Top 10 Firsts of 2012

Firsts big and small in 2012 :)

1. Visiting the Holy Land. From olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane (above) to Galilee, Bethlehem, Golgotha, Temple Hill and the Wailing Wall, the BYU Jerusalem Center, the Dead Sea, Masada, and working archaelogical sites.  An amazing trip to change your perspective.

2. Visiting the Pyramids of Egypt (even the lit-up night show)! Cool! But I never want to drive in Cairo (buses, cars, trucks, donkeys making a three-land highway into seven lanes).

3. Seeing Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew in the reconstructed Globe Theater on the Thames. Awesome for an old English major (and my husband even laughed).

4. Sending off our oldest son on a two-year church mission (that one is full of emotion).

5. Becoming a yogi (not really, but attending yoga class semi-regularly).

6. Memorizing The Living Christ in French (though I'm not sure why, maybe just to see if I remember any of the plus belle langue du monde).

7. Watching two kids play college sports (BYU-Hawaii softball and UVU Rugby).

8. Watching all four sons play together in a year-end rugby game.

9. Making the St. George Marathon 10-year club.

10. In Crossfit, lots of firsts . . . bar muscle ups, 99 double unders, and other painful activities.