2009

Modified from a list I found on gwenbell.com's Best of 2009 Blog Challenge, here's my year in review:

Best Trip:  Disneyland

Best Restaurant Moment:  dinner celebrating my mom’s birthday at the Star in Elko, NV.  My cheeks hurt from laughing.

Best Article:  article about helping children deal with grief…from the BYU alumni magazine.  It helped.

Best Night Out:  Wicked with my family, sisters, their families, a lot of friends.

Best Book:  I read way too many to remember.  I did really like Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella.  Maybe because I read it on a lounge chair on the sunny shore of Lake Chelan.  Maybe a text book on quantum physics would have been equally delightful in that setting.

Lesson Learned:  Don’t cut Mark’s hair too short.  He hated it and it made me sad until it grew.

Best Conference:  Women’s Conference at BYU…it’s equal parts great to be with my sisters and mom and amazing to be taught for two days.  One thing that stuck with me from a talk by Carole Stephens:  We can’t have faith in our request but faith in the Lord.

Challenge:  Losing Adam’s dad.  We’re not over it yet.  None of us.

The best place: home

Best new food:  quinoa…not very earth shattering but I'd never tried it before and it’s good stuff.

Best car ride:  always the trip between here and Nevada.  I love what’s on both sides.  I love sitting next to Adam.  I love propping my bare feet on the windshield and having Adam tell me that if we crashed, my legs would break.  I tell him not to crash.

Biggest laugh of the year:  on the drive back from Canada on the 4^th of July, we listened to Real Men of Genius commercials (Adam’s brother said we’re the only people in the world that have commercials on our ipod).  We laughed until we couldn’t breathe.