Our Year!

Since it is just me and the boys tonight celebrating the new year to come as Dan is at work, I has an idea to make a list of our past year to look back on. We will see how many things I come up with.

1.We went shopping for a king size mattress when I was 8 months pregnant. Dan wanted me to lay down on them and see what I thought was comfortable. This is obviously coming from a man. I had to trust his judgement. I forewarned him that my water could break on the new mattress. Luckily it didn't.

2. Dan was promoted to lead man.
3. My motherinlaw taught me how to crochet. I made about 6 scarves in the last couple weeks of my pregnancy.
4.Dan went to the ER 4 days before we had Elton and found out he had gallstones.
5. The birth of our second son Elton Avery Bonnes on February 22.
6. Dan had his gallbladder removed when Elton was 3 weeks old.
7. I took 12 weeks family leave off with the birth of Elton.
8.My parents came to visit and meet Elton when he was about 6 weeks old.
9. Elton was baptised at Twin Falls Reformed Church in April while my parents were here and we had a gathering after at my inlaws.
10. I accepted a new position at work as the Childbirth Education Coordinator and went to prn on OB.
11. At the end of April we flew to Texas for a family wedding. Elton flew for his first time and Caleb was the ringbearer.
12. We got to tour Crawford, Texas (home of George Bush's ranch).
13. Caleb got to go to Chuck E. Cheeses on our trip for his first time.
14. I went to the cabin in the mountains with the boys, motherinlaw and niece for a few days before returning to work.
15. After getting home from Texas we switched realtors to try something different to get our house sold. Were very displeased with the realtor we switched too.
16. Put a contingent offer in on a house that we liked hoping ours was about to sell.
17. Made it to the family cabin once with Dan and the boys. Caleb had hand, foot and mouth that weekend.
18. Started this blog in July.
19. Received a letter from a girl I grew up with, apologizing for picking on me when we grew up. I had not seen her or heard from her since we graduated high school. This was quite a shocker.
20. At the end of July our offer on the house with the contingency expired.
21. Our house showed on my birthday (August 6th) and was the showing we sold our house on. We received the offer 2 days later.
22. We scrambled and organized as we tried to coordinate the closing on our old house and closing on a new house. The house we had previously attempted to buy sold in the one week between when our offer went up and the offer on house we were selling came in.
23.My mom flew down at the end of August to visit and extended her ticket 10 days to help us with packing and moving. She was here 2 days short of a month.
24. Our new nephew/cousin, Jackson was born at a whopping 10lbs 7oz.
25. We closed on both houses September 12.
26. We began our move September 13th and had everything moved by the night of September 14th.
27. Dan got very little sleep in the month of the house sales in stress and prep of moving. On the day we moved our furniture Dan was up for over 24 hours straight as he had to go to work that night. I prayed he would not fall asleep on his 40 mile drive either way from work.
28. At the beginning of October, friend's of ours lost their husband/dad as he fell asleep on his way home from work and hit a tree. I had to explain to Caleb that his friend's daddy was in heaven with Jesus.
29. We celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary. We went to Boise overnight to the Anniversary Inn while my parents stayed with the boys.
30. We celebrated Caleb's 3rd birthday with "Thomas The Train" being the theme yet again. He knew his whole alphabet and could count to 20 by then.
31. My parents brought down there old motorhome from Canada for our family and stayed a couple of weeks in their "new" bedroom quarters. Caleb calls it Nana and Papa Jack's room.
32. Max killed his first mouse. Who needs a cat?
33. We had a wonderful family Thanksgiving at Dan's parents' house.
34. We set up our tree for Christmas and Caleb was totally into the prep.
35. Caleb's new favorite movie became "The Polar Express".
36. We added a new puppy to our family - Bingo!
37. We had a eggnog and fondue party on the 23rd of Dec.
38. Dan had the whole Christmas weekend off work.
39. We held Christmas at our house. Dan cooked a wonderful 16 pound prime rib that was to die for!
40. We got to watch Elton grow before our eyes and accomplish many firsts.
41. Caleb and Elton became roomates in the new house and love it. Caleb tucks Elton into his crib every night and Elton has begun to return the "goodnight hug".
42. Max learned how to use a doggie door and enjoys the freedom of going in and out whenever he pleases.
43. I still attend Weight Watchers weekly if possible and am back on maintenence.
44. Dan loves that it only takes 45 minutes to mow our new yard. That beats the acre we had before!
45. Caleb gained a park only 5 blocks from our house that he calls "my park".

This was our year. I am sure I have forgotten something and may add to this later. I am getting ready to introduce Caleb to some sparkling apple cider to celebrate the New Year to start tomorrow. I feel very blessed as we enter 2006!