Pardon the non-correctable typo errors (like happened to Matt's YIR):

Here is my....(followed by a reg. entry :)

Year in Review: 2003
By: Mary Sanford

¡§This year...is gonna be incredible. This year... is gonna be the one...¡¨

¡V My YIR is accented by Chantal Kreviazuk¡¦s song ¡§This Year¡¨.

¡§January...I¡¦ll learn to fly.¡¨
We flew home from a fast and fun 2002 Ohioan Christmas with both families. For Christmas I got an IPOD from the padres! It changed my world of music enjoyment! To get everything home, we had to buy 2 huge plastic bins and shove, shove, shove it all together!

¡§February...loves gonna find me.¡¨I started coaching Chowchilla JV girls¡¦ softball, and we got a week off from school. It was a little baby summer of relaxing ƒº. Overall, this month I found the onset of sports back in my life as a much-needed lifesaver from the workaholic mentality of the school year.

¡§March, April, May...I¡¦ll get carried away!¡¨Coaching softball (& baseball for Case) took over our lives! We were busy with practice, games, and jumbling in some hilarious substitute teacher lesson plans. And after a semi-overcast, foggy Chowchilla winter, it was an amazing refreshment to be outdoors in the beautiful sun again.

¡§June . . . I¡¦ll paint my masterpiece¡¨OH YEAH! The break of all breaks! SUMMER! It started immediately with a bang as Casey¡¦s family flew out, rented a van, and condos all over California! We had a real bear buddy visit our window in Tahoe¡¦s freezing, windblown mountain condo. And then we had awesome tennis igniting in Ramona, CA (SoCal). Whatta great start to Summer 2003!

July ¡¨...I¡¦m gonna have fun!¡¨
The trip of lifetime began at the end of June, however, where we packed light personal items and heavy camping gear into our Jeep Cherokee! Quickly up through Oregon and Washington, we really hit the great wide open in British Columbia, Canada!

Beauty, wildlife, no humans: just Casey and I enjoying God¡¦s creation. We saw wild bear, big horned mt. sheep, moose, elk, porcupine, buffalo, bald eagles, and more. Making it to Anchorage was an oasis of relief. We rested, explored, settled in, and watched some fireworks.

Then the greatest idea ever overtook us: let¡¦s drive home and see our family! The surprise was one of the biggest and best ever pulled on our families, and we had an amazing reunion of food, folks, fun, movies, and tennis!

August ¡¨...I¡¦ll get to the top.¡¨
Back to reality, school is approaching. We left the Jeep to his parents/sister and flew home a week before school started. It was one of the best summers ever, minus the fact that we really didn¡¦t hit up San Diego for any length of time!ƒ¼

September & October ¡§...All the planets are lining up for me.¡¨These days were full of teach, teach, teaching but with a new laid back approach carefully prepared during the thousands of hours on the road this summer. Being organized and starting the year off right really paid off, and we hit the ground running through these fall months. Throw in a quick trip to San Diego Olympics and the fall semester is the furthest thing from our minds!

November ¡§...I¡¦ll reach the pinnacle.¡¨Coaching JV basketball began, and it was a pure enjoyment from day one! Such good athletes and my basketball knowledge made this season an easy and enjoyable start! November though, of course, is for Thanksgiving! And we celebrated in extreme style with a sunset reenactment of 30 year married parents, and a wonderful, quick time with all our fam in San Diego!

December ¡§...This year I¡¦m never gonna stop!¡¨
The weirdness of all Christmas and New Year¡¦s celebrations happened in 2003. No family, no friends, no flying home, just us and Bocifus Sanford in cold, rainy Chowchilla, California! It was some of the most relaxing weeks of our lives. We caught up on sleep, talked with friends and family via tele, watched tons of movies, gave each other gifts, and took care of Bo.