January!
Hard to believe that it was only a year ago that Ellie was this little!! Ellie is one of my cute nieces, and last spring semester my mom and I would babysit her a few times a week. This is when she was starting to get curious. She loved this tent and would run in and out... however the door was a little shorter than her so every time she ran in she would get clothes-lined!! Sounds mean, but she loved it and would giggle and laugh so hard!!
FebruaryFebruary was the middle of school chaos and the busiest time at work. So what better time to relax than to have a girls at home spa night!! We put on face masks, (this is not the natural color of my face..) and Kim the incredible gave us massages, because she is the coolest person ever. Then we watched ‘One fine day’ until we found that there was a scratch halfway through the movie… kind of an anticlimax! But it was a lot of fun just to hang out together!!
March
For school I had to do several projects. Me being the slacker that I am decided to combine them all into one project, using mostly things I had made for previous projects… hehehe I should write a book on how to slide through college!! Anyway I had made this game for an earlier project, and used my cute niece Alana to be my test subject!!
April
April was an exciting month this year… The weekend of general conference, instead of going to the cabin for a nice retreat… we went to the hospital!! Yay! Not really. Unfortunately a few days before conference, my brother Kris found out that he had a tumor in his colon that needed to come out! So the poor kid got to spend a few days in the hospital from surgery. Our family being the odd people we are, watched conference with him in his room… like all of us. So we crowded in sitting in the windowsill, watching the miniature TV. Definitely a memorable occasion.
We got Kris a remote helicopter to bug the nurses with... it was pretty cool!!May
The best month of the YEAR!! This is my birthday month!! YEA!! My sisters and I have a tradition of celebrating what we call birthday week… which is exactly what it sounds like! Unfortunately I have no pictures of birthday week.. guess I was too busy being selfish. This is also the month of graduations!! My brother-in-law Brent finished his master’s degree in Architecture, and my sister Melanie graduated finally with her Radiology tech!! I say it that way because she has worked soo so hard to do it, had a baby during the middle of the program, and worked 2 jobs while going to school!! So impressive!! Congratulations!!
Yea Brent!!
I think Cindy just told Brent that she wants to quit her job...
Happy day for everyone!! June
This month was full.. that is the only way to describe it. Amy and Justin got engaged on Memorial day.. or around there? So they were busy with wedding plans. This meant that Joni and I had to relocate!! So I started looking for a house to buy.. and working with my “favorite” mortgage lady ever… We’ll just say that the name Deborah will always live in infany. Kris started his chemo/radiation in the summer and was not so fond of his pump that he had to kart around. It definitely made him sick, but he was determined to live on his off weeks. I am still a little ashamed that I needed my chemo brother to lift me into the boat after wakeboarding…
This is literally how Kris walked around with his chemo pump.
I packed everything up and stacked it to the cealing... and then we were waiting to move with everything packed up!!July
Yea!! This was the month that I was finally able to buy my townhouse!! We moved way later than we thought we would, and it was pretty close to Amy’s wedding… yikes!! But we did make it out, after 2 round trips to Porkypine resovior to get my Dad so we could sign more papers after closing!! Luckily we had Justin when we were finally ready to move and he had us moved out and in, in one night!! Pretty Awesome!! Kris also took the whole family on a boating trip to Willard Bay!! That was way fun and exciting. Alana loved tubing and insisted on wearing full snorkeling gear to go tubing!! Ellie was less than excited to sit in a boat, all she wanted to do was to get into the water and swim. So she spent most of the day on the beach playing!
Home Sweet Home!!
Ellie and Grampa swimming.. August
This is the month that Amy and Justin got married!! It was such a great wedding, because they chose to not have a reception and just have a family dinner!! I was a big fan because it was so low key and low stress!! Also this month, I think this might have actually been in July.. but we were able to go see Stillwater Dam that was spilling over… AND get a tour on the inside!! This also marks the last first day of school ever for me!! I was really excited to finish school up and free some time up!!!
Congratulations Amy and Justin!!
We got to walk on top!! It was pretty creepy to look off something that high!!
September
My mom bought a bounce house over the summer and we were able to try it out with Ellie. We only were babysitting her a few days this semester, but it was way fun to get to see her grow into a toddler and play with babies!! She is definitely getting some attitudes and loves to repeat what everybody says!
I believe her and her dolls were taking "naps".. which is why she has a funny face. October
This time for conference weekend we did get to go to the cabin! Yay for reals!! During Priesthood session Cindy was able to come up and spend some sister time with us! This was way fun, and good because I got her to show me how to mod podge!! I have been wanting to learn for a long time.. I know it doesn’t seem like a hard thing to teach yourself but I am a slow learner! So we were able to finish my magnet board and make it cute!! We also got to take Alana and Ellie trick-or-treating. I know no other family that is so obsessed with Star Wars that they ALL want to dress up as a character!!
This day was nothing but chaos.. so this is the best picture of the two of them we got...
This is about as crafty as I get...November
November was the ending of Kris’s chemo! WAHOO!! He got pretty sick towards the end so we were all glad to be done with the weekly poisonings!! And glad to get our handy man back… We also had an awesome Thanksgiving that had to be re-located to my aunt and uncles house due to snowy weather… funny that it all melted after!! I had to work on Thanksgiving but I was able to take a whole bunch of pictures of Joni and Cindy making the delicious rolls… instead of helping!
This picture of Cindy makes me laugh.. her true feelings about cooking always come through.
I took this picture artistically..
December
Graduation!! Finally I finished up my BSN and am done with school forever… and least for now!! Sadly no one brought a camera, so no pictures of graduation.. But nothing beats that the last day of class was canceled due to the high wind storm that came through.. too bad that they didn’t cancel class until we were all there and locked inside the building!! I’ll never forget what an adventure it was to walk around campus that day, or how everyone’s projects blew away!!
This is the best picture I could get of the destruction... funny that I have no snow pictures for December??!!
