fork of Salmon 08
  • grass!
  • planting 300+ trees
  • LOTOJA
  • Justin made deacon
  • Justin says goodbye to his appendix
  • books we read
  • Paige baptized
  • skiing
  • Y not Tri
  • Bryce Canyon 5k
  • Lisa finally beats her time in Spudman
  • Darren's first Spudman and rafting Murtuagh in same day (cuckoo)
  • Zipline
  • new niece born
  • Justin finally reads a book Brady recommended :)
  • Darren in bishopric
  • Brady pitches 6 strike outs in a row
  • Great Grandma Harrison dies at 97
  • White Rim Trail
  • Tahoe Relay
  • cats (present and past, RIP)
  • 3 kids in piano
  • Paige gets ears pierced
  • mtn. biking
  • swimming in Dierkes
  • Justin gets first shotgun
  • Brady gets first pellet gun
  • Paige gets first BB gun
  • raising chickens
  • slaughtering chickens
  • soccer, basketball, cross country
  • loving our backyard!

After all my complaining about Christmas I do have to say that I love a new year. There's something about a clean slate, hope of good things to come, the promise of doing better next time, making lists, and not having had a chance to mess up yet.... Maybe by Christmas my slate is so dirtied that I'm just ready to wipe it clean and get rid of the clutter, literally and figuratively. I love it when the clutter of Christmas is put away!

2 comments:

Catherine Andrews said...

I am glad that you had a great Chrismtas. I hope that your new year is a great one!!

Heather said...

What a busy and fun year! I missed the message about cats present and past - is Lucky still with us?