In celebration of a great year, here are my 2010 favorites:
- 2.5 years of marriage to husband and 4 years of building a relationship.
- The Ashland Shakespeare Festival.
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
- National Parks: Yosemite, Arches, Canyonlands, Crater Lake, Mt. Rainier.
- Traveling with dear friends and both of our families.
- Starting a backyard garden and having it actually grow vegetables and then being able to eat the veggies!
- Discovering Ravelry (www.ravelry.com).
- Knitting.
- Friday Night Lights.
- Netflix Instant Queue.
- Enjoying the last year of our 20’s.
- Concerts: Shawn Colvin, Zoe Muth, Patty Griffin & Buddy Miller, the No Depression Fest.
- Playing Settler’s of Cataan, Munchkin, and Carcassonne.
- Getting closer to friends at church.
- YD’s 40th Anniversary Bash.
- Mentoring and sharing life with some fabulous teen girls.
- Traveling to San Diego for and incredible week with 13 teens.
- Our friend Katie surviving the Haiti earthquake and making a full recovery.
- Singing in 2 church musicals and growing as a singer.
- Joining the AFMC worship team.
- Watching Lost with Clay and Bethany.
- Starting yoga classes at Movement Arts.
- Goonies Weekend in Astoria.
- Starting Spiritual Direction meetings with an awesome mentor.
- Enjoying some of Seattle’s best sushi restaurants.
- Wedding weekends in Dallas, Houston, and Tampa. Celebrating a new life for Brittany&Wilson, Dan&Tracy, and Matt&Kacy.
- Our church transitioning to a new Senior Pastor.
- Cabernet Sauvignon.
- Teaching from Andy Stanley, Craig Groeschel, and Henry Cloud.
- Women of Faith, especially Sheila Walsh.
- Successfully pulling off with my staff team: 8 fundraising dinners, Golf Marathon, the 40th Anniversary Celebration.
- Eating cake and watching Inception at the IMAX to celebrate 2 years of marriage.
- Smoked Gouda.
- Teavana.
- Sweet Potato Fries.
- Paradise Sushi in Arlington. Dinner for 2 for under $20!
- Mae Phim’s (Thai) Crispy Garlic Favorite Chicken.
- Lunch Specials at Asian 1.
- Reading the Bible cover-to-cover with 9 teen girls and watching it come to life for them.
- Continuing to walk through life with my tri-mails, near-daily emails with 2 of my best friends. Seasons of life change, but we continue to write and walk together after 10 years.
- Celebrating the births of best friends’ babies.
- That husband got 1st place in his fantasy football league. (Not really a highlight for me, but funny to watch husband brag all day and giggle with glee at being victorious.)