2009

Well, the year is coming to a close...and what a year it's been! Reflecting back, there have been so many highs and lows...times of complete elation and happiness and times of extreme frustration and sleep deprivation! Of course the highlight of the year was Samara coming into our lives. She has changed our lives so completely...and although the change is drastic, it is difficult to remember who we were, what we would be doing and what our lives were like without her. It's like she has always been part of our family...we've been waiting for her all along!

Some of the things that happened to us this year:

-Samara is born on May 2 at 2:25am after 45 hours of labour.

-Shawn gets a promotion and transfer...so 2010 will be another big year for us with our family moving from Calgary to Lethbridge. I'm sure there will be many exciting experiences that come with that.

-Shawn and I become DEBT FREE! (minus our mortgage, of course) We worked really hard to get that way...years of student loans to get us an education degree, a music degree and a broadcast engineer certificate. We had to give up certain things...we don't have the biggest house, we certainly don't have the nicest cars and we still have an ancient tube TV but all in all, it's completely worth it to not have those credit card bills and loans screaming at me while I'm trying to sleep! I've got Samara now for that! HA!

-I make a lot of great new Mommy friends who are invaluable! And got closer to my friends who were already parents.

-I gain 50 pounds.

-I lose 50 pounds! But in the process develop a flat Mom bum.

-I work my last day as Marketing Coordinator for Olympic Seismic. At the time I wasn't sure it would be my last day and now that it is...I have mixed feelings but am overjoyed that I can be a stay at home mom.

-We got to see so much of our extended families and friends in 2009. I think we have Samara to thank for that!

I hope you all had a great 2009 and all the best in 2010 from my family to yours. Thanks for visiting the blog...I'm enjoying writing it!