9. Liam officially mastered potty training in late winter, cutting the number of diapers used in the Bushwar household from 9,490 to just under 7,300 per year.
8. Starting in January, Jon and Susan participated in Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University at church and realized that having money=good and broke=bad.
7. When the “Obama Bucks” which had been funding instructional coaching ran dry, Susan returned to teaching special education at the start of the school year.
6. The Bushwar’s Dallas zoo membership expired in July, but thank goodness their membership to the Bushwar Zoo never ends!
5. After a year of uncertainty and massive budgetary cuts for Irving ISD, Jon is thankful he still has a job teaching art. However, he now has the added responsibility of making his own supplies from the materials he is able to find in the recycling bins around school.
4. Jon was in attendance at the Ballpark in Arlington to cheer on his Texas Rangers once again this October at the World Series, unfortunately…sorry, still too soon to write about it. :(
3. Snowbirds before their time, the Bushwars spent most of the summer in Minnesota. During July, they enjoyed lots of time with family, took trips to Wisconsin and Duluth, said goodbye to Susan’s sweet Grandma, and enjoyed a break from the Texas heat.
2. Liam had a big, orange birthday party to celebrate turning three. Two months later, his loving and precious sisters, Marin and Ellery, turned one. In those moments when all three kiddos require chasing, feeding, changing, or refereeing, Susan and Jon feel acutely outnumbered.
And the #1 Event of 2011…
1. For the first time in over five years of marriage, there is not a major announcement, event, or happening to report. Life is grand!
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