2010 in Summary- non-school related version

Dad’s got homeschool pretty much covered, but not the rest of our lives, so here’s our 2009 in summary!

January:
It snows a lot… everyone’s toes are cold and we make tamales and go go-karting at Pigeon Forge with friends and 25 Random Things on Facebook is big.

February:
I take the ACT. That’s it. February is always such an uneventful month.

March
Amigurumis are made, we go to Georgia to visit good friends and go to the World of Coke, and we see FIDDLER ON THE ROOF(!!!) I turn 15.

April
Aunt Julia comes to visit and we do awesome things like make bread and play card games and go to garden nurseries!

May
Swimteam starts up again, the whole family gets temporarily fired up about the garden, we all cook a lot and go to the history museum, and we go to a paintball get together in the Charlotte area.

June
Christian and I laugh it up with the swimteam buddies, Christian owns his events, I do something weird to my arm in mine, and we all enjoy summertime.

July
Tio Jorge, Tia Mary, Jorgito, Valeria and Brandon all come down for a visit, we celebrate the fourth of July with the Mathises (early fireworks!!) Dad and Christian complete the cat tower, my friend Danielle stays with us for a weekend, Betty Blonde turns 1, Betty Blonde T-shirt is released.

August
We go to OREGON!! There, we are greeted at Portland’s green-and-purple carpeted airport by awesome friends. We stay with Grandma and Grandpa, visit old friends and wonderful cousins, and best of all, go to Boring for a work day and to Saginaw for convention.  It went by too quickly! School starts up again. 8th grade for Christian, 10th grade for me.

September
Conventions continue… we go to Denton and Shelby and see our Southern friends. Christian turns 14.

October
We go to another get together in the Charlotte area (different people), carve pumpkins, play soccer with friends and sing hymns.  Christian and I have a Halloween party + ice skating.  I am the Cat in the Hat. Christian is a newspaper vending machine.

November
MEXICO!  We go to Thanksgiving dinner, my quincenera, a wedding, and lots of carne asadas!  We get to see all our beautiful little cousins and all our beautiful older cousins.  We are lucky to have seen both sets of cousins in one year!

December
We start the annual Christmas puzzle, Jenna and I do a lot of baking, Dad works hard, Mom works hard, we have a lovely Christmas, and we ring in the New Year with our now traditional call to the Joyces.