Our Top 11 Fun Things From 2007
We love our awesome friends and family so Jill thought we should do a Top 10 list of fun things from 2007. Since Letterman might have that trademarked, this one goes to 11.
11) Our awesome friends and family. You've been mentioned already, so let's keep this moving.
10) We are so thankful for those who have visited us in Seattle – we like visitors. We had Bonnie and Jeanne in February while we were busy moving/packing, Sally graced our presence twice in 2007 after many years of avoiding the trip, Jill's parents visited, and almost everyone in Marc's immediate family made it up from California.
9) Anytime you visit Vegas, it probably makes a top 10 list. We had a great time with Lisa and Jarrett and this might be higher on the list if that San Francisco cabbie hadn't made our lives so interesting one week earlier.
8) Jill talked non-stop about owning a round dining room table, and that was before we bought one in 2007. Now that we have one, she talks even more about it. For the record, everyone else also talks a lot about it.
7) We visited Chicago – particularly Marc's first visit to Wrigley Field. The entire weekend was fun, even the time spent in Iowa.
6) We were able to visit Sonoma on a direct Horizon Air flight to Santa Rosa that avoided a busy San Francisco airport and a crappy Oakland airport along with the 90-120 minute unpredictable drive to/from Sonoma. And during that trip, we took a food and wine pairing course which was fun.
5) Operation Purple Teeth. Much more to come on this in 2008 and we will be soliciting your support.
4) A visit to Crater Lake. If you haven't been there, go.
3) JDRF Wine Dinner Fundraiser. We got this crazy idea to host a dinner in our home with all proceeds benefiting JDRF and managed to raise over $17,000 on the dinner alone. More was raised by people who could not attend or who donated to our JDRF Walk Team.
2) We started a new home search and made an offer on a house seen on the first day and it went through. We also managed to de-clutter and sell our previous home expeditiously, which we are more and more thankful for given the current real estate market conditions.
… and finally …
1) We got new additions to the family: niece Loren in January and nephew Jeffrey in April.
~Marc & Jill