Well, 2004 was punctuated with several positive events for us, not the least of which was the building of our new home on southwest Whidbey Island. We are so proud of it and want you to see it, so we put it on our Christmas card. How grateful we are for the good outcomes that came our way this year, and we share some of them with you here.   For most of the 22 years we lived in Bothell, we aspired to move to a cleaner and quieter place, but with Mike serving two, four?year terms as city councilman and mayor, we were precluded from leaving Bothell. That all changed in November 2001 w...