What a year 2009 has been for the Lee family! God has blessed us so many ways in this second year of our marriage!
I just wanted to take a moment to share with you all the joyous events we have experienced in 2009, and praise God for what he has done in our lives!
1) Deciding that we want to make traveling a regular part of our family's life Cameron and I decided to sign up for the Disney Vacation Club, a timeshare through the Disney Corporation. We are super excited about all that this investment will bring in the years to come for ourselves and future little ones, and have already been able to stay at Disney's Grand Californian Hotel twice this year. So if we haven't come to visit you and your family recently... we'll make our way around sooner or later!
2) Both Cameron and I underwent minor surgeries in the early spring this year, and we are grateful that they both went smoothly, the cost was low, and we recovered very nicely!
3) We brought home a new kitten, Jazz! He has added quite a bit of laughter, scolding, playing, surprises, and general "cuteness" into our home. We brought him home a teeny tiny teacup fit-in-the-palm-of-your-hand size 6 week old kitten, and today at 9 months old he is just under 12 pounds!!
4) An off-season getaway weekend to Big Bear found us enjoying ourselves in an almost deserted ski town last spring. It was nice to explore the town feeling like we owned the place. Very relaxing.
5) Always one to love the sound of wedding bells, when our friends Julie and Jeff got married this summer in central California we decided to make the most of the weekend (which happened to be my birthday weekend as well) and booked a room at the eclectic Madonna Inn. We ended up staying in two rooms that weekend - "Currier and Ives" and "Mountain Cabin". It was a great weekend with college friends, Catan, the wedding was beautiful, the day before and the day after the wedding were absolutely gorgeous, and we ended the weekend off with a brunch with friends at a local bakery in down town San Luis Obispo and off to a vinyard for some wine tasting. We stopped in the little town of Solvang for a walk around the block and some ice cream before heading the rest of the way home.
6) And then came the trip we had been looking forward to all year! We were off to England in October - first to see the sights in London for five days and then over to the city of Poole to visit Grace and Richard Sanders and their little ones. There are so many amazing things to see and experience in London, historical sights, street performers, bright lights, incredible architecture, the river Thames, double-decker buses, the Underground (subway system - "Mind the gap"), the theatre... and we did our best to see at least a glimpse of as much as we could. Then the REAL adventure began... driving! My brave husband got behind the wheel for the next three and a half days and drove us safely over to our friends' and around the countryside sights - all without a GPS system! Praise the Lord for his protection!
7) After all the "playing" we were able to do this year, the Fall of 2009 brought us an amazing business opportunity that we decided to dive into head-first. We are now the proud owners of OC Tae Kwon Do, open for business since October 19, 2009. We both work for Mesa Energy Systems still during the day, and spend our afternoons and evenings at the dojang teaching, organizing, planning, and preparing. We currently have 15 students committed for at least a year and are confident that there are many more just around the corner!!
So here's to 2009. A memorable year. Another year that God has kept us trusting in Him, leaning on Him, seeking His will, waiting on His answers... blessing us in so many ways!
