It is 2009...So What Happened to 2008?

I think it would be an understatement to say that it is "odd" that it could "really be" just over one year ago that I took time to reflect back on all that was accomplished in 2007. Well, I am perplexed that it is now 2009 wondering just what became of 2008. Many wonderful things happened such as spending time in the Pentagon, conducting funerals at Arlington National Cemetery, and being "in the crowd" on the lawn of the White House to witness President Bush officially welcome Pope Benedict XVI to America. I have also seen some major milestones with my daughter's first birthday and my 10th wedding anniversary. Our family, after four years, said "good-bye" to the Washington D.C. area and moved to Biloxi, Mississippi, with a new assignment to Keesler Air Force Base. Here we experienced our first major evacuation because of Hurricane Gustav and became the recipients of a brand-new, freshly built, on-base home that was nearly 1,900 square feet. It has truly been one of blessings and surprises that offered many spectacular achievements and a conglomeration of milestones, memories and the every-day normalcy of life. It has been one of those years that begs to ask "how could anything possibly top this?" My goal is to live in 2009 to be able to answer that question.