Happy New Year!

2011 Recap

January: Lily turned 10 months old this month! She started crawling and pulling herself up. She even learned how to walk using her walking toy. She also got very sick this month with Bronchitis and a right ear infection. But she recovered quickly and that didn't stop her from becoming a pro crawler! We also discovered that she had curly hair which was a very nice surprise! This is also the month Steven and I started another semester of school, Steven was in his second semester of the Jr. Core and I decided to try taking 9 credits. Steven decided for sure to apply to the Masters of Accountancy program at BYU.

February: This month Lily discovered the piano in our family room and could finally reach the keys. She loves going up to the piano and hitting the keys. Her hair also finally became long enough to have little piggy tails! My little brother, Jason, also got his acceptance letter to BYU and was going to be joining us in Provo that summer.

March: Lily turned 1 year old this month! She upgraded to a big girl car seat and I signed her up for swimming lessons for the summer time. We purchased bikes and a bike trailer so we could go on family bike rides during the spring and summer. Steven and I signed up for Fall 2011 classes which was the start to my last year of college!

April: This was an exciting month for us. I threw a baby shower for one of my best friends, Alyssa but she actually went into labor at 31 weeks and delivered twin baby girls! Steven and I wrapped up the semester with a load of finals and found out we both were awarded full ride scholarships for the next year. Steven and I also celebrated 3 years of marriage. Steven applied for four leadership programs and was offered three! And we had the chance to travel down to Vegas for Easter. It snowed over general conference weekend.

May: Steven got his acceptance letter into BYU's Masters of Accountancy program. We celebrated my second mother's day which was wonderful. Spring was finally surfacing! Steven did his Leadership externship in SLC at Deloitte.

June: Steven and I enjoyed a short break before jumping into our spring classes. We celebrated Steven's second father's day. Lily and I flew down to Vegas to visit my family and attend my brother's graduation from high school. Lily and I did a Mommy-and-Me swim lesson class and it was so much fun! And Lily got her first hair cut (which I will never do again!)

July: We had a little 4th of July celebration with our friends. We drove up to Rexburg and attended Steven's 10 year high school reunion. Lily turned 16 months old! Lily tripped in our kitchen and flew on her nose. This was our first blood experience with Lily and it was pretty scary. Her nose looked pretty bad for a few days, black and purple and swollen! Spring classes ended and summer classes started! We found out we were having another baby! I made another trip down to Vegas to visit my family and told them the good news of the new baby. Steven did his Leadership program in LA for PWC.

August: All of my sisters and brother came up to run a half Marathon. My brother moved up to Provo this month and got settled at BYU. Summer classes came to an end and school started at the end of the month. We also got an opportunity to move the week before fall classes started so we moved as quickly as we could!

September: School was in full force and this was the first semester (and only) that Steven was taking 15 credits and I was taking 14 credits (with Lily). Things got crazy fast! We announced we were having another baby! And we had our first OB appointment and got to see our little baby on camera.

October: We found out we were having another baby girl! Steven had been interviewing with various companies for the last several months and this month he decided to accept an offer with KPMG in SLC. We celebrated a great Halloween with pumpkin carving, haunted hay rides, and trick or treating. Lily was a cute little kitty cat!

November: I was halfway through my pregnancy this month! We traveled to Vegas for Thanksgiving and that was a lot of fun. We had another little scare with Lily when she popped her elbow out of place (nursemaid elbow) and had to see a doctor to get it placed.

December: We traveled to Rexburg for Christmas which was fun. It barely snowed before Christmas and we didn't have a white Christmas in Provo or Rexburg. Another semester ended and we were so grateful for it to end. We went to the zoo and aquarium for the first time. Lily went to her first dentist appointment. She also went pee pee in the potty for the first time!

This was actually a busy year for us but since I started blogging in 2009, this year had the least amount of blog posts!

2009- 120 blog post

2010- 108 blog post

2011- 80 blog post

I think we just got wrapped up in other stuff and I didn't write everything down like usual. Regardless, I am very proud that I have kept blogging considering how many people have stopped. This isn't just a blog for us to brag or complain. This is a blog to share our family memories and experiences and to record memories! I have printed off every single blog post this year and added it to my journal. I hope everyone had a good 2011 like we did. We are so ready for 2012 though. We have been counting down the years. 2012 is our year, baby! Steven and I both graduate from COLLEGE! Our little family gets to grow again! (I hear that you aren't really a "family" until you have at least 2 kids.) We will hopefully be moving sometime this year closer to Steven's job (probably not until November or December). And the list goes on and on! 12 is Steven and my favorite numbers so it's no wonder 2012 holds a lot of good stuff for us! Happy New Year!