Goodbye 2010

January

• Several snow days in a row made for some extra time with Hannah. Everyone had fun playing in the snow and we even built a baby snowman and tried sledding.
• Listed the house for sell after several remodel projects were completed.
• Made a contract to begin building the new house.

February

• Attended the circus
• Builders completed the siding on the new house in the entirely wrong color.
• Found out that bad guys don't wear underwear

March

• The rabid skunk incident of 2010. Geez I couldn't make this stuff up!
• More house showings.
• New house gets concrete drive, and sidewalk. Exterior is finished.
• Hannah wins several reading awards at school.

April

• Received an offer on the house. Negotiated and sold house.
• Movers arrived April 29 to pack our belongings.
• Will got confused over a lemonade stand from the past.
• Birthday parties for kids combined at Bounce Barn.
• Vacationed for spring break in Panama City Beach

May

• Moved in with Poppie and Nana until schools out.
• Vacationed in Daytona Beach.
• Closed on new house and moved in.

June

• Unbearable heat = lots of pool time.
• Official swimming lessons for kids.
• Will gives DNA sample

July

• Pool parties, visits from family and finally getting settled in.
• Hannah read 70 some odd books for the summer reading program at the library.

August

• The "Mystery Man" begins locking doors at random at our house. Since that first time at least a dozen inside doors have mysteriously been locked and closed so that you can't get into the room.
• Hannah starts first grade, and loves it!
• Will and I settle into some kind of routine by ourselves and try to even get a little preschool work done with him as well.

September

• Will decides that after seeing this huge Lab at the park that he has to have one. Continues to pester me the rest of the year about it.
• I turn a year older, and we all take a week off for fall break.

October

• Hannah was a Dalmatian puppy and Will was a giraffe for Halloween.
• Made a trip to Winchester to party for Halloween and visit family.
• Visited the pumpkin patch with friends.
• Will observes the "Dead Cat"
• Hannah lost her first tooth on Halloween night!

November

• Daylight savings time messes up all of our sleep patterns, as if Will needed any help with that.
• Lots of fun with neighborhood kids, our kids love having friends close by.
• Thanksgiving in Winchester takes an unusual turn when my grandfather ends up sick and in the hospital. First year ever that we haven't had everyone together for Thanksgiving.

December

• Kids loved decorating this year. They are really getting into all of there special ornaments that Aunt Lovey gives them each year.
• We begin a Christmas Countdown with the Hallmark ornament and the kids commence in trying to make me even crazier than I already am.
• Spent 10 days in Winchester leading up to Christmas. So nice to spend time with everyone again.
• Round out the year with Flu for Hannah and I. Still working on getting rid of that.