2009. Top 20 highlights from a year in the life of team schmitty...

1. Jamo figures out the toilet thing.
2. 5 week road trip to tucson.
3. Carter learning to ski at Hickory Hills.
4. Mum racing her first cat I-II stage race (the tucson bicycle classic) and not getting dropped!
5. Carter starting school.
6. Watching Obama's inauguration at the State Theater.
7. Jameson learns to ride the dyno bike.
8. Dad finishes the Lumberjack 100mile mountain bike race.
9. Our 24 tomato plants and the rest of the garden goes nuts!
10. Gma Tenley's visit to TC.
11. Carter defending his pie eating contest title not once, twice but 3 times during the cherry festival.
12. Picking 5-6 bushels of beautiful apples from the magic apple tree.
13. Mum and dad both winning their groups at the iceman race.
14. Carter gets his first library card.
15. Camping trip in manistee at the orchard lake state park.
16. Bonfire, sunset swimming, marshmallows and veggiedogs at empire beach to say goodbye to the swansons.
17. Tuna the guinea pig joins the team.
18. Jamo learns to talk.
19. New tart bridge over the boardman river, playground at f&m park and the TC commissioners pass a chicken bylaw...we're getting 4 chicks in the spring!
20. Carter learns to write his name and starts to read chapter books.