Christmas Card 2010

Happy Holidays from the Busby Family!

Instead of doing a card this year, I decided that it would be easiest (and quickest) to do an online card. Here are some of our happenings from 2010 (in no particular order).

Devin:

*finished his first year of medical school with Honors
*got contact lenses
*completed his first two rotations in the hospital: internal medicine and surgery (and completed his first rectal exam)
*received a new calling: Emergency Preparedness Coordinator
*rocked the GMAT
*applied to MBA school at Duke (yes, he's doing an MD and an MBA)
*went to the park with Kylie numerous times to push her on the swings
*woke up at 3:30 in the morning twice a week during his surgery rotation (thank goodness that's over...for now)

Cathy:

*passed my state EMT test
*went on a Life Flight ride-along (and threw up - helicopter sickness)
*ran (ok, partially) a 5K
*watched LOTS of BBC movies with two dear friends
*received a new calling: Assistant Primary Music Chorister
*donated my hair (10 inches) to Locks of Love
*became a die-hard couponer
*got a sewing machine
*met Anoop Desai from American Idol
*has had a fabulous 2nd pregnancy and only has 12 weeks to go!

Kylie:

*celebrated her 2nd birthday
*stopped using her binkies and threw them in the trash all by herself
*learned to spell her own name
*went to Disneyland for the first time and fell in love with the teacups (and hated everything else)
*started nursery, liked it, hated it, and finally likes it again (because of "my buddies")
*spent a total of 926,852,497 minutes swinging on the swings at the park
*memorized the Pledge of Allegiance
*learned lots of Primary songs and a few poems
*grew her hair out long enough for pigtails (but forgot to grow out her bangs)
*fell in love with Elmo and Winnie-the-Pooh
*had Mom read her Winnie-the-Pooh as her bedtime story almost every. single. night.
*followed in Daddy's footsteps and always tells us to "get naked" so she can hear our heartbeats with her "stes-si-scope"
*lied to her father about her age so she would be allowed to drive the car (she told him she was 16...months old)
*talks excitedly about welcoming her "sister Emmy" to the family in March

As a family:
*went on a Spring Break trip to Savannah and Charleston
*saw Wicked!
*went to Wrightsville Beach with some friends
*took a summer trip to Vegas and Utah
*found out we were pregnant with Baby #2
*went to a family reunion in Utah with Crowder Fam
*celebrated our 3rd Anniversary
*found out we were having another little girl
*went to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving
*had our first family sleepover with Kylie
*went to the State Fair for the first time and tried a Krispy Kreme burger (surprisingly tasty!)
*ate at Paula Deen's restaurant
*attended our first Duke basketball game
*went to see the seals at La Jolla beach
*met Kylie's cousin Landon
*picked strawberries at a local farm and made homemade jam (it was bang-a-rang!)

We hope that you have a Merry Christmas and if any of you are ever in North Carolina, we'd love to see you!

Love,
Devin, Cathy, Kylie (and Emmy) Busby