Year in Review

I sometimes find myself trying to remember different things about the year, and in doing our family calendar this year, remembered a trip we went on that I had forgotten! With today being he last day of the month, and I am waiting for the time to be "appropriate" to drop something off at the ladies I Visit Teach -- yep it has been a month :)--- I looked back at my blog to see the fun things I did each month. . . so I can just review it here -- here is the DeGraffenried recap for 2010!

January -- Ryan turned EIGHT!!
February -- Ryan is baptized! Jake and I go for a few days to Vegas for a convention, and Jake and my dad take the boys to a monster truck event (don't know what they call that :))
March -- We have a fun St. Patricks day party, we get chicks, and we go to San Diego!
April -- Jacob turns ELEVEN!! Jake and Jacob go on their annual horse ride to Utah.
May -- I go with my mom and sil to New York City. Jake, Spence and I go to Utah, and we go to a D-back game.
June -- We go to Utah for a wedding, I get to fly back to get my boys on Monday -- we leave on Saturday :)! We go to the Wildlife Zoo.
July -- We go yet again to Utah for another wedding and our family reunion. I take the boys to the circus.
August -- The boys all go to school and we MOVE!!
September -- We had a party.
October -- We have more paries and cancel our trip back East because we have too much to do on our new house.
November -- Spencer turned SIX!! Fun Thanksgiving and black Friday with my mom and sister. Spencer does a performance at school.
December - Christmas! FUN, FUN, FUN Christmas Eve that needs to be blogged! Christmas mornin we sent my parents off on their latest mission!
Just recapping my year makes me TIRED!!!! 2010 was a wonderful year, but we are excited about 2011 and I am sure we will have some new adventures that we are sure to ENJOY! Happy New Year!

Christmas Card 2010

Ok, I have a ton of things that I want and need to blog about. . .somehow I have been crazy and haven't updated my family's day to day happenings. . .I guess those will go unpublished. . .but, I wanted to post more for my posterity our Christmas card and my first choice on Christmas cards -- Jake nixed it :) -- he thought we all should be in the picture. . . I ended running out of cards. . .maybe next year I will do better :). . .and I used the same card with a little improvement. . .


But my favorite part of this Christmas card, is the letter and Spencer's name. . .He was the first to sign, and wanted to be sure to have enough room to sign . . .I love this, someday he will probably be mad that I sent this out to so many friends and family. . .but, it is Spencer right now.

 

To those who I inadvertently missed, I am sorry, leave me a note and I PROMISE you won't be forgotten next year! We wish you all a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Snowman Quilt

It's DONE and on the WALL!

 

I have spent a long time working on my snowman quilt, and had a goal. . . to have him hanging BEFORE Christmas. . . the clips came today, and I love having him up! I have a huge sense of satisfaction seeing it all done. . . a fun project and I LOVE the outcome!