2013 Highlights (Jan-March)

I didn't blog much at all in 2013, so I decided to do some posts with all of our family highlights throughout the year. It's split up by month (except this first post has 3 months in it cause there wasn't much in them). We had a great year and are looking forward to another great year in 2014!

For some reason when you scroll through the different posts, it completely skips August, September, October, and December. I don't know why, but I find it SOOOO very frustrating. To see those posts, you'll have to go to the sidebar on the right til you see blog archives. Click on 2014 and you'll see all the different months listed there. You can then click on them individually and view them.

I ran into so many issues trying to post all of these over the last couple of days. So glad to be done!

JANUARY

Katelyn turned 4 years old!

2013 Highlights (April)

For spring break and Easter, we went on a trip to Disneyland for the week. So much fun!!
We went to the beach.

2013 Highlights (May)

David and Kyler went to the Fathers and Sons outing in David's dad's ward with Grandpa, Tyson and kids. It was up Hobble Creek canyon. They had fun!

2013 Highlights (June)

The girls took a dance class during the summer. They loved being in the same class as their neighbor friend and enjoyed dancing.

2013 Highlights (July)

Stadium of Fire. David got some free tickets from a work contact. Floor seats on the grass. Awesome! Kelly Clarkson performed and some other people I don't remember. Circe du Soleil performed too. Beautiful fireworks!

2013 Highlights (August)

We went on a weekend trip to St. George and Zions National Park. It was such a fun getaway! We want to make it a yearly tradition. We took the kids to see "Mary Poppins" at the Tuacahn. Kyler was too young to go, so we sent him to the showcare they have on site. It was an amazing show!! The girls were in awe the whole time and kept asking, "wow, how did they do that?!" We swam in our hotel pool, went to Zions and did a couple of the kid friendly hikes (beautiful!), and visited a little ghost town.

2013 Highlights (September)

Alpine Loop. It's our yearly tradition in the fall (unless I'm pregnant). It's one of my favorite traditions we do. This year we drove the loop, ate dinner at Sundance, and rode the lift to see the pretty fall colors.

2013 Highlights (October)

Janae came to visit. Unfortunately, we didn't take very many pictures while she was here. Oops.

2013 Highlights (November - Part 1)

I attempted doing our own family pictures for the second year in a row. It worked! It's super stressful and nearly impossible, though. I started seeing blind spots towards the end of taking the pictures (which means a migraine is coming on), but it was totally worth it to have pictures on our wall that I took myself! Not that I don't like pictures taken by other people, it's just kind of fun to look at them on my wall and think, "I did that!". Allyson lost one of her front teeth the very next day. It was hanging on by a thread and I told her not to try and pull it until we got our pictures done.

2013 Highlights (November - Part 2)

We went to Singapore for a week.  It was my 30th birthday surprise.  It was so fun and relaxing! It was also the first stamp I've ever gotten on my passport - woot! David booked himself to do a speech for work out there and worked it out so I could go too. He never told me he was doing this speech and come to find out had been working on booking it for a few months. David says it's a good thing he'd never cheat on me cause there were several times when he had calls with the client at around 2 or 3 in the morning and he would sneak out of the house and go up to his work in Alpine to take the calls. I had no idea he even left!
This is on the plane on our way out there. It was about 20 hours of flights to get there and 20 hours of flights to get back. I think I was the only weirdo on the plane who wasn't watching the free in-flight movies. I hadn't read a book in sooo long, so I decided to spend my quiet time of no interruptions to read. I finished 2 books!

2013 Highlights (December)

David's work party. It was awesome!!! Nice to get together with all the fun people David works with. I can't tell you what we did though, it's top secret. ;)