Goodbye to 2011, and Hello to 2012

Well here it is my New Year Post! It's very long so be prepared. I like to go back and look at our year and review what we did in the last year. It's so much fun to remember what we did and see how much the kids have changed in a year. It's amazing how much they change each year! I al also including my Christmas post in this so I can "hit 2 birds with 1 stone''. I just don't have as much time as I used to but still like to update the blog so all you guys can see. So here we go!

January
We went up to Heber with Brad's family to celebrate the New Year. 4-wheeling and playing in the snow. We had a blast and little miss Devin was doted on by all of Brad's cousins.

Playing Left, Right, Center with all the cousins

Alex had a blast Sledding

Some 4-wheeling

Alex and Brad...

Feburary

We didn't do a whole lot. Other than enjoying having Brad home more often since his graduation!

1st walk with little miss Devin

Daddy feeding Devin for the 1st time

Devin's Stacker toy, I finally was able to finish.

March

Again not too much going on. Devin turned 6 months and finally started sitting up, crawling and pulling herself up. And Alex decieded he was finally done with diapers!!!!

So, Proud of herself!

April

We celebrated Easter. Built a Shed in the backyard. And Alex was invited to a couple birthday parties.

The Completed Shed

Easter Basket Hunting

Miss Devin and her Easter Basket

Hunting Eggs

Devin enjoyed watched the egg hunt rather than participate

The Reptile Birthday

May

Brad and I celebrated our 4th anniversary, and also celebrated Brad's cousin's high school graduation. Alex loved gymnastics and had his last day of preschool.

Balance beam 

Alex's Preschool program. He was not into singing, instead he messed around and talked to everyone

Last Day of School

The Graduates and Devin

Brad's Cousin cody, and friend Jeni

All of us at Chelsie's Graduation Party

June

We went to Powell! 

The Road trip down was exhausting

more sleepy heads

Alex and Slade riding on the boat!

Alex and Daddy on the boat

Devin loved playing the water and sand

Brad's cousin Chelsie and my little water baby

Her Life jacket was a bit big

So Sleepy

Alex LOVED peeing off the back of the boat!

July

We were off to visit Brad's mom in California and my parents in Oregon! 1st we stopped in Vegas. Next stop was Brad's mom, next the redwoods in northern california, next my parents house in Oregon and finally back home! And of course we celebrated Devin's 1st Birthday!!!

Vegas hotel. Devin and Alex loved jumping off the couch into pillows

Ceasar's Palace

At the redwoods

Alex loves peeing outside

The Oregon Coast

Alex & Devin with Nanny & Papa. He was not in the mood for a picture

August

We Celebrated My 25th birthday and Brad's 29th birthday. And enjoyed the last little bit of summer.

Devin and Harper fighting over the Dora Cup

September

We celebrated Alex's 4th Birthday. We visited Brad's mom in California again, and went into San Francisco for the weekend. And had to take Devin to Primary Children's for a UTI

Giants Game!

At&T Park

Alex having cake for Breakfast on his Birthday!

Devin on the Peir

The Pirate Ship

And Primary Children's

October

Aquairum, Gardner Village and Halloween fun!

Halloween Party. Devin and Deven

Devin and Avery

All The kiddies

Gardner Village

Nanny & Papa's

Halloween!!!

The Cutest little Dog Pack.

Dane, Logan & Austin

Novemeber

I pretty much don't have any pictures of November. None the less. We had our very 1st Thanksgiving at our house. I didn't take any pictures since I was cooking! But The day started out with my FRESH turkey being frozen solid! Had to return it and get one that wasn't frozen! Good thing Whole Foods is awesome! But other than that hiccup, the day went well! We had family over and it was wonderful!

The Aunt, Uncle and Cousin watching football

My Cute lil' Grandma

Alex and cousin Kaiden dressing up

Grandpa Pedro and Devin

December

The last month of 2011 was very busy. I didn't get much time to blog. So here is my entire Christmas post! We had a wonderful Christmas season! I didn't get out much and shop, since having 2 kids makes shopping extremely stressful! So instead I shopped online! But we did some fun stuff. We went to temple square with brad's mom, like every year. And like every year Alex was a grump! Devin was an angel. She just sat in the stroller looking at everything. Alex on the other hand, had to sit in time out by the nativity scene, because he was throwing a fit about going in to see the "Big Jesus". Last thing I wanted to do was push our double stroller through the masses of people in the building! So time-out ensued and after that we decided to call it quits for the night.

Christmas was alot of fun this year. Alex had a hard time with the concept of time though. He didn't quite get that Santa wasn't coming for a few weeks. He finally got it down to understand "Christmas isn't tomorrow". 

On the 23rd we went to Brad's cousin's to open presents and eat dinner. Alex always has so much fun over there with all the kids.

He had a blast Christmas eve when my parents came over to give Alex and Devin their 1st Christmas presents. We then we to a friends house for their annual Christmas eve party. It is so weird to see how old their girls are since I used to babysit them. The youngest was Alex's age when I started watching them. They were in love with Devin and their Devin was a doll with Alex, carrying around his lego guys for him.

We had a wonderful Christmas. Alex was so excited to open presents. He was really good about waiting until Daddy and Nana had coffee and were sitting down. Opening presents took quite a bit longer since we had to help Devin open hers, and open toys for Alex along the way. Devin wasn't really interested in opening presents at first but got into it and like pulling the paper. She was quite the princess, opening some shoes and a skirt and she has to put them on right away. 

Later that morning we went over to my mom's to open presents, then my cousins came over and we had omelets and more presents. Back to our house for nap time. And then over to my parents for dinner and the last bit of presents. The kids were exhausted by the end of the day and so was I but we had a great Christmas!

Temple Square

Nana and the Kids at the reflection pool

Daddy and Devin

Making a gingerbread house and train

Devin opening her present from Nanny and Papa

She LOVES shoes! She wanted them on immediately!

Alex opening his Alien Legos

Dani and Devin at the Christmas Eve Party

After Santa Visited! We didn't have any presents under the tree since I didn't trust Devin to leave them alone.

Alex and Devin playing with their Kitchen!

Nana got Alex & Devin cowboy boots and hats. 

Devin in her new shoes, skirt, and backpack

And at Nanny and Papa's for dinner. They love rough housing with Papa

And to wrap up 2011. New Years!

We went to Brads cousin's house for New Years. Both Kids managed to make it to midnight, and Brad and I made $60 playing left, right, center: a dice game. We said goodbye to 2011 and Hello to 2012. 

We are looking forward to the coming year! 

Devin loved playing in the dog pen

The cutest little puppy trying to drink Brad's Beer

Brad gave in

Playing Left, Right, Center

Devin trying to make it to midnight

The puppy did not

Alex and Chelsie playing Left, Right, Center

Devin, minutes away from Midnight

And Midnight

Brad's Cousin Karma

Not sure where Alex was when we took this picture

And Princess Devin, ready for the New Year!