It's my 30th birthday year. As part of my celebrations, I thought I would take my birthday month to reflect on my life. To help, I am using some of my scrapbooked pages to illustrate my life. For each year, I've chosen a few pages to highlight that year. I hope you enjoy my look back as much as I do.

2009: A big year with lots of adventures... I just had to add an extra picture.

Page 1: The boys had their first friends birthday party. We celebrated at Chuckie Cheese and I decided we were never doing it there again! Way to crazy. But they had great fun.

Page 2: For the Spring Musical, we performed Annie. Not my favorite musical, but we had fun anyway. I really got a chance to be backstage again. Plus, I love the picture above with all my (my sposor class) sophomores in costume. Tori, Jacob, Dakota, Chelsea, Anna, and Abby did such a great job!

Page 3: Somehow I let my friend Catharine talk me into French and Indian War era reenacting. Okay, she didn't really twist my arm, I fairly willingly joined. This was our first event: Feast of the Strawberry Moon in Grand Haven, MI. And I loved it! I would continue to reenact for until moving to Nebraska in summer of 2011. Unfortunately Nebraska didn't figure in the Seven Years War, so I'm officially done with that activity.

Page 4: We also visited the family up in Naperville during the summer. The boys had great fun hanging out with their "Uncle" Ian. Alex especially loved the train themed restaurant.

Page 5: Old friends and new celebrated Sarah and Adam's wedding August. The big event of the night... reconnecting with J.