2009 Year in Review part 2

April 2009

On April 4th it was Jason versus the tree and the tree won. On Sunday,
I took him to the ER.
The doctor at his follow-up appointment was very surprised at how
swollen his ankle was!

May 2009

The ultrasound! We learned that we were having a boy and it occured to me that I wanted to name him Thomas as soon as I found out. (I actually thought of "Tommy" but I'm not big on nickname-sounding names.) I spent the next several months saying we were still thinking of names, and I may have changed my mind, but I didn't.

My great aunt Jo passed away and I attended her funeral on the 6th.
On the 15th, Brenda told me she had a dream I would name my baby
something that meant "genuine jewel."
I looked up the names that meant this and they were pretty silly.
Joanna stood up on the dining room table after she climbed up into the
chair. I was pretty convincing that she shouldn't do that again!
On the 16th, Dad, Brenda, and Caronna watched Joanna while Jason and I
went to see "Taken" and went shopping.
On the 17th, Joanna and I went to visit mom after church while Jason
did the grocery shopping.

On the 23rd, we left for vacation to Hilton Head.

June 2009

Attended Ashley's shower.
We refinanced our home mortgage.
Sheryl took Joanna to the movies.

July 2009

Started looking into new phone plans. I got tired of paying over 80
bucks every month! The phone company lowered the cost to $72 (after
allt axes and fees) and I put up with the phone bill a few more months
until I found something new.
Started doing the fetal movement chart to keep track of the baby's activity.
Ashley watched Joanna for a week and both seemed to have fun.
Brenda watched Joanna for several days later in the month.
Our sunday school friends had their baby.
I went to a meeting in Chattanooga.
I finished up a web site redesign at work and had some friends from
the non-profit organization review it for me.
We went to see Harry Potter!
Ashley's baby was born!
My obgyn changed practices and we had to deal a little bit with
refunds and payments.

August 2009

We watched "The Hurt Locker" and ate out at a Japanese buffet.
I had plans to tour the hospital but totally forgot!
I got my hair cut! It was soooo long.

September 2009

Jason, Jon, and Dewayne went to the UTvs W KY game.
Attended Stephens Family Reunion.
September 9, I thought surely I would go into labor, but not. It was Labor Day!
On the 15th, Thomas Michael was born!

October 2009

Joanna turned two!
Joanna and Thomas had checkups.
Joanna got Swine Flu.

November 2009

Jon left for boot camp.

I had a birthday.

2009 Year in Review

I may have done a lousy job of writing this past year, so to make up
for it, I am going to do a "year in review" the best that I can using
my old planner pad calendar before I tuck it away and begin using the
new one. I should probably go back through my pictures, too. But this is what I have time for!
This is by no means meant to be complete...

January 2009

We bought a nice Broyhill couch for Mom and took it to her on the
Saturday after her birthday (next day) in the rain. We met some nice
folks, Betty, Jim's sister. The couch was a fantastic buy. It was 200
bucks, plus an end table that we kept for Joanna. Tub was at mom's and
helped Jason bring in the couch. Mom was in her P.J's and Sally and
Duane came by. I returned the tarp to Betty later in the week one day
on my way home from work. That day I had to drive by their house
because a tree was down on the main traffic vein in to work. Several
of us caravaned home from work because we had never gone this other
way before.

The non-profit group's web hosting account expired at the awful web
host, so I bought a new hosting account through another vendor (who 10
months later was attacked by hackers and destroyed the business while
I was on maternity leave). I set up Joomla! and TikiWiki as a test and
liked TikiWiki best. It took about 5 days to completely redo the
website with a Wiki. Not bad for the first time.

We went to Texas for a wedding. We had a really nice time! Joanna
danced on the dance floor and was the biggest fan of the band. She won
the hearts of many! Oh how cute! We visited a cave and saw a fish in
the pond at the end of the cave. A bat was covered with condensation
and looked icy. I loved the baby sling on this trip.
We ate Mexican downtown and were serenaded by an authentic Mexican
guitarist. We flew on a plane with Joanna in our laps. She did pretty
well. Most folks commented that they had no idea a child was on the
plane, but I know the folks immediately in front of us surely knew,
but they were good sports.

I was working out pretty consistently by going to 6 am workout classes
at the gym. Jason helped me out by taking care of Joanna in the
morning after I left. Sometimes she'd get up right after I left,
sometimes she slept on. On average, this was pretty good. It didn't
last though, because I found out I was pregnant and started to get
super tired. I couldn't even drag myself out of bed. I needed my rest,
so I took it! I took a pregnancy test on Jan 26 and was in to my obgyn
on the 29th. I even had the confirmation ultrasound that day.

Andrew had his birthday and we went out to dinner at Texas Roadhouse.
The service was so SLOW! Jason and I took turns walking around the
place with Joanna, who said "Hi" to nearly everyone and was excited
about seeing some other kids.

February 2009

I started back to work full time the second week of this month. I
helped plan a meeting for the non-profit that took place this month.
Joanna "flapped" her arms like a bird when we were playing and I told
her to "flap her arms." We were watching Dora the Explorer and singing
a song about what the animals do.

We met Rachel, Jason, and Chris and Tracy at Olive Garden for Rachel's birthday.

March 2009

Found a replacement web master for the non-profit's web site. Whew!
She didn't start till July/August, though.
On March 6, I got to hear Thomas' heart beat for the first time.
We thought of the name Jina or Gina for a girl, it means "Queen."
March 10th, Joanna said "more water" while we were brushing our teeth.
The next day, I took her with me to an appointment and she had a nice
time playing with a toy house there. On the way home, she sang "Ba ba
black sheep" (sort of) from her car seat singing to herself. So sweet.
"The future is no place to place your better days" - Dave Matthews.