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.