The exciting things of 2009

Ok, so the new Harry Potter movie isn't what I'm MOST excited about in 2009. However, it's definitely on the list, and it was the first picture I thought of for a lead-in. Now that I'm going through the full list in my head, there are probably better pictures I could use but whatever, I've already uploaded it. Anyways, this list isn't going to be comprised of super cheezy things like "growing as a person " or "confronting the ghosts of my past" or "living and loving". These are events or activities that will have a definite date, time and place. On to the list!

1. The third and first birthdays of our two sons.
2. Kai's first crawl, walk, word, etc.
3. Our third child. Kidding.
4. Aiden starting preschool
5. Our fourth wedding anniversary . Traditional gift: fruit and flowers. Hmmm.
6. My promotion to Captain aka pay raise
7. Our first trip to "New York Citaaaay"
8. The new season of LOST. Err...I mean
9. Being half done with my Master's degree
10. A kid-free vacation...fingers crossed
11. Moving to a new house
12. The new Harry Potter movie. Obviously.
13. Making new friends at a new church and seeing old friends more often (this borders on "cheezy" but it's true and TECHNICALLY it will have a time, date and place.)
14. Buying a new computer and large, flat-screened, HD TV.
15. Getting PRK
16. More paintball
17. Making the final payment on the Honda Pilot we purchased last year :)

I'm stopping the list there because those are the things that came to my head easily. I could spend another 15 minutes trying to get the list to 20, but then why not try for 25, or 30?

:::pregnant pause:::

OK fine, one more.

18. I'm looking forward to more stories like this (transcript below for those who don't speak "excitable toddler")




Aiden: (I gotta) get his binoculars and his spotting scope and his camera and his gun and shoot all those animals away. I hear something, daddy.
Me: What’d you hear?
Aiden: A tiny, a, um a lion coming and starting to eat me...
Me: What came?
Aiden:...and I’m gonna shoot the lion.
Me: Oh a rhin..a lion.
Aiden: Uh huh. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM! Oh no. The lion, the lion ran away. Oo, I hear another animal coming. This time it’s big and bad…what you think is coming?
Me: What’s coming?
Aiden: Ooh, um, a sp.., UUM, it’s a little spider.
Me: A little spider.
Aiden: And the sp, and the little spider gets bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger, and BIGGER, and first, it was a giant spider! I’m gonna shoot that giant spider. :::grunts:: Can you pull this trigger so I can shoot the giant spider away, mom?!

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