Saturday, January 1, 2011

2010 - A Reflection

Here are some highlights from the year (in no particular order):
- Mark finishes his commitment to the Air Force.
- Mark joins the faculty at the University of Oklahoma Children's Hospital.
- We vacationed with friends to the Plainview Cabin in Cowles, New Mexico. It was Ellen's first time at the cabin in 10+ years!
- Ellen continues to love her job and will be able to work part-time as a project manager at the food bank in 2011.
- The Oklahoma City Thunder! We went to the third game of the playoffs. The crowd was electric and the Thunder won!
- Ellen's parents celebrated their 60th birthdays.
- Mark ran his 2nd half marathon.
- The death of Ellen's grandmother and her Uncle Fred.
- Mark's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and she has courageously gone through chemo and radiation.
- We made two trips to St. Louis.
- We continued our tradition of attending one MU football game a year by going to the MU vs. IL game.
- Finally visited Tulsa with our dear friends the Sips.
- Celebrated our five-year anniversary in Dallas!
- Broken elbow at 34 wks pregnant.
- Ellen finally overcame her fear of needles due to the pregnancy and elbow surgery!
- We started a garden and a compost.
- Ellen agrees to a family room addition to the house. (This is at least five years away, but Mark wanted it in writing.)
- 2010 was the year of babies!!
- Thankful for family and friend support over the last year!

Everything Clark in 2010:
- Finding out we were going to have a baby!
- Sharing the news with our friends and family
- Feeling Clark in the womb through constant movement and hiccups!
- The anticipation of not knowing if we were going to have a boy or girl
- Baby showers! So many people wanted to celebrate his upcoming arrival with us.
- Meeting Clark for the first time
- All the firsts since! It has truly reshaped our life in the best way possible!



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1 comment:

tclark2410@aol.com said...

Oh, your little bambino! If it were up to me his feet would NEVER touch the ground. I can still feel him in my arms.

It still chokes me up to read about the death of "Uncle Fred." And I'm going to put Mark's mother on my prayer list. All the best to her.

Much love, Terry