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Thursday, July 10, 2008

I'm it (again)!

20 years ago:
1. I was 13 years old and we had just moved to a new town in Michigan.
2. I made my first (and best, for that year) friend at the new school because she and I both had red hair and freckles. Everyone kept calling me by her name, mistaking me for her.
3. That summer my parents had to come pick me up from Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp because I was so homesick that I literally got physically sick and fainted. It was my first time away from home for so long.
10 years ago:
1. I returned home, well, to Utah (not back to Michigan) from my mission in California.
2. I started a new job at Nordstrom in downtown Salt Lake City, working in the Holiday department.
3. I got an apartment in Provo and prepared for Spring semester at UVSC.
5 years ago:
1. Chris and I were living in Utah. Chris was back in school.
2. I gave birth to our one and only daughter, Sophia Lyn and had surgery on my ankle when she was only an infant. You should have seen me, sometimes crawling to get around to take care of three kids with a cast on my leg! Ugh.
3. We bought our first mini-van. It was a big step towards acknowledging we were a growing family; we had to let go of the idea of ever having a "cool" car! We also gave up drinking regular pop and switched to diet, it was a big year for us! Hee, hee :)
3 years ago:
1. Chris graduated from ISP academy and we were finally living in our first home!
2. We went to Disneyland for the first time.
3. That summer I was pregnant (barely) with Nicolas, and sicker than a dog.
4. Our oldest child, Noah, started Kindergarten. Another life-altering moment because once the kids start going to school, life as you know it is never the same.
1 year ago:
1. I reconnected with my dad after over 10 years of missing him.
2. We bought our camp trailer and spent a lot of the summer breaking it in!
3. Sammy started Kindergarten - two down, two to go (kids in school, that is)!!
Yesterday:
1. We woke up to the quiet and beauty of the mountains and had breakfast by the campfire.
2. I did laundry after coming home from camping.
3. I washed and vacuumed the Durango.
Today:
1. I just finished my daily workout, and doing more laundry.
2. It's Chris' last day off this week, so we'll probably take the kids to the park to ride bikes.
3. Then again, it's going to be 95 degrees, maybe we'll run through the sprinkler!
Tomorrow:
1. It's Friday, so I'll take Noah to Scouts in the morning.
2. It's time to repaint a bedroom and move some furniture around, maybe I'll get started on that project.
One year from now:
1. Anyone want to hedge bets on whether or not Nicolas has started talking by then??
2. Sophie will have finished her first year of school, and that means 3 of 4 kids in school full-time.
3. Who knows? Probably more of the same, or maybe Chris and I can run our first 10K together?? :)
I tag: Elizabeth, Annjilla, Lindsay and Katee. Good luck, ladies! It's actually harder than you'd think to remember back that far, it was for me, at least! I kept having to ask Chris "Now what year was it when..." Does this mean I'm getting old?

4 comments:

dandjyoung said...

It was fun to get to know more about you. Thanks for playing along.

Elizabeth Downie said...

Do you mean ME, Elizabeth!? I'm so flattered! But overwhelmed at the same time....I have no idea what I was doing 20 years ago.

It was fun to read what you wrote about your life! I miss you! I want to come visit you sometime. I have to meet your family! :)

Priscilla said...

Uh, yes, you...Elizabeth!! I expect some juicy tidbits. I know you can remember back, after reading your blog about Kristin and the curling iron incident...:)!!

PLEASE come visit us, whenever you want, we have a spare bedroom with your name it. Seriously, there's a nameplate right on the door. (haha)

Elizabeth Downie said...

I would love to come visit! I'll have to think more seriously about when and whatnot because it'd be great to see you and your family!

I'm thinking I might do the tag, but in a funny way. Otherwise I think it will just be too depressing to see where I'm not at compared to where I'd like to be, and how uneventful my life has been! But I'll try to think of a way to do it in a funny way :)