Monday, January 19, 2009

2008 - Year in Review

Dear friends,

I had unrealistic expectation that I will be able to post on blog once a month. Well... Life is busy;-)

Since the previous post was more than a year ago I thought I am just going to update you with what happened in 2008 for us. Despite economic crisis, the year was very good for us.

January:
- visit to kumovi (very good friends) Popovici in South Carolina - we had a blast!
- lottery for Marko's school - we got the school that was our #1 choice

February:
- Marko's 5th birthday
- Maja Samardzija-Orth and Lola visited us

March:
- Went to Tahoe for a ski trip with bunch of Serb friends
- Marko started Karate school
- Petar and Marko visited local fire station with preschool class
- Kumic Aleksandar (Branka's and Micah's son) got baptized

April:
- Marko graduated from preschool
- Dragana and the boys went to Serbia for vacation
- I stayed at home to mow the lawn;-)

May:
- I joined them in Serbia for vacation
- We visited few friends and family members and had fun

June:
- We came back to Pacifica
- Marko started Kindergarten summer camp
- Pater joined Marko in Karate class

July:
- visited Felicia and Goran in Fresno
- went berry picking in local orchard and spend a lot of time on the beach
- a friend (Sohail) moved to east coast

August:
- I got my motorcycle license
- went to circus two times within a month
- we went sailing with Howard on the bay
- Marko started school on August 30th

September:
- Mina and Ivan visited from Nis
- Petar started preschool
- we has several "pool parties" - weather was great
- Marko started soccer practice
- we went apple picking and visited Santa Cruz
- Petar's 4th birthday

October:
- visited several local farms and pumpkin patches
- Halloween party - always fun for kids. Boys were Power Rangers and I was roman slave

November:
- Marko was "Star of the Week" at school
- Petar fell in love with Maya
- little grandma came to visit

December:
- preparations for the holidays
- went to see Nutcracker
- went to Tahoe for New Year's break, spend a week skiing, sledding, and having fun in snow
- bought my motorcycle

You can see few pictures from Tahoe visit here.