2012 Year in Review

Time for the Yearly Year in Review blog post.  Shall we take a look back at 2012?

January - New year, new year resolutions. Mike turns 31, then had Kidney Stones and had Surgery to blast it up to better pass it. Greyson is 9 Months Old.

February - This month is always so busy for us every year, I don't think anything happened except Valentines Day. We did find out that Greyson's Tonsils and Adenoids were enlarged.

March - Gavin turns 3, Birthday Party, Lots of Birthday Activities. Mike and I have been married for 7 years. Got a dog. Greyson starts crawling.

April - Greyson turns 1, Croup hits Greyson. Birthday Party, Birthday Activities. Doggie dies. Easter. Birthday Photo Shoot. Time to lose weight!

May - Another new dog. Sell the new doggie. Gavin starts really talking and saying the funniest things. Potty training? Zoo trip.

June - Jackson Hole. Big fire on the mountain behind us. Boring month.

July - 4th of July, Stopped nursing Greyson, Boys sleeping in the same room. I hit my weight loss goal of 125 lbs. SHeDaisy concert. Celebrated my 5th year at work. Gavin is finally POTTY TRAINED!

August - 6 Year anniversary at work for me, 4 Year anniversary in the Navy for Mike. Mike hits 1 year with Sinclair. Greyson is 15 months old. Gavin starts Music Class. Called as Mia Maid Advisor.

September - It is decided that Greyson will have his T&A surgery. Gavin starts Preschool. Gavin is 42 Months old. Family pictures. Mike starts a new job at K&S Automotive in Lehi.

October - I turn 30. Halloween, Parties, Trick or Treating and Trunk or Treating. Pumpkins, Flu. Greyson is 18 months old.

November - Thanksgiving. Greyson's Surgery. First Snow. Spending Thanksgiving with Family. Black Friday Shopping. Mike gets called as Secretary in Sunday School Presidency.

December - Christmas, Parties, Santa. Getting older. Figuring out New Year Resolutions. Crafts, Busy running around getting presents and food to celebrate Christmas!

I have no idea what next year will bring, we will have birthdays and get older. I am hoping to go back to school hopefully. We are looking forward to this year!

Christmas 2012

Our Christmas this year was so great.  It is so fun having kids.  We didn't get any pictures because we took video of all the opening of presents.  I am trying to open a youtube account and download all our videos for the special people in our lives.  If you would like a link to our youtube videos to see Christmas leave us me a comment and I will send you a link to your email we have on the blog.

Greyson's favorite gift was - Wrapping paper, and all the cars.

Gavin's favorite gift was - His LeapPad

My favorite gift was - My new Griddle!

Mike's favorite gift was - His new Tool Box, which is a totally different story.

We had a great morning sleeping to 8am, then opening stockings, then presents.  Then we cleaned up the wrapping paper and played with the gifts.  We then napped and I worked on dinner.  We then ate and made some m&m cookies and finished off the night watching some new movies we got for Christmas!  We already can't wait until Christmas 2013!

Santa 2012

We saw Santa twice again this year (and didn't have to pay for pictures - YAY.)  We saw him the first weekend in December at Walmart and again on Christmas Eve in our Neighborhood again. Gavin again this year was so in love with Santa. He kept telling us and Santa he wanted Presents with toys for Christmas. He loved getting a candy cane and stuffed animal from Santa.  Greyson on the other hand wanted NOTHING to do with Santa, thus we have our first crying Santa picture.

2012 Christmas Ornaments

This years 2012 Christmas Ornaments

 

Gavin's Ornament this year was Music sheet and drums because of Music Class.

Greyson's ornament this year is a needle, prescription and stethoscope because of all the Dr. Appts. and Surgery.

Christmas Eve

This year Christmas Eve was pretty chill at our house...And I LOVED IT!  Mike had to work half a day and Gavin, Greyson and I hung out at home relaxing and watching movies.  I had to go to Walmart because we decided last minute to do Neighbor gifts, so I had to get stuff for that.  Later we delievered the Neighbor gifts, ate lots of candy and sweets that people had brought to us and watched more movies.  We then had the boys unwrap their Christmas Jammies and blanket (I decided this year to "make" a fleece blanket for the boys because they always want a blanket for the living room) gave the boys baths and then we were relaxing in our jammies with our blankets.  Stay tuned for the Santa post!

Wrapping Paper

This Year, Greyson was more interested in the wrapping paper (and ripping it all up) then the presents he was getting out of the wrapping paper!

Thanksgiving

I was MIA this year for Thanksgiving, but I have so much (again and every year) to be thankful for.  We made these cute little 2x4 Turkey's in YWs a couple weeks before Thanksgiving and I still have mine up, to remind me that I have a lot to be thankful for and that I need to remember that all year long, not just during Thanksgiving!

First Snow

The Saturday after Greyson's surgery (November 10) we took Gavin and Greyson outside to play in the first snow storm we had this year.  Gavin loved it and Greyson was just excited to get outside.  Gaivn stayed out and played for hours!  He even loved the hot chocolate afterward (which he usually doesn't)

Halloween

As you already know, the boys were Minions for Halloween this year.  We had a lot of fun finding, making, buying and putting together these customes and the Boys loved them.  On Halloween I picked up the boys from the sitters, came home, made dinner.  The boys ate really fast and were itching to get out the door.  We put the costumes on as fast as we could and headed out the door.  We just went around our little block and both boys had a blast (except for a couple mini meltdowns from Greyson because we weren't letting him walk by himself)  We started the night at 6, made it back home a little after 7, took some pictures, bathed the boys and were in bed by 8!  Gavin is really excited to go Trick or Treating next year!  All in all a successfully night!

2012 Family Pictures

We got our 2012 Family pictures taken last weekend at Fotofly.  I am not going to lie, I was not to impressed with the photographer and I feel like we should have gotten a lot more shots then 38 in the 45+ minutes we were there...but oh well, such is life.  We did get some really good ones.  Here are some besides the ones that I like on the side of the blog.

Mother's Day

My Mother's Day picture with my boys!  It was a week late but hey, we got one!

Easter Egg Hunt

Mike and I decided to do a mini Easter Egg Hunt for Gavin in our yard.  He had so much fun!

2012 New Years Resolutions

It is that time of year again...To start thinking about New Years Resolutions. Here are mine.

*Start working on getting the basement finished, at least the bedroom down stairs so Mike & I can move down there, move the boys into the master upstairs and make their bedroom a toy room/Office? That will then open up the living room more.

*After I am done nursing, I am going to lose some baby weight! So excited for that!

*Now that Christmas is over, start saving some money for the basement finish fund, the new yard fund, the new carpet/tile floor fund & for next Christmas...

*Take a family vacation...Whether it be to New Mexico/Arizona again or Jackson Hole, Take a family vacation.

*Continue Family Prayer. Start family scripture study!

*Take more pictures!

I really think that is it. It was a tough year for us last year, but somehow we made it through! 2012 it our year!