2012 IN REVIEW
Cliff notes again!

January - work started to pick up for Caleb.  He also was introduced to a friend of a friend around Christmas time who needed some maintenance done on his new house.  Caleb ran over to help and he made a great friend almost instantly.  After only a couple of weeks of meeting this friend, he came to our apartment and asked us if we would like to get out of our apartment and house sit for him until his house either was able to short sale or foreclose.  Later I found out it would be a nearly 4000 sqft home with the most amazing back yard and play set for my boys!  He told us it could be a year or maybe 2!  After talking to a member of our stake presidency and getting a boundary exception to stay in our awesome ward, we packed it all up and moved a half mile down the road! 

February - Lehi Days.  We thought it would be fun to go watch.  I love Pioneer days so much, maybe we would enjoy Lehi days.  We LOVE IT!  Luke tried his hand at Mutton bustin'.  It ended in tears!  He got stepped on when he fell off and said it really hurt to fall, and I think maybe his pride was bruised as well!  But he recovered quickly!  Ryan really wanted to catch a little baby chick in the chicken chase but with 200 kids and 4 little scared chicks he wasn't successful....this ended in tears too!

March - Luke played spring little league, coach pitch.  It was a lot of fun watching him play!  Luke is a natural at everything!  He has such a desire to learn new things and picks it up so fast!  He was on the A's.

April - Just before Easter this year, we got a little surprise!  We found out we were going to be adding another little one to our family!  We were really shocked and excited! 

Luke won the spring poetry contest!  He got to recite his poem at the schools 'spring sing' event.  He didn't have a microphone and it was outside on the grass and I think the people couldn't hear and were loud and he couldn't remember it and messed up a little and had a long pause in the middle.  But recovered nicely!

May - we were just a little scared when we met with our awesome OB and he took an ultrasound on our first visit!  He scared us when he mentioned he saw something strange and there might be 2 babies!  Caleb about ran away!  Later, at another appointment he confirmed only one baby! 

I got a new nephew!  Orin, Minette and Sadie welcomed Jake into the family!  And boy is he cute!

June - Ryan turned 4!  Caleb made him a captain America piñata (that nobody could break, so the adults had a great time too!)  He had a swimming party with his Cate cousins and got 2 fishing poles!  He was in heaven!  He loves to go fishing with Uncle Jeff and Uncle Steven at Tempe Town Lake.  (he is such a nice brother that he lets Luke use the other one!)

July - On July 2nd, my Grandma Flakes 94th birthday, early in the morning, she passed away.  She had been blind for over 10 years, it had been 15 years since my grandpa had died and she was not in good health.  We knew it was coming and were prepared but I was still heartbroken that my grandma had left us, but yet so happy for the reunion with her sweetheart and her 2 children who had passes away at young ages.  Maybe I was just a little jealous of the party that was going on in heaven! 

The day before heading to Snowflake for Grandmas funeral we found out we would be having a GIRL!  We were really excited (caleb was scared) to see what this new flavor was all about!

The boys and I were able to make it up to Snowflake twice in July.  Once for Grandmas funeral and then we went again for the Pioneer day celebration (my favorite holiday)!   It is always fun to see so much family and teach my little guys about our ancestors who were pioneers and obeyed the prophet when he sent them to settle Arizona!

August - Luke started 2nd grade at Benjamin franklin.  We didn't know what to expect, we loved loved loved his kindergarten teacher but didn't know anyone else!  Ryan started Preschool at the Lehi elementary school.  I got him tested for his speech.  He was having trouble with stopping his letters (f would come out as B, stuff like that).  His class was a small class.  He was one of 5 kids, the other 4 were hearing impaired.  Also in August, Calebs brother and his girlfriend had a stillborn little boy.  He was 28 weeks and just passed away and they couldn't figure out why.  It was very hard for them and I felt guilty being pregnant when she lost her baby. It was tough.

October - I turned 30!  yikes!

December - We welcomed the most perfect little girl into the world on December 2nd.  (Story to come later). 
Luke turned 7, and had his school Christmas concert on his birthday!  He won the school poetry contest for his grade (again) and preformed his poem in front of the audience before the concert started and they announced it was his birthday and everyone clapped!  He was pretty proud!
We had a fun Christmas.  Its always fun to have a baby at Christmas time!