See the 2010 Calendar for a more complete overview of important dates.

February 7
Grandpa Nelson's
B-Day

February 7
Send a card to a friend day

February 8
Dad's
Birthday

February 10
Umbrella Day

February 12-28
Vancouver Winter Olympics

February 14
Valentine's Day

February 14
Chinese New Year

February 15
President's Day

February 17
Random Acts of Kindness Day

February 19
National Chocolate Mint Day

February 21
Ryan's Half Birthday

February 22
International World Thinking Day

February 26
Tell a Fairy Tale Day

February 27
Polar Bear Day

February 28
Mom's & Goobi's Half Birthday

April 19, 2010
Boston Marathon

February - and God saw that it was good.

Eilonwy - Goddess of July

2009 in Photos

2008 in Photos

Past Years

8 February 2010, Monday

7 February 2010, Sunday

The clouds on Groundhog Day didn't actually arrive till the evening, so the Tucson groundhog saw his shadow that morning. And that's great news! Because the weather right now is absolutely perfect. I love this time of year. I'm just sad that it only lasts for a few weeks.

Happy Birthday Grandpa Nelson! He'd be 97 today.

We're going to watch the commercials this afternoon. I'm going to write at least one card today for "send a card to a friend day" and get it in the mail tomorrow.

1 February 2010, Monday

Welcome to February. Today is 01/02/2010. And that's pretty darn spiffy. (Thanks Mr. Me for pointing that out to me.)

And that's about it for now.

Tomorrow is Ground Hog Day. I know we'll be celebrating here - watching the news for Phil's prediction, watching the movie with the same name (that's Brett's idea), and I've even thought of a special ground hog day inspired dinner. I'll let you know how that goes.

They're forecasting clouds for tomorrow, so that would mean an early summer. Except we live in Arizona, so I don't know if that's really something to be excited about. Have you seen the summers here?

27 January 2010, Wednesday

So January has been busy. Brett and I went on our big honeymoon trip to California the first of the month and had an amazing time. We missed earthquakes, bad weather, and large crowds. We took a lot of pictures and put them up on our family blog (Disneyland, SeaWorld, San Diego Zoo, San Diego).

Then we came back and school started back up for me. I'm taking two classes this term and teaching an undergraduate class. It means my day to day schedule is real weird, but at least it's normal from week to week.

We had our house decorated wonderfully for Christmas. Decorating it for normal is taking just a bit more time, but I'm having fun with it and Brett thinks it all looks good.

It's good to settle into our routine.

1 January 2010, Friday

29 December 2009, Tuesday

There are still a few days left in the year, but I think it's safe to say that I have the pictures I want to make a year-in-review of me this year. Unfortunately the only picture taken of my face in February was taken by someone at a ward party who never got around to getting the photos out. And the only picture taken of me in May was so I could renew my passport. But you get the idea.

Click the small photo to get a screen-sized version.

• January - went to a political raly against proposed educational budget cuts.
• February - spent the whole month with my thumb in a brace.
• March - Pi party and Ides of March party.
• April - Mom came to visit so we took her out to the desert.
• May - Renewed my passport.
• June - Brett proposed.
• July - I had a birthday.
• August - We had engagement photos taken.
• September - Brett's family came down so we took them out to the desert. (We didn't take any photos of the kidney stone incident.)
• October - Halloween!
• November - We got married! In the snow!
• December - Christmas.

It was a real good year.

(Also found on my blog.)

28 December 2009, Monday

25 December 2009, Friday

8 December 2009, Tuesday

I've attended my last class for the semester. So now it's just finishing up the last assignments and grading the last tests. It feels good to be finishing up. This semester has been an interesting one. Brett thinks there should be some kind of "you got married so you can turn things in late" thing. I told him there is, it's called "get married in the summer you crazy person." But I'm getting things done.

The house is decorated for Christmas. Now to get to unpacking my stuff. I'll have to get pictures of it up, especially for the people who saw it before. But it looked wonderful for our Christmas party/house warming/wedding open house last week.

Things are definitely settling down for a long winters nap. Or at least as long as it is between now and the start of the next semester.

The month of November is in the archives.

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