january, in review

i began the month-in-review post a few years back, but fell out of the habit when blogging got put on the back burner. i'm starting again, to record bits and pieces of life that might not always become the center of a blog post in itself, or may otherwise be forgotten.

so here we go, january in review, in no particular order:

• started the month with some house shopping.
  
• found our dream home, made two offers, the second of which was accepted.
  
• discussed paint colors. rediscussed paint colors. re-rediscussed paint colors. finally decided on most of the paint colors.
  
• discovered that snowflakes sometimes actually look like the stereotypical snowflake! i'm so amazed by God's attention to detail and creativity.
  
• celebrated my 26th birthday. dinner with friends at CPK, and a belated Christmas dinner with my grandparents at mom's.
  
• taught in big church for the first time - a part of our "purpose leaders" team teaching on the vision of the church (vision day 2009).
  
• did some awesome (if i may say so) design work in preparation for vision day 2009. man, i love design.
  
• helped plan a smokin' super bowl tailgate party at church, as a part of my "outreach" role.
  
• started planning furniture for kids' wing at new campus.
  
• started and scratched at least 4 different design schemes for kids' wing paint/decor. am working on draft... 5 now?
  
• had tea in port gamble with mom, grama, allie and lani to celebrate my birthday.
  
• house inspection - went smoothly and less traumatic than expected.
  
• house appraisal - also smoothly, and less traumatic than expected.
  
• did some awesome offering/mission stuff with the kids, pooling together $100 in just 4 weeks for a water buffalo for a philipino farmer.
  

hmm, i feel like something's been forgotten, but who knows. what a busy month!! next month, even busier.