Year In Review..2011

When you think about a year in the present you often think of it being a long time but when you are looking in the past you can't believe all that has happened and all the things that have changed.


I have spent days working on this post. Wondering what to write, how to put into words our year and this is all I could come up with.

I have changed more in this year then in any year past and sometimes I am not sure what direction I am going and who I am trying to become. I try day by day to figure that out and as of right now I am still a work in progress. I know that life is ever changing but sometimes it changes more than you could have ever expected.


{Here is our 2011}



2011 was such a life changing year that it's hard to put into words how I feel about it. I don't think I have ever been so happy for a year to end in my life. It has been such a life changing year for both Adam and I. It has been such a roller coaster of things from the beginning of the year with Adam leaving the church to going to Florida for our anniversary to Disneyland with Hollie and Steve to welcoming Jett into our family to Nala turning 2 to Adam changing jobs twice and going on his first business trip to becoming an Aunt and Uncle to an adorable nephew to seeing Cali and Jordan leave on missions to Adam's sister Sara getting married to being able to spend my birthday with my Dad for the first time ever to taking Ember to the aquarium and Chuck E Cheese to welcoming Jacob and Lucy into our family to buying our first car together to having Thanksgiving at our house to Adam's sister Erin getting her mission call to the Czech/Slovakian area to seeing the American Idols in concert to our first ever camping trip being married to finishing our fence to many date nights together to many midnight movies to many outings with friends to spending every holiday and birthday together to lots of laughs and lots of new memories shared and created.

At the aquarium

Beautiful Nala 

Camping for the first time together

Our hand-built fence

Lucy

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Jacob 

Playing at the Park

Sara gets married

Erin gets her mission call

Baby Jude is welcomed into the family

Adorable Jett

 Adding three new pups into the Collet family
Brothers Jake and Lewis
and  Jackson

Thanksgiving

Family Pictures

Disneyland and Six Flags with Hollie and Steve

Florida

Jordan and Cali before leaving on their missions

Buying our first car together

What a year... goodbye 2011!

Pinterest Addict..

So there there is this website called Pinterest that is amazing and I am not only in love with it I think i'm a bit obsessed...

I check it at least once a day and am always adding things to my boards! It's such a genius idea that I wish I would have been brilliant enough to come up with it!

If you have not heard about it our seen it you must go there now... oh wait maybe on second thought you may not want to because I can promise you you will become just like me.. in love!

So far this is what I have made from the ideas on that site in random order.

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Here are the ones I have done but have been silly enough not to take pictures of my own so these will have to do. Just image mine not as good at theirs lol

This is a really easy hair style if you have longish hair...super fast too!

Still working in this. It's taken longer than anticipated.

Just made these for our New Years Party and they were a hit! 

Made this for a gift for the in-laws with Adam's families names.

Made the mummy one for a treat for my family for Halloween.

Made this for my Sister and Brother-in-law for Christmas..minus the frame but still as cute!

Also made these beauties for my Sister and Bro-in-law for part of there wedding gift.

I love crafting as you can tell and I'm sure I'll make more soon!!

If you want to check out not only these ideas and more click HERE you will have to request an invite but that doesn't take long and you will soon be on you way to crafting heaven!!

Oh and they have much more than craft ideas on there :)

Christmas Celebrations 2011...

Christmas this year was with my side of the family and boy was it a great one. On Christmas Eve went to dinner at Sizzler with my Mom and Grandparents and then played games afterwards. We woke up the next morning and opened the presents from Adam's parents and siblings.

Hammock from Chad and Kellie

We really didn't spend too much on the pups for Christmas this year seeming as we feel as though they are spoiled enough throughout the year but gave them hugs and made sure they knew they were loved.

 We then got ready and headed over to my Mom's and Grandparents house and ate a yummy breakfast, after we sorted gifts and tried taking turns opening gifts but my mom was not good a following that rule so it didn't last to long. We got a lot of good things. My mom gave us each a small Christmas tree with gift cards attached all over it. It was such a neat gift we loved it! We opened our stockings. We draw names every year and you can only spend $10 dollars and it has to be from the dollar store. It is a fun tradition we do.

We had a great time opening presents and enjoying our new gifts! We are so lucky to have such an amazing family to share the holidays with!

We got my Grandparents a 19inch marble Chirstus statue which they loved!

The rest of the family joined in on the fun later that afternoon and opened gifts, chatted, played games, ate yummy food and playing with the cutest babies ever!

It was a great Christmas and to spend it with the people you love is even better!! We are so blessed to be surrounded by incredible people both family and friends!!