2011 is gone...

February is here which means 2011 is officially gone.  But I never had a chance to tell it goodbye and remember a few favorites that may or may not have made it up here...

Our biggest change was adding little emmers to the family.  What an amazing addition she has made.  We love her fiercely some kids might love her a little too fiercely sometimes! (but i won't name names)

she created a bit of a chain reaction- thanks to her addition we had to get a little larger- car that is.  and we made the plunge to the mini van.  (i think i just threw up in my mouth a little bit)  i love it and hate it.  They really are pretty amazing. But i still can't believe i am driving one.  it has a tv and satellite radio oh and doors that open with the touch of a button. amazing. when they call my name after changing my oil i might slink up to the counter hiding my face in shame a little still though.

And the mini has satellite radio- which means that this past year has been draped in songs from radio disney- i could sing every song by justin beiber, selena gomez, lemonade mouth,  tayolor swift (ok i actually really love her).  I laugh every time camiron has to sing along.  She is very determined in her singing and hopes to get every word right.  There are car fights on who is better justin or taylor.   thank goodness they also play adele.  I love the raspy voice of adele.

We also officially made it through a whole year of troy in the bishopric.  it has been touch and go at times.  he never feels like he is never doing enough at home, work or church.  i always feel like he is doing too much.  he is amazing.  i still wish our building wasn't 40 minutes away. that is still the hardest part.  i am also grateful troy didn't have to deploy this year.  unfortunately the rest of his department did- ok that is a bit dramatic. only half the department deployed leaving them half staff but the same amount of patients.  we will just say he worked hard.  really really hard this year.  phew.  but i was happy to have my guy here with me.

which leads me to 10 years.  10 years we have been married!  how crazy is that.  Troy went camping with his friends to celebrate.  i was excited for him though, because he has been hoping to get on his boys camping trip with his buddies for the last 10 years.  just so happened it fell on our day the year he finally got to go!  but to make that up to me- we both finally got new wedding rings (mine was stolen years ago and his was lost- 12 times over until it officially couldn't be found again).   it was fun to both have rings again.  until troy lost his 2 months later.  Hilarious!!  so if you ever come across a mans wedding ring- there is a chance it could be one of troys lost ones?...

braden learned to read this year.  really read chapter books and spell big words. he loves to be the star of every sport he plays.   braden didn't break any teeth this year thank goodness, but did lose his first.
Camiron knows all of her letters and sounds and can count to 100.  she made the gymnastics team and will apparently be competing this year.  what does a 4/5 year old compete? i am really interested to know.  she loves it though- especially after sitting out with her broken arm for 6 months.  6 months is an eternity to a 4 year old.
emory grew 4 teeth, learned to sit up, crawl, giggle, and wreck all wreckable toy items of the other kids.  priceless.


loves to 2011 you brought us many good great and hard things.