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Every year there are ups and downs but hopefully in most cases the good always outweighs the bad in any given year. We asked our readers to share their best memory of 2013. We have compiled a list of responses and have provided them below.
- Kenji Freitas: Getting our adopted son Makana after years of waiting!
- David Chuey: The completion of Special Havens state of the art multi-sensory room
- Debbie Stevenson Petersen: My son graduating from high school, and my oncologist releasing me from care after 8 years!!!
- Maribel Aparicio: Leaving an abusive relationship and finding myself again.
- Terri Chapman: Going to Yosemite with my 87 year old dad and 86 year old mom for what is probably their last trip there and watching him point out the sights to mom who has Alzheimer’s and to his great-grandchildren.
- Sabrina Vanvliet: My baby boy being born 4 days before my birthday! best gift yet.
- Dennis Bilis: Finally graduating from college.
- Aubree Davidson: My son being born
- Jennifer Pereira: Buying our first home
- Kayla Joy: Getting engaged
- Diane Denning: My first grandchild was born!
- Sarah Garber: My daughter’s birth in March and becoming a mom.
- Leslie D. Clymens Russo: My oldest son got to come home for Christmas. And both my boys were here for Christmas.
- Valerie Biggs-Hernandez: Meeting my nephew! he was born just after the new year and its been an amazing year with him.
- Monique Chaves: The birth of my son
- Jordan Davis: There are a lot, but one is my dad beating cancer
- Katie Davis-Marti: Moving into our new home in King NC (From Antioch CA)
- Janet Baldridge Bryson: Moving into a new home and the birth of my first great grandson!
- Robert Bryson: We had a home built and moved into a great new neighborhood out in east Oakley. It was a Godsend to get away from our old neighborhood. Instead of hearing gunshots and constant traffic noises, now we enjoy the peace and quiet of rural Oakley with the sounds of cows and horses.
- Karen Elliott: My daughters Wedding!
- Katharine Wayne: My wedding day
- Heather Powell: Have many, but the best was the first time Jim told me he loved me.
- Kylie Nersesian: My daughter being born
- Nancy Mauri: Attending the Marine Corps Ball with my son and his roommate. It was such an honor.
- Kellie Campbell: Becoming a grandma
- Kimberly Bailey Mayorga: The birth of my baby on 2/14/2013
- Nina Annis: Europe with friends.
- Angela Keers: We bought our 2nd home and sold our first. Was so sad to sell our first we brought our daughter home here and lived there 12 yrs. The neighborhood. Went down hill so had no choice. But we live our new home and neighborhood . We are making new memories
- Susan Paulson: Daughter’s received another letter for her jacket for her second year cross country.
- Lois DuMoulin: Paying my car off!
- Marnae Martin-Immoos: finding out at the age of 43 (yes, I just admitted my age) that I will be a grandma again for the third time!!!
- Amy Lemos: The birth of my daughter Ayrianna Grace!!
- Katiee Elizabeth Reed: Me and my boyfriend getting back together
- Gloria E. Soto: My baby Leticia Marcella was born May 16, but that is the only good memory of 2013.
- Dominic Filardo: Seeing 18 players from the Delta patriots East youth football team get academic award athlete recognition from the DYFL 18 team league. And Coach david Stanley of the varsity east selected as coach of the year from over 90 other coaches. Makes being a parent volunteer all the more enjoyable.
