2000s in Review
I saw this on my friend, Megan’s, blog, and I thought it was so interesting that I had to do it myself. Our blog tends to be a little kid-focused these days, so perhaps this will give some of you a bit more information about me than you ever wanted to know.
2000
Celebrated Y2K asleep in a recliner at my best friends’ house on my first outing after back surgery.
Spent about four months in a fog recovering from said surgery.
Started my freshman year at Texas A&M University, majoring in education, thinking I was going to be a math teacher or go to nursing school.
2001
Spent spring break in London.
Decided teaching wasn’t really what I was supposed to do, changed my major to community health intending to go to nursing school someday.
Spent eight weeks in Nepal that summer. Got worms, made some great friends, experienced an earthquake and was robbed at gunpoint by Maoist rebels who stole all our stuff and attempted to burn down the house I was staying in. It was a life-changing summer, if you couldn’t tell by my brief description.
2002
Junior year of college, got really involved in the college ministry at our church, met Thomas and made more wonderful friends.
Applied to a bunch of nursing schools to transfer to a BSN program. Didn’t get into a single one though my grades were really good. God firmly closed that door, though it was shocking to me at the time.
2003
Lived with a wonderful family who taught me a ton about marriage and family.
Thomas and I started dating in November.
2004
Internship at Hope Pregnancy Center the semester before graduation.
Thomas and I got engaged in August.
Graduated in December.
2005
Thomas and I were married on January 8th. Had an awesome two-week honeymoon in Paris.
Found out we were pregnant in early May.
Bought a house in September.
2006
Josiah was born in February.
Made some great mom friends who helped in the transition to motherhood.
2007
Lived it up with one kids and lots of fun friends (that picture is horrible, but one of the few I have of most everyone.)
Started training to become a Bradley Method childbirth instructor.
Found out I was pregnant with Annalise in October.
2008
Annalise Claire was born in May.
Became fully certified as a Bradley instructor.
2009
Enjoying life with two beautiful kids and a wonderful husband.
Yay! I”m so glad you did one! I think I even learned a few things :)
Oh gosh, I loved reading this post. I loved the college pictures. I’m so glad you lived with us that year. I look back at that year and feel like I was so young. I feel like I remember scrapbooking while making fun of the Bachelor the most…is that weird? I’m so proud of the wife and mom you’ve become….you inspire me!!
That was great Rachel! I’ll be working on mine soon. Seems fun!
What a great idea!!! Thanks for sharing. Worms and Gunpoint……that is definitely not a good year:)
Lyns
I really enjoyed this and learning more about you! You’ve had quite a memorable decade!
I love that picture of you and Thomas holding Annalise! Your expressions are prefect.
Love this, Rachel. I still get choked up when I see that picture of you and Thomas with Annalise, nothing more beautiful in the world!
holy cow, rachel! this is great! and i am super impressed, i couldn’t even work up the motivation to do a 2009 in pics!
and can i just say…2001 was rather intense. WOW!
That’s a fun post! The crazy thing to me is that I’ve known y’all for more than half of that time… nuts.
I love this post! Your life changed a lot in the last decade, didn’t it!? How wonderful! I was glad to get your comment that you made the sweet potato recipes. I really love those recipes. It’s so nice that you made them with sweet potatoes you had grown yourself! One of my hopes one day is that I can have a veggie garden. Also, good idea to nix the icing on the cupcakes and eat them more like muffins.
Wow! It is amazing that it has been 10 years since Y2K…it was a magical year for me, because I met you! thanks for letting us reflect back on the last decade and praise God for his o’ so amazing work in your (and your family’s) life. I love you!