Things I enjoyed in 2009

1. 1 year of marriage!
2. The family vacation to Colorado: Hiking, biking, drinking, eating, laughing, our 14er, more drinking
3. Our mini-vacation to Chicago
4. Celebrating our 3rd Christmas in our house
5. The 100 mile garage sale with the girls
6. Getting a new job
7. Finding out that Nate and I were going to be an uncle and an aunt - Thanks Molly and Nick
8. Our new big screen TV
9. Weddings - Rachelle and Pirotte, Ben and Missy, and Art and Laura
10. Lazy Sundays
11. Our new hobby - making and finishing furniture: Our new table, some chairs, etc
12. Many other memories with family and friends

Thanks for everything in 2009 - and looking forward to an even better 2010!

Things I enjoyed in December.

1. Christmas day with the fam
2. Dinner at Fogo de Chao with Nate for our anniversary
3. Christmas eve with the Ingles and Brandells - and mom's humor
4. Christmas in Cedar Rapids with Nate's Family
5. Fondue dinner with Nate - tenderloin is soooo good!
6. Making a snowman on Christmas eve
7. Getting to see our beautiful tree every day
8. Using all of our Wedding decorations to decorate our house for Christmas
9. My awesome anniversary gift from Nate (more on that too come)
10. Both ugly Christmas sweater parties - too funny
11. CRAVE Mac and Cheese - heaven
12. Brave New Workshop with the family, my stomach and face hurt from laughing
13. Mom, Dad, Molly and I shopping and lunching downtown on our day off
14. Seeing the ultrasound of Baby Thorson - looking like a real little person now!
15. Molly's little baby bump- the cutest ever!
16. Using the snow blower - yes, I do enjoy it
17. My second month at my new job- so far so good :)
18. Wrapping Christmas presents
19. Seeing Nate's expression when he realized I got him a grill for our anniversary
20. Our New Year's eve party!
21. Derek's house warming party

Things I Enjoyed in November

1. Having a full week off before staring my new job
2. Starting my new job
3. Going to the new Gopher stadium
4. Getting to see Tim coach against the Gophers
5. Getting some of my Christmas shopping done
6. Going to the Minnesota Iowa game in Iowa City
7. Riding the mechanical bull - and lasting all 8 seconds
8. Getting to make fun of Nate because he didn't stay on the bull for 8 seconds
9. Nate's parents having my whole family over for dinner after the game
10. Getting to celebrate Thanksgiving with both families
11. Hepling Molly pick out her first maturnity clothes
12. Using the power tools all by my self to make our shoe rack
13. The bonfire at Jan and Keith's house after Thanksgiving
14. Getting to decorate for Christmas
15. Seeing pictures of Molly's second ultrasound
16. The warm weather at the beinning of the month
17. That Colby finally got over being sick
18. That it is officially Christmas
19. Fried Turkey!!!
20. Shopping with my parents for their new Kitchen
21. Christmas lights being turned on
22. Watching the Vikings continue to be awesome
23. Mashed potatoes and Gravy
24. My new apple cider recipe
25. Hanging out with the girls, while the guys celebrated Football Freedom 2009
26. Christmas music on the radio (yes - already)
27. Nate and I decorating our tree
28. More fires in the fireplace

Things I Enjoyed in October

1. Going to the Shout House with the gang.
2. Having the entire family over for the Vikings game
3. Iowa football games
4. Vikings games
5. Watching the twins coming back and winning at the end of season
6. Going to Iowa City for the Iowa Michigan Game
7. Watching the Vikings v Packers game at Amber and Greg's
8. Annie and Jeff's Costume party
9. Dying Nate's hair and beard for him to be Billy Mays (pictures to come)
10. Wearing footie pajamas for Halloween
11. Going to the apple orchard
12. Have an apple fight at the orchard
13. Watching the Iowa Michigan State game at the Sports Page
14. The bonfire at Molly and Nick's on Halloween
15. My farewell Happy hour at BI
16. The first snow fall :)
17. Fires in the fireplace

I am sure that there are many more - but those are the top!

Things I Enjoyed in September addition

Forgot one thing:

My pink tool belt from my wonderful sister and brother-in-law :)

Love it.

Things I Enjoyed in September

Sometimes I feel like I focus on all the negative stuff in life too much. And when things get stressful, I can get bogged down in ‘Woe is Me’. So, to combat that, I am going to do a list of all the things that I have enjoyed each month. I stole this from another blog, but I thought it was a good idea. Making my list below really made me smile.

1. The return of the Biggest Loser
2. Being a part of Ben and Missy’s Wedding
3. In Ben and Missy’s wedding, getting to walk down the aisle with Nate J
4. Seeing all of the GPDT (and husbands) and calling Kelly
5. Celebrating my birthday with my friends at Salut
6. Celebrating Nate’s Birthday with his friends after the Tvedte reception – Jello shots anyone?
7. Being in Indiana to celebrate Art and Laura’s wedding.
8. Spending a day in Chicago, doing the tourist stuff with Nate
9. Shedd Aquarium – see above
10. Football season- High School, College, and Professional
11. The return of House
12. The Farmers Market
13. Going to the Flea market with Ali and Annie in Elko
14. The impromptu wedding shower we threw for Laura
15. Dying my hair dark
16. Cool nights – perfect for sleeping weather
17. The Beach House, a book by Jane Green, just finished it last night
18. Pulling out all my favorite fall clothes
19. The success of the first try of homemade Creamy Tomato Basil soup
20. The Hills / The City are back
21. Lazy Friday Nights, laying on the couch with Nate and the cats

There. The things I enjoyed in September. I am sure that those of you reading were involved in a lot of them. You should try it – and if there is anything that you did that was really fun – let me know, maybe I will try it and it can be on my ‘Things I enjoyed in October’ list.