Adios 2010...it was a great year!!

A year in review.

We celebrated the beginning of 2010 with good friends and chocolate,......

In February we enjoyed some sunshine.

March brought Kimbers half-birthday and we kept church-shopping.

In April, we celebrated Easter and my 34th birthday.  We also worked on our garden.

May, some amazing but strenuous hiking and more fun outside.

June brought on a shopping trip in Nashville, finishing our front flowerbed, celebrating dads and enjoying the sunshine.

In July we FINALLY made some progress on the potty training front!

August was a BUSY BUSY month.  Matthew turned 3, we spent a fun weekend in Chattanooga, potty-trained some more and celebrated or not our 12th anniversary.

September brought another birthday, Kimber celebrated his first birthday.  We had some silly moments and reminisced a little.

We resumed our camping life in October and visited the pumpkin patch.

November was a crazy month.  We spent a week in Florida in an attempt to see space shuttle Discovery launch, we shared our family pictures and dealt with way too many bodily fluids.

In December, we had a white Christmas and bid adieu to 2010.

Hope 2010 was all you hoped it would be and that 2011 is pure greatness!!

Christmas Card Scoring System

From SWISTLE, a blogger who never fails to make me smile....

Christmas Card Scoring / Rating System

• Card received: +5
• Card received before December 1st: -1
• Card received after December 25th: -1
• Card is pretty, and looks nice on wall: +3
• Card is glittery: +1
• Card does not contain card, but only letter, so there is nothing to put up on wall: -3
• Card is e-card: -5
  

• Card includes photo or is photo card: +5
• More than one photo: +2 each additional photo
  
• Photo is non-Christmassy so will look good on fridge all year: +1
• Photo is Christmassy so increases holiday feeling of card: +1
  
• Red-eye causes family to appear possessed by evil Christmas spirit: -1
• Photo was taken on beach this past summer in summer clothing, so family looks chilly against winter pattern of card: -1
• Photo includes dogs with glowing eyes who seem poised to eat humans: -1

• Card includes letter: +5
• Letter is informative and interesting: +3
• Letter describes child as "amazing" or "already an avid reader at age 3!": -3 each
• Letter is so braggy and saccharine-cheery, I wonder why I associate with these people: -3
• Letter is so very braggy and saccharine-cheery, it crosses over into comical and becomes fun to read aloud in an unkind tone of voice: +2
• Letter is a sermon disguised as a Christmas letter, and contains pious hopes for our country, for mankind, and for me personally: -5
• Letter mentions details of gross surgery: -1 or +1, depending on entertainment value
• Letter contains thinly-veiled family gossip: +3
• Letter contains information that should have been told earlier: -2

• Card includes check: +5
• Large check: +10
  
• Card includes announcement of pregnancy: +10
• Card from Christmas Card Friends contains surprising news of baby born since last card sent: +10