The past decade......what's happened

Well what will we be up to in the last couple of days of 2009, thus the decade! Hasn't the past 10 years gone quick, what has happened in 10 years:

1. 2 kids, Tim now 3 & Half and Ben 8 months old today
2. Got back together with Mark & still going strong (never a dull moment!)
3. BFF Julie got married! finally!!! :D
4. Started my 30's! now heading to the late part of those!!
5. Celebrated my parents 30th Anniversary this year
6. Youngest sister Zoe got engaged
7. 2 of my cousins have had children and settled down
8. Nana was 80 this past decade
9. Lost my beloved Grandad, miss you loads even 6 years down the line, had a 'moment' twice on Christmas Day. Once watching one of your fav films White Christmas and the other watching James May's Toy Stories which was made in Barnstaple when he tried to make a model railway go from Barnstaple to Bideford along the Tarka trail......you would have loved to have taken part in that or at least watched it being built
10. The invention of the Iphone! well mobile phones have certainly come along way in 10 years
11. Horrendous events such as 9/11, Tsuami, Hurricane Katrina, Afghanistan, train crash on the Reading to Paddington train, July 8th bombs in London.......things that we can control i.e. people just being plain nasty taking lives when not necessary and things we can't i.e. the weather
12. America getting their first black President.....Martin Luther King Jr would have stood up proud on that day....I know I would have voted for Obama if I lived there
13. Graham & Donna moved to New Zealand & Dani was born......so far my only niece, but she is soooo far away!
14. All of us becoming more eco-friendly trying to stop Climate Change but is it going to be too little too late? who knows
15. The loss of Princess Diana.....an event that stunned the world & then this year another one! Michael Jackson's death! also as shocking
16. I discovered Scrapbooking!!!! my favourite obsession!! (well that's what Mark would call it!)
17. Digital Cameras....I wouldn't be without mine I love it!
18. Meeting new friends....Mandy, Lorraine, Bridget, Faye K, Sharon H, Michelle M, Clarissa just to name a few
19. The invention of Facebook, love it as caught up with some old friends as well as new...also hate it as Mark is always on it!
20. Celebrating 14 years of marriage at the end of this month....that has gone soo quick