2012 Year in Review

We are blessed. As I look at our family and everything that goes along with it, I am overwhelmed with love and joy. God is good. Life is wonderful. And we are blessed.

2012 brought lots of fun and wonderful memories.

January-
Lots of dear friends and family came and shared with us as Alice was given a name & blessing.

We also (finally) moved to a new ward and started making new friends.

February-
Jacob turned 6 made complete with a Mario Brother's party.

March-
Georgie celebrated her 4th birthday,

 John & I, along with the little girls, made a quick trip to Oklahoma City for a job interview,

 while we were there we drove down to Dallas to visit our Texas cousins.

{Sterling & Alice, Abi & Naomi, Miles and Ashton}

I made a very sad, but much appreciated weekend trip to Sacramento for my dear friend Chrissy's daughters funeral. 

{Toni, me, Chrissy, Melanie & Amelia}

April-

We celebrated Easter

took a trip to Papa & Grandma's for Spring Break

Alice met Grandma Great

 and Naomi potty trained at 23 months old

May-
Naomi turned 2

Melly came for a visit

 Georgie finished her 1st year of preschool

 {first day, last day}

I got loved on for Mother's Day by four goofballs!

June-

John was loved on for Father's Day

 Jacob finished kindergarten {first day, last day}

Weekly Wednesday beach days began

 We went to Mormon Night at Dodger Stadium

July-
we celebrated our Nation's independence

 we took a road trip to Utah and visited friends

 {MaKenna, Dani, & Emi}

 {Meme, me, & Melly}

and had a really fun week-long family reunion with aunts, uncles, cousins, and Papa & Grandma before heading to Boise for the big Meldrum Family Reunion

 and visited Utah State University where I went to college. (Go Aggies!)

 August-
 Friends came to visit

 {Kyle, Madeleine, Andrew, Jacob, Noelle, Norah, Georgie, & Tommy}

{Ruthie, Elizabeth, Meme & Amelia, me}

we had the last weekly beach day and pool day

School started for Jacob (1st grade) and Georgie (pre-K preschool).

 

John's birthday was celebrated
soccer started for Jacob

 and a weekend camping trip to Morro Bay was taken.

September-
Jacob started soccer games and score during the very first game

Alice started walking just days before she turned 10 months

 Georgie started Lunch Bunch with some friends from the ward

 {Sam, Eli, Georgie, (Naomi), Lana, Megan, & Ellie}

 and, after over a year off, we renewed our Disney Annual Passports and Alice experienced her first time at California Adventure

 John and I also celebrated 9 years of marriage. It went un-documented and un-celebrated.

October-
Brought Fall Break and friends play days, one at The Huntington Gardens

{Elizabeth with Adam & Courtney, Meme with Amelia, Heather with Xander, Heather with Corbin, & me with Alice}

{Tommy, Kyle, Andrew, Miley, Noelle, Jacob, Madeleine, Norah, Naomi, & Georgie}

we made trips to Lombardi Ranch with classmates, friends, and as a family

 and we celebrated Halloween with class parties, ward parties, and trick-or-treating.

November-
It doesn't seem possible but we celebrated Alice's 1st birthday with an Alice in Wonderland party

 we took our annual leaf pictures with friends

Jacob had his final soccer game, the Angry Space Birds won all but 2 games

 and we thought about all we have to be thankful for as we celebrated Thanksgiving at school and with family

December-
was filled with lots of family time: time reading about the life of Christ in the scriptures, time looking at Christmas lights around town, time feeling the Spirit and seeing the lights at the temple, time celebrating with friends and family, time visiting with Santa and letting him know our hearts desires. It really was the most wonderful time of the year.

We've accomplished a lot this year. Our babies are getting bigger each passing day. They're becoming little people, with their own thoughts and ideas, they're own views on how the world operates. It's incredibly fulfilling and, can be, extremely frustrating. We're all learning and growing together through this life.

I feel so incredibly blessed to have each one of them in my life. They are my greatest accomplishment and joy. I am very much grateful for all the experiences we've shared in 2012, good and bad, and I'm looking forward to what 2013 will bring.

Thank you for the ride 2012,
Happy New Year!
Love,
Us- John, Kelsi, Jacob, Georgia, Naomi, & Alice

{December 2011}

 {December 2012}