So, while my year doesn't have quite as many landmark moments as a good friend of mine and her blog, I like the idea and so I'm gonna copy and list the things I look forward to in 2009!
January: Well, this month is almost over, but it carried one of the biggest events of my lifetime. The swearing in of President Barack Obama. I watched his inauguration (blog on this to follow) with my preschoolers, and I am so optimistic about his term of service and about what it will bring for our country in the way of change, peace, economic upturn, and an overall sense of renewed faith in what it means to be an American in our world today.
February: February brings Valentine's day to many, but to Paul and I it will also bring our 12
th Anniversary of being together. I will continue to always celebrate this date, because we spent 11 years together before our wedding, and it is time that represents us growing up forming the wonderful marriage we have now. February also brings one of my beautiful friends' birthdays!
March: Speaking of marriage... On March 15
th Paul and I will celebrate our 1st Wedding Anniversary! I am so happy to be married to him, and can't wait to watch and see how things just keep getting better and better. And for us, that's awesome because they are already great as it is. He's a wonderful husband, a fantastic papa to our boys, and one sexy firefighter to-be!
My little
Hoban will celebrate his 2
nd Birthday on March 27
th!!
May: Miss Trina's birthday, which is like a national holiday, or should be! It may very well also be the date of some other great news for a good friend of mine, but I'll not mention that quite yet....
June: A landmark birthday for another of my "girls!" I'll not elaborate to protect her youth....
(Also my fantastic apple-
fied Uncle's birthday this month.) My Beautifully Brilliantly Fantastic cousin will graduate from High school this month, propelling her college-bound into the real world where she will surely make it a much more wonderful, and more humorous place to live. She already makes it more beautiful.
July: My birthday. No landmark occasion, a simple 32. But I think Trina would strangle me if I didn't at least mention it. 2 days later, though,
woohoo! July 17
th brings the 6
th Harry Potter movie!!
August: This is my projected date of when we will hear that Paul got the job with
Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue. It's a 6-month application/interview process, so I expect the results to be ready to go by the beginning of August. =) Celebration parties to follow!!
September: I will officially become a
Firefighter's Wife. My mama's birthday is this month, as is the 19
th birthday of my AMAZING cousin.
October: Another of my beautiful friends will have her birthday. If my family is still living in the Portland area, it will be I believe our 6
th annual trip to the pumpkin patch.
November: This will be Paul's 30
th Birthday!!
Woohoo! It will also be
Gaius's 4
th Birthday! It also brings the birthday of the 6
th member of my "girls"! Also, November 20
th brings the sequel to my OTHER favorite movie, NEW MOON premieres November 20
th!
December: I have a plan for this month, but I'm not gonna share. It will be the first time in 4 years that I WILL have a Christmas tree. And maybe the 2
nd annual family trip to the beach in lieu of gifts?
So It think that's it, so far.... Lots of little positive things that remind you what life is really all about. Happy 2009!!
The outside front has one big pocket.
The inside has an ornate flower pattern of brown and gold for two sets of pockets. 
There are three pocket sections inside, and I plan on adding a zipper to the middle section one of these days.
The back side, with a larger pocket.
