Things I Want to Remember for 2009

January
*Mason's miraculous recovery
*Ethan's skiing trips
*Sledding in the front yard

February
*Emergency surgeries
*Comas
*Snow
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March
*Ezra cutting 2 Teeth!!
*Spring and Winter weather!
*Lots of pinching.

April
*Spencer scaring the sense out of Ethan one night! (hiding in the dark, waiting for him to sneak out! Spen has NEVER laughed that hard!)
*Wearing green so to avoid April Fool's pranks!
*Ezra's Adoption Finalization
*Ezra's Sealing
*Spencer loosing his job
*Ezra getting 2 top teeth!
*Dad day at Ethan's school.

May
*Mason turning 5
*Mom day at Ethan's school (Ethan saying his poems over and over... His part was that he was 'purple pansy that makes you want to sing'!)
*Planting our garden
*Ezra saying, "go away"
*Ezra crawling
*Road Trip to Las Vegas!
*Too much painting!
*Mason wearing a yoda hat all day.
*Saying goodbye to our Cassie
*Memorial day in Las Vegas -- long overdue.
*Ezra crawling all over in Las Vegas!!

June
*Swimming lessons
*Mason following Ezra around like his shadow
*The 'non-sleepover!'

July
*Lizett, Cindy and Grandpa coming for the 4th of July
*Fun family trip to Park City for the week!
*Presidential suite
*Ezra's constant eating everything on the floor
*Fireworks
*Hartshorn visitors for Evan's baptism
*Eating from our huge garden

August
*Stewarts visiting from Illinois
*Shaw visiting from Washington
*Tent sleeping in bedrooms and the basement
*Lake Powell. Always too short! Perfect weather.
*First day of 1st grade!!! 2 recesses without the teacher watching! Art club, Orchestra!
*First day of Kindergarten! He can't be this old?!
*Loosing my Honda Odyssey (sad) and having to buy a grand caravan to replace it... (sad) while Spen was gone for 2 weeks!

September
*Ethan starting to eat 'hot lunch'  very exciting!
*Mountain biking with Ethan
*Soo much Uno!!
*Ezra standing, but not on purpose!
*Emergency Root Canal
*Ethan's mouth sugery predicament

October
* Las Vegas trip for conference...
* Las Vegas trip for hole diggin.  Fun times in hospital with swine flu.
* Ethan gets swine flu
* Turning 31 - lame
* Spen turning 33 - funny!
* Halloween, Anikin Ethan, Yoda and Pumpkin Ez, Pirate Mason, Ladybug mom, and swingin' dad
* Ethan's Halloween program at school

November
* Spen gets a job!!!
* Ezra climbing everything!
* Hosting my first Thanksgiving ever.
* Ezra officially deciding to walk on the 20th
* Ethan's violin / orchestra concert.
* Missing Black Friday shopping with my sister...

December
* Ezra watching snow for the 1st time.
* Ezra's 1st haircut on the 7th.
* Helping at Ethan's school.
* Ethan playing Superman on the piano.
* Building Mt. Everest
* Getting a job.
* Finding all of Ethan's lost items at school
* Christmas lights at temple square with all the fog
* Checking Ethan out of school "for no reason!!"
* Skiing
* Generous friends and family
* Secret Santa
* 12 days of Christmas prizes
* Christmas break with kids.
* Tax school over!