really 2011

Wow! where did the last 4 months go since my last post? And I really thought I was going to keep up somewhat. I'll add a few pictures of highlights from the last few and maybe add a comment or two and hopefully 2011 will be a better year for blogging ;-). Not necessarily in order.

Here's our family photo for the year and for a first time I will have a large (20x30) framed in the house. Abbie and Trevor gave us the large photo for Christmas and it is at the framers right now. I'm excited to get it back and display in the family room. The plan is to update it each fall. I love my family!

The girls and I went to the playground with E and M and played one afternoon in October.

One of my favorite things to do is go hiking. Here's some photo's from this fall with sisters and sis-in-laws. And Cort, Janelle and Eisley.

We try to take a photo with Steve and I each time we have all the grandkids all together. Very rarely do we get them all to cooperate because it is usually when they are tired and ready to go home.

Love this pic I got of Maddix giving little Livi and kiss.

so fun when they play together.

Laina's first day of her Junior year. I only have one left in public school and it sure feels different. I don't seem to know what's going on much. She's not involved in student government this year and most of my friends are done with kids in school so it seems so much different this year. She seems to be doing good in her studies. First term was very good.

Laina went to homecoming. It was a fun day for her til the very end of the night (well early morning). Some of her friends kind of did a not nice thing and it has dramatically changed her friendships the last few months. It's been a hard adjustment. She went from so many friends last year and so involved in school to sitting home on New Year's Eve.

Another thing I love to do is road bike. Hope to do a few more century rides in 2011.

Trevor and I volunteered and directed traffic one day during the Tour de Utah. It was a fun day together.

Steve and I celebrated our 32nd wedding anniversary in October -Wow!

This picture makes me laugh. Lex and Lain dressed up as Steve and I for a family Halloween party. They raided our closets and even had our poses down. It was pretty funny, even one of my nieces thought it was Steve when Lex was laying on her side on the ground in Steve's usual position.

Lex and I went on a little road trip to St. George for an event with my parents. Steve was sick and at the last minute Lexi got off work and went with me. It was so much fun and a great break for us. It was one night and down and back, we stopped in Cedar and went to her friends apartment, went to lunch and stopped in a fun little shop down there. Lex and Madi were planning on being roommates together, but it didn't work out for Lexi to go this year, so it was fun to stop in and spend a couple of hours together. Had to leave before a big storm hit later in the day. Her birthday was the next day.

Lexi's 19th birthday. She's a beautiful girl, inside and out!

She loves her nieces and nephew and they love her back!

Lauren and Lex - Love these beautiful girls! They are both doing great things!

It's a GIRL! Abbie and Trevor are expecting a little girl in the middle of April.

I have volunteered for The Festival of Trees for 32 years and it has been a highlight each year. I love participating in this wonderful event. Amazing people to work with, most of my family is involved and many dear friends. This year I decorated a small tree and Steve donated a painting.

Well there's a few things. I'll try to get some of December's events added this week.