We had such a fun New Year's. I finally remembered AHEAD of time, to get stuff for this fun tradition that my friend, Alli, does. The night of the 30th Jeff and I cleared off the ornaments, blew up the balloons, and decked out our tree...New Year's Eve style! We went pretty simple. There are coins and tiny little ninja toys inside the balloons and then party hats, party blowers, necklaces, etc all over the tree.
It was SO fun and the kids were super excited when they saw it in the morning.
Shar & Trav joined us for some treats and partying. It was great and the kids felt so special.
Perfect New Year's Eve!!
2012 was good to us and oh so very full. Full of visitors, full of life, full of happy.
Here's our year in review:
January - Celebrated Jeff's 30th, kept plugging on with the doctorate, enjoyed the crazy antics of the boys, Nicole got to have a girl's trip to Texas.
February - Mom A & Shar came out to visit with K & M, celebrated the day of the book & the rose (Valentines) and had some fun indoor activities to get out the winter crazies, started house hunting.
March - Got to play outside a lot since there wasn't any snow, searched for a leprechaun, and had a fun superhero week with preschool, more house hunting.
April - LOVED our month of visitors! Enjoyed our Easter with Grandpa & Dean, Uncle Mckenon came for a visit, celebrated Rachel's graduation with Johnny & Rachel, celebrated Shawn's graduation (Valedictorian,yes!) with Shawn, Abby, and my parents, started building a home.
May - Jeff took off the term (we would later regret this, but oh how we enjoyed this time with him),Weston played spring soccer, celebrated Mother's day & Tave's 4th birthday, had our 4th BOY- Callen, Aunt Shar came to help, watched our house get started!
June - Enjoyed the first month with our new baby, got used to life with 4 boys, celebrated Weston's 6th birthday, Weston played T-ball, played outside a TON, had a WONDERFUL visit with Jeff's mom, said goodbye to some of our best friends, attempted to pack (hahahaha), Callen was an angel baby, saw our house get built a little more each day.
July - Had to really pack- it was hard, celebrated Ryder's 2nd birthday, celebrated our 7th anniversary (yay us!), Nicole & Callen went to a family reunion in MO while Jeff moved us to our new home.
August - Started getting used to our new home/neighborhood, boys had swim lessons, welcomed our first visitors to our new home: Guy & Sharon and Grandpa & Dean, had a blast!, Shar & Trav moved back to Utah (YES!) my parents visited and we blessed Callen, celebrated Nic & Shar's 32nd birthday, Weston started kindergarten, missed our old friends.
September - Got to celebrate with K for her 5th birthday, Tave started preschool, went on a hike with some new friends, getting used to life with Jeff back to everything full-full time and a new place, loved having Shar, Trav, & the girls around.
October - Conference weekend is always a fav, had pictures taken as a family of 6, fun zoo trip with our new friends, Uncle Mckenon came to visit from BYU-I, were the Avengers for Halloween.
November - Callen's half birthday, Amanda came to visit (had a blast!), Hosted Thanksgiving with Jeff's parents and Jonathan & Rachel visiting from Texas, did a bunch of fun art projects, had our first blizzard.
December - Had a month full of Christmas traditions and festivities, welcome Jingles the elf to the family, celebrated Christmas with Nicole's parents and brothers, and thoroughly enjoyed Jeff taking off a whole 5 days for Christmas (he probably shouldn't have, but we sure LOVED every second!)
