Broke before the baby arrives

Fertility Update:

I just learned the monthly cost of my fertility meds... $225! Yikes! I was not expecting that. I'm praying it happens right away so we don't have to drain our HRA before the baby even arrives. It will be all worth it though :) So fertility update, I started taking Clomid today and will take it for the next 5 days.. So far so good. I go in on February 8th for an HSG test to make sure that my fallopian tubes are open and my eggs can move easily on down. They will inject me with dye and take a few xrays. Should be pretty easy. On February 14th <3, Jay and I have an appointment to "count our eggs". We'll go in and see if my eggs have matured enough to be released. If they are ready we'll have to administer Ovidrel (trigger shot) to release my eggs and then its up to us! I'm excited to get this going!!! 

Today has been CRAZY at school. We had a pep rally and that always makes the kids bonkers. It also takes away my lunch break so I have eat on the run. My cheerleaders did such a good job today and I am sooo proud of them. I don't have the video of today's perfomance but I do have another one I'm going to link up!

Food Update:

Last night for dinner I made a really simple but delicious meal. Trader Joe's apple flavored chicken sausage with sweet bell peppers and carmelized red onions. I sauted the onions and peppers for awhile then add the cut up chicken sausage and saute until its all hot. I also did roasted zucchini, squash, and Trader Joe's sweet potato spears. I am NOT a huge sweet tator fan but these were AMAZING. I would eat them all the time. In fact I think I'll have em for snack this afternoon. Yum.

Breakfast: 

Egg Omelet (which I did not drop on the floor today like I did yesterday!)

Berry Green Smoothie

Snack:

Skipped for today

Lunch:

Apples

Snack:

I'm starving! I'll probably have some Trader Joe's Honey Greek Yogurt with almonds and some carrots

Dinner:

Hmmm. Haven't planned that one yet. Maybe we'll go out for something. I've pretty much used up my weekly stock of veggies. Got lots of meat though. Pork chops and sweet potatoes? 

And so it begins!

I had another appointment with my fertility doc this morning. Strangely I feel a sense of comfort when I'm there. You arrive and are sent upstairs for blood work and sent back down for ultrasounds. You're there so often that the nurses who work in the lab know you by name. We are all there for the same reason and secretly rooting for each other with kind smiles and polite exchanges on the elevator.As much as I like the clinic, I'm will be so excited to be done with that place (meaning we're pregnant!)!

Today's appointment went well! I'm starting on Clomid tomorrow. I'm going to take clomid for 5 days and then a week after I stop the medicine I'll go in for an ultrasound to check on my eggs. If they have matured and are ready to go I'll be given a shot of Ovidrel which will trigger my eggs to be released. Please pray that everything goes perfect and that this works on the first cycle!

Last night's meal was sooooo good. Salmon was delicious, pretty healthy, and super easy to make. After dinner I was still on the hungry side so I made another berry green smoothie (only 2 WW points) and some popcorn. Definitely did the trick! I need to figure out what I'm going to do for tonights dinner.

Today's Breakfast:
Egg white omelet with peppers, ham, onion, and fat-free cheese
A Berry Green Smoothie.
2 Chocolate Chip Cookies (don't fault me there is a bake sale going on for a good cause!)

Snack:
Apples

Lunch:
Grilled Chicken Salad
Carrots
Celery

Snack:
Trader Joe's Honey Greek Yogurt
Almonds

Dinner:
?

I'm also heading to the gym for a little zumba and a 2 mile run. Take that cookies!!!

Furniture Update: I bought these chairs on craigslist and my Dad is bringing them home from Atlanta next week. Woo Whooo! Planning on painting them antique-y white and reupholstering with a tan/linen fabric and nailhead trim.

I'll be back to update with a dinner recipe!

A Berry Green Smoothie

So part of having PCOS means that I am extra susceptible to weight gain, the inability to process insulin, and a serious craving for carbs (oh so that explains it!). I've been trying to lose weight and got thrown off with my parents moving, trying to have a baby, bronchitis, flu stuff. After my appointment yesterday I am back on the healthy kick for my sake and my future children's.

So for breakfast today I ate an egg white, bell pepper, ham, and fat-free cheese omelet. YUM. My omelet was accompanied by my first every Berry Green Smoothie, a new creation. Here's the (soft) recipe.

1/2 cup Almond Milk
1 cup Trader Joe's Green Plant Juice
1 1/2 cups Trader Joe's Frozen Berries (blue berries, strawberries, and raspberries)
1 large handful of spinach

Blend all ingredients together. Feel free to play around with the proportions. It was a greenish-maroon color (very appetizing) and delicious. It was the perfect sweetness and super healthy!

Snack today is celery and 1oz almond butter for a snack. Salad with grilled chicken for lunch. Cucumbers, carrots, and apples for munchies during the day, and blueberry greek yogurt with almonds for my afterschool snack.

Dinner will be weight watchers glazed salmon, roasted butternut squash (my friend Adri's blog, a great place for whole food healthy recipes), and salad.

Recipe for Salmon:

	2 Tbsp honey
	1 Tbsp fresh orange juice
	1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
	1 Tbsp hoisin sauce
	2 tsp Dijon mustard
	1/4 tsp table salt
	1/4 tsp black pepper
	1 1/2 pound(s) salmon fillet(s), with or without skin, four 6-oz pieces
	1 spray(s) cooking spray

Instructions

• Preheat broiler.
  
• Combine first 7 ingredients, and stir well with a whisk.
  
• Place fillets on a broiler pan coated with cooking spray. Brush with honey mixture; cook 12 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork, basting frequently with honey mixture. Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 fillet).

So now we know...

This morning I had my first visit with Dr. Wing at REACH (reproductive endocrinology associates of Charlotte). It's been about 7 months of trying to get pregnant with no success. Thanks to some recommendations and encouragement by friends we decided to see a specialist. Best thing we could have done! After a half-hour chat with Dr. Wing he guessed that I had PCOS or Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, a luteal phase defect, and dysfunctional ovulation. A quick ultrasound confirmed his diagnosis and within minutes he was discussing a treatment plan.

Dr. Wing and his nurse could not have been nicer! I know it seems odd that I'm excited about having fertility problems, but I'm just so thankful that they seem easy to fix and that I've found a doctor that really listens and wants to help us have a baby!  I feel like I'm in such good hands and am so excited to start treatment and hopefully meet our baby in the next year :)

I'll go in Thursday to begin the first of several rounds of hormone testing and ultrasounds. I'm going to start taking a medication that improves the quality of my eggs. (If you are interested in learning about the therapy, click here) Around the time of ovulation, the doctor will give me a shot that tells my body to release the egg. From there on I'll take hormone supplements to make sure that our little embryo sticks and we become pregnant. Please keep us in your prayers as we begin this new adventure!!!

BTW- It may seems weird that I'm sharing this on my blog but I'm hoping that anything I share will help any of you who will ever struggle with infertility or have questions in the future. 

Good stuff

So today is day #3 with the flu. I woke up to some very sweet texts from church friends hoping for my speedy recovery and offers for homemade chicken noodle soup. I've haven't had much of an appetite and look like a rag-a-muffin so I declined visitors. 

Couch aka Infirmary and my two nurses (since my husband is off playing tennis!)

I've watched our entire DVR and some Law & Order reruns. Now that I'm bored with TV, I've taken to craigslist shopping for new dining room furniture and researching houses for my parents. I've discovered one of the best things about them moving to Atlanta is that Atlanta's craigslist is WAY more awesome than Charlotte's. And with my Dad now living in ATL, he can bring things home on his weekend visits (that is if he will allow something second hand in his car... very picky about furniture that one). I'll also have to convince him to drive the Tahoe, which is doubtful. Maybe I'll just have to make the trip down there soon! 

So I'm still looking for those Louis XV chairs. If you find any under $100 a chair buy them for me! Haha! 

I'll leave you my housing pick for the 'rents! Pretty classic Georgia if you ask me!

BTW- If you've wondered why the blog posts have increased, its because I'm now blogging on my circa 2003 Dell Laptop, last used: The ZTA house. Dad fixed her up for me and now she's running faster than the circa 1999 desktop that Jay and I have thoroughly enjoyed. Haha!

A little update: I think Jay is beginning to feel sorry for me because he just agreed to take-out sushi from Nikko for dinner tonight. 
YYYYYEEESSSSSSS!!!!

Today Sucks

Maybe later in this journey I'll come back and write about why, but for now I'll just leave you with today sucks.

Decorating help!

I feel like this is the only thing I post about because I can't upload pictures anymore because my computer is still dead! It needs a new power cord and a new hard drive because mine is full. I don't particularly want to purchase and install a new one but I'm sure you don't really care either way. 

So more about the house...

I want my dining room to look like this:

via decorpad.com

Things I need include some great queen anne chairs, a farmhouse style table, wallpaper (not sure of the color yet, maybe chocolate?), some glass lamps and silk shades, and my husband to put up a LOT of molding (luckily molding is his favorite house project so that shouldn't be a problem!). 

NEXT:

I would like to make over my family room/kitchen area. Right now we don't have an eat in kitchen and i feel like we need a table. Whenever we have people over we gather in the kitchen and usually eat a meal in front of the TV. I would like to convert my family room to a dining area/sitting room in front of the fire place. This would involve moving my sectional downstairs and getting rid of our leather furniture. Or possibly moving the soft leather couch in our office upstairs. Either way I want to incorporate a wing chair that my mother-in-law gave us. Its a very pretty green pattern but I'm not sure how much it will fit into "vision". I'm thinking of slipcovering the wing chair like  Three Boys did.

Her Before

And After

What do you think?! The only problem is that I'm having problems finding the exact slipcover she used and I'm very picky. I don't want a stretchy microfiber one. Yuck.

Also on the list is redoing my grandmother's vanity. Jay and I now have to be at work at the same time and in my perfect world I would build a bigger bathroom (and master bedroom for that matter) but my real financial world says "I think not!". So instead I'm going to get rid of my bedside table and use the vanity instead. I'll now have a place to get ready without fighting Jay for the mirror, while my makeup falls in sink filled with water and the remnants of his shaving cream.

My vanity looks something like this but in a cherry stain. I think I want to paint it white and do a little antique-ing. The bench is a horrible floral pattern and is begging to be recovered. 

Whoa. Just found this vanity on restoration hardware. I'm in love. In my perfect world. 

And for my next decor idea I want to make a headboard for our sad mess of a bed. Right now we're just mattresses on risers. This is what I want. JoAnn's fabric on South Blvd. has all designer fabrics 50% off until Sunday. I'm going to get some measurements and head on down. They've got some great stuff and it includes special order fabrics! 

Happy Wednesday!

So yesterday sucked and today's not much better.

So yesterday I learned that my parents are moving to Atlanta. I feel like I was just punched. I have been extremely stressed and anxious lately and to add this on top is well ugh.

Prayers Needed

Well this is mainly a request of my two readers, but I just called my sister Allie about our run today and she was really upset. Her ex-boyfriend's (Ryan) mom was diagnosed with lung cancer at the end of last summer. Around Christmas time she was told she had about three months to live. Today they moved her to hospice and said it will be a matter of days and hours. I couldn't even talk to her about it on the phone. It makes me ill to think about three great kids losing their mother. Please pray for their family.

Inspiration

So with inspiration from Mary Clare, I've decided that blogging at work is ok :) and probably the only way that I'll ever update this thing. So as my students type away using the program our school purchased in 1992. I'll pretend I'm working on my typing skills also.

So what to blog about... I've got lots of posts to catch up on. Fun family Christmases, our low-key New Years, our trip to the Biltmore Estate, but for now I'll start where I'm at and what I'm doing now.

My biggest thing for 2011 is to eat healthy, be active, and lose weight! This trying to have a baby has really gotten me down and when I'm feeling low I lay on the sofa and stuff my face and watch junk (which does nothing to help fertility). So I joined weight watchers (watch out Jennifer Hudson) and have started training for a half marathon (one of my leftover resolutions from last year). If you're interested, I'm following the half marathon plan found Here. I'm also going to be that annoying girl that talks about what she eats. Its like therapy for me. So stealing from MC I'm going to post a Menu Monday (and hope it lasts). So today is Wednesday and I'm behind but here goes:

Monday
Lunch- Zero Point Veggie Soup, Baked Potato with fat free cheese and Canadian bacon
Dinner- Leftovers from the holidays (I know its a little gross by this point)

Tuesday
Lunch- Zero Point Veggie Soup, Baked Potato with ff cheese, Canadian bacon, and bell peppers, spinach salad with prosciutto, zucchini, and bell peppers
Dinner- YUMMY weight watchers baked chicken recipe which won't copy and paste from the WW website so I'll have to type it later.

Wednesday
Lunch- Spaghetti squash with WW creamy tomato sauce, leftover chicken breast,
Dinner- Slow cooker burritos (WW recipe... will update when I figure out how)

Thursday
Lunch-Spaghetti squash w/ creamy tomato sauce, leftover chicken breast, salad for some greens
Dinner- WW Shepherd's pie. We'll see how this one goes!

Friday
Lunch- Leftovers
Dinner- Takeout from somewhere. I'll be chaperoning a sleepover with 40 cheerleaders so we'll see what happens!

Time to go run before cheer practice. Yay (sarcastic).

So blog... I've been a really bad blogger. I'm also resorting to texting blog posts because now that school is out I am computer-less! I think today will be the day I finally buy a new power cord to replace my dog chewed cord for my laptop and I'll be back in business. I may even clear my old pictures from my hard drive so that I have space to upload the new ones. Hell I may even update facebook photos.

So today is the first day of my new weight watchers lifestyle ( their words not mine). Let's hope this goes well. Especially considering Christmas is right around the corner! If I can make it through the holiday and lose two pounds I can do anything.

So today's plans include cleaning my house, hanging Christmas lights and mailing Christmas cards ( I mean it's not the 21st of December or anything!) I'm also excited to throw in a trip to the salon for a fresh ( I despise using that word bc my husband loves it so much) cut and color. Yay!

Merry 4 days until Christmas!

Bo's 21st and NCSU Homecoming!

We had a great time celebrating Bo's birthday over the weekend at the NCSU tailgate. All of the food I prepared was delicious and we had soooo much leftover. I was excited to catch up with so many people that I hadn't seen since college. I completely forget to take pictures, but stole a bunch from my Mom's camera.

Yum Yum Pasta

This pasta is SOOOO good and SOOOO easy! The only thing it's missing is the healthy part... oh well!

I add mushrooms to mine just because I like em! I also used whole wheat penne and about 3 tablespoons of flour because the sauce just wouldn't thicken.

Creamy Chicken Penne

Rated: Submitted By: Taste of Home Prep Time: 20 Minutes Ready In: 35 Minutes Servings: 4

"This quick-to-fix pasta dish has all the right ingredients to become a family favorite - chicken, pasta and a flavorful sauce that gets its velvety richness from cream cheese. Reduced-fat cream cheese could be used."

INGREDIENTS:

2 cups penne pasta, uncooked 3/4 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, thinly sliced 1/2 cup chopped onions 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 (6 ounce) package snow peas 1 small red pepper, chopped 2 teaspoons minced garlic

2 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon flour 1 1/2 cups milk 4 ounces PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, cubed 1/2 cup DIGIORNO Grated Romano Cheese 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh parsley

DIRECTIONS:

1.	Cook pasta as directed on package. Meanwhile, cook chicken and onions in hot oil in large skillet for 6-8 min. or until chicken is done, stirring frequently. Add snow peas, red peppers and garlic; cook and stir 1 min. Remove from heat; cover to keep warm.
2.	Melt butter in medium saucepan. Stir in flour until well blended. Gradually stir in milk. Bring to boil; cook on medium heat 2 min. or until thickened, stirring constantly. Add cream cheese, grated cheese, salt and black pepper; cook 1-2 min. or until cream cheese is completely melted and sauce is well blended, stirring constantly.
3.	Drain pasta; place in large bowl. Add chicken mixture and sauce; toss to coat. Top with parsley.

NCSU Homecoming!

Yay! I'm just so excited about homecoming this weekend. NC State is playing Wake Forest in the "family bowl" (both of my sisters when to Wake Forest). My whole family is tailgating together to celebrate my sister recently turning 21. We've planned a yummy menu centered around various dips. Here's our tailgate menu:

Hot Dips

• Rotel's Sausage Dip (a Sadow family favorite)
• Spinach and Artichoke Dip (a new one from food network)
• Buffalo Chicken Dip (borrowed from Miss Mary Clare)

Cold Dips

• Yummy Dip ( I don't know what its called but I got it from Jennifer and its yummy!)
• Veggie Dip
• Hummus (recipe from The Food Network 50 Tailgating Dips)

Hot Stuff

• Tailgate Casserole (a new one from this random website)
• Meatballs (a Keske (my Mom's fam) family tradition)  

Lots of pictures and reviews to come! Have a safe & fun weekend!

First Baby Purchase!

So no, we're not pregnant... yet, but I'm still going crazy looking at cute baby things. One of my requests has always been an antique high chair. I would definitely forgo the convinence of a highly functional plastic-y modern high chair for the look of a wooden antique that would fit in well with our decor. I've put off buying anything baby related until we see that + sign until today.


Now, here is how my no baby things rule was broken. The other night, I was over at my parents house and my mom and I were talking about baby things. I told that I wanted the rocking chair that is in the guest room at my parent's house to put in a nursery. The rocking chair is the one that my mom rocked all of her babies in and I would love to have it. I knew she had used it for all of us but didn't know how it came to be a part of our nurseries. I learned that when my Grandma would ask my Mom when she was having children, she would reply, "when you see a rocking chair in my house". So my Grandma went out and bought my Mom a rocking chair. I was born shortly after. 


After telling me this story my Mom said to me that she ought to buy me a high chair in hopes it would work like the rocking chair did. The following day, my good friend Lauren (who is awesome at antiquing. We share many emails back and forth from our desks at work with links to various craiglist items) sent me an email with a link to the most adorable dark walnut stained high chair and it was a steal! Only $50! I quickly forwarded it my Mom who loved it and decided that it should be ours. Not wanting to jinx our luck, my Mom is planning at keeping it at her house until we are sure a baby is on the way! Look at this adorable little thing! I can't wait until I have something adorable to put in it! 

Redecorating!

So I've been itching to redecorate recently. I'd like to incorporate more antiques and vintage items in my "pottery barn-esque" style of decorating. I'd decided to work on the foyer and the dining room.

Our foyer is grey and small and has horrible lighting (love the environment, hate the way the energy saving lightbulbs look. My wonderful handy husband recently titled the floors for me and his latest project is adding picture frame molding underneath the chair rail. I love how its coming together. My problem is decorating the rest of the room. We inherted this picture from my mother in law and while I love the picture, I'm not sure if I love it there. Any suggestions? Also, I'm not sure if I want to paint the lower half white or leave it grey and keep the picture molding white.

A few looks I like...
 
Image via Worthington Mill Work

We're also planning on doing the same thing to the dining room. I'm thinking of repainted the dining room also. The colors didn't turn out the exact way I wanted.

So here we are

I've just realized its been o almost two months since the last blog post.

Show Us Your Life- Living Room

So a blog that I read, Kelly's Korner, asked readers to show pictures of their living rooms. I loved the idea and spent a few hours going through all of the readers posts. My favorite decorating ideas come from other people so I've had fun looking through everyone's living rooms.

Here are a few pictures of ours from renovation phase until now. We bought our house in March of 2009. It was built in 1968 and had not really been updated since. My requirement was that the house had a basement to hold our man cave and serve as a playroom for our future kids. We've made lots of renovations and I'm proud of how far we've come! We still have a LONG way to go to make this house where we want it but we're working on it :)

First few days in the house, we got the room painted and then used it as a staging area for all the renovation supplies

Got the furniture arranged but needed to find a media cabinet. You can see storage in the back right corner too!

My fab craigslist find! Only $100

This is the view from the foyer into the living room.  I love our huge window in the front. I keep debating on putting up window treatments... I love the afternoon sunshine and we don't use this room ever so privacy isn't a concern. This is sort of what it looks like now, except we've added artwork and I change the theme around with the season. My goal this weekend is to get the shells down and start getting fall decorations up!

This is our front entry way. We recently put in tile but I don't have any updated pictures. If you walk in the front door and turn to your right you are in the living room.

Egg and Spinach Muffins

I heard about this recipe from my Sarah, my hairdresser. Sarah always has yummy good for you recipes to share with me!

Egg and Spinach Muffins
(I add mushrooms too!)

Wonderful Weekends

Now that school has started, I long for weekends. My favorite part is being lazy. Unfortunately there was none of that this weekend.

Friday concluded by meeting up with girlfriends + Jay at Monterrey for Mexican in our PJs. I'm so thankful to have friends that I can completely be myself around. We enjoyed sipping monster margaritas (who we blame for the terrible Saturday headaches) in our t-shirts, pj pants, and ponytails. We polished off the carefree night with a little vino and watching football while cuddled up on couches in the basement.

Saturday was a marathon of football games. I was at the field from 12:30-8pm with my cheerleading squads. Saturday night was the Wolfpack away game. Jay and I woke up early on Saturday, worked out and began preparing for game day. We made spaghetti, sausage dip, and cut up veggies for our guests to much on later in the evening. As you probably know, I do not get things done ahead of time. This Saturday meal prep was extremely uncharacteristic of my procrastinator self! Luckily I was "rewarded" by doing things ahead of time as the football games ran way overtime and my guests arrive before I did. Thanks to Jay the food was heated and ready to be served upon my arrival. We enjoyed spending time watching the game with Mary Clare, her new boyfriend Casey, and Jennifer and Brian. The five of us Wolfpackers enjoyed the victory and laughed until our sides hurt from telling college stories :) We had a great time reminiscing.

On Sunday I had my first experience with Pure Barre. Whew! This workout is supposed to change my body in only 10 sessions... I'll let you know how that goes! Jay and I both got to enjoy family time on Sunday. I participated in family workout with my mom and Allie. We had a blast winning all the races and enjoyed making a mess with flour. Upon clean-up, I met Jay and his mom and aunt Vic at the lake for an afternoon of sun, and house viewing (more like dreaming about my life in a lakeside mansion). Funny glitch with the lake- I was supposed to call Jay when I left the house and for some reason, recently I've been leaving my cellphone behind. Sunday was no exception. I had to stop and scrounge for change to use the pay phone at a gas station on south blvd. Lovely. The phone didn't even work and it took my last $.50 (who knew it cost $.50 to make a phone call!!!) I continued out to the lake and a nice kayaking couple let me use their phone to call Jay.

Playing Catch Up (again)

Hopefully this will be the last "catch up" post and that I will be a good little blogger from here on out. My goal is to keep this blog current by posting at least once a week! Here goes nothing!

September 8th marked our 3rd anniversary! I cannot believe it has been that long. We've been together for 7 years! We celebrated in the usual fashion of takeout Chinese food (moo goo gai pan for me and sesame chicken for Jay) and cake. Although we didn't get to eat our wedding cake, a neighbor's mother's pound cake was pretty delicious. Overall the night was uneventful as we dined and watched TV, but it's comforting knowing how happy we both are and where our lives have taken us. We may not be as rich or as successful in our careers as we would have wished by now but we are so very happy and thankful.

Happy for our home, for each other, for our animal babies, for parents who love and care about us, for God and our church, for everything we have been blessed with. I'm so thankful to have a husband who loves me so much and is never afraid to show his affection. Jay, you always take care of me and our home and I'm so fortunate to have you in my life. Happy anniversary!

Here are a few pictures of the last 7 years together.

This is our first picture together. Taken in September of 2003 at my room in University Towers our freshman year! Notice that my shirt says center of the universe. Go ahead and laugh!

At SeaWorld in March of 2004 for freshman year Spring Break.

Back to School Bash. August 2004. What was I wearing?!

March of 2005. Arriving in Mexico for our sophomore year Spring Break!

Junior year Back to School Bash. August 2005.

October 2005. Celebrating our "third" anniversary in Williamsburg, VA. 

Winterbreak in Snowshoe, WV. January 2006.

Somewhere in the Carribean. Junior year Spring Break. March 2006. 

The night we got engaged! October 1st 2006.

New Years Eve in Florida for the Orange Bowl! December 2006.

July 2nd 2007. Bringing home our first baby!

College Graduation. May 2007.

Vegas for my 23rd birthday. November 2007.

Spring Break in Philadelphia. April 2008.

1st Anniversary in Mexico. September 2008. Not the best picture but you get the point :)

March 30th 2009. Bought our first home and construction begins!

Celebrating our 2nd anniversary rafting on the Nantahala River. September 2009.

2nd anniversary trip to Yelapa, Mexico. November 2009.

Rome. June 2010.

Amalfi, Italy. June 2009.

Whew! After looking through so many years of great memories I am even more thankful for everything I have been given.