Auld Lang Syne

The end of the year is upon us. I have no idea what they will do for the New Year's glasses at Times Square this year. 2011 doesn't have two eye holes, so yet another tradition gone (or perhaps a new one involving cyclops?). But I digress. Auld Lang Syne. It's from a poem and from the Scottish would literally be "old long since." More idiomatically, it's "days gone by" or "old times." So for auld lang syne loosely means for the sake of old times. So for the sake of old times, let's do a year in review (everybody else including the whole blogging universe is doing it, so why not?).

January: we began the hunt for houses, pinning our hopes on Frankenmuth, but it was one bust after another. Malachi turned two.
February: even after expanding our housing search, we were still at loose ends.
March: we took a break from looking at houses because we were getting nowhere fast.
April: I had another birthday and we finally found a house, just around the corner from our old one. It was a bit of stress to get things done in time to get the tax credit.
May: Gabe's birthday came and with it our first whole class party. The science themed party was quite a success. The new house got a new roof and we were still awaiting our closing date.
June: we became home owners. Painting and packing consumed the month. We started a garden. Matt and I celebrated ten years of marriage.
July: Matt's grandpa passed away. We were officially out of the old house and in the new.
August: Matt I finally took our anniversary trip to New Orleans, where we had our honeymoon. We also took the boys to Crane Lake for the first time and to three of five Great Lakes.
September: Gabe became a first grader. Chi went off to daycare. Matt was no longer a first year professor. :)
October: tried to figure out all sorts of ways to get to Washington D.C. for the Rally to Restore Sanity, but realized we were being insane to try to do it and stayed home to watch on TV. Gabe was Han Solo and Chi was the Cat in the Hat for Halloween.
November: Gabe was the Pizza Man for his Thanksgiving day program. Went to see Mom and Dad and much of the family for Thanksgiving.
December: finally got to Wicked. Gabe helped lead worship with the children's choir for Christmas Eve. Santa came. We also saw much of Matt's family after Christmas.

What will 2011 hold for us? Eh, who can tell. Hopefully we'll have a lot of fun along the way.