2010 a year in review

January- had our visit to "the cabin" (Thundering Waters) near Helen, GA in the north GA mountains. We fell in love at first site and have been visiting ever since!

February- we had our "Snowmagedon", and lots of learning about what toddler-hood was going to be like!

March- one of the hardest months of our lives. We lost my oldest sister Shauna and made the long cross country drive in our little CRV to Utah for her funeral. The reason for the drive was not thrilling of course, but being with family to say goodbye to her and seeing our beautiful country was awesome. We celebrated lots of birthdays and (oops) forgot about our 3 year anniversary!

April- (end of March) we went to the cabin again, and celebrated Easter with the Smith side of the family. Ben and his cousins had fun doing their Easter egg hunt!

May-had a baby shower for Hillary, photographed a wedding, went camping and got rained out, heard news of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico as well as some other catastrophic environmental events like the volcano eruption in Iceland. Also, my big sister Delinda graduated with her PhD from Emory and had visits from her and my brother Greg to celebrate!
June- Ryan's birthday! Had a week of "staycation" and went to the zoo, swimming, saw Little Hunter E. at the hospital, made a blanket fort in the family room, and lots of other fun things! Planted our first (vegetable) garden and were oh so proud of it's development!
July- we had a SUPER fun 4th of July with lots of fun activities like watching fireworks with friends and going to a parade with Nana. Lots of swimming and playing. We spent the day with Nana & Poppy at White Water. They were kind and treated us to a FUN day of water slides and pools! Watching our garden progress and produce the first signs of veggies! Ryan and I had our visit whole weekend away to St. Simon Island to do wedding photos for the Kranendonk family. Had a little stop at the beach and enjoyed the beautiful scenery there.
August- Ben started really changing a lot and growing up including using the potty more often than not. We traveled to South, south, south Atlanta area to pick out a Lhasa Apso puppy for Nana and Poppy and ended up with this cutie that we all named Sofie. She's not even a year old and is much bigger than our Lhasa! We think Ally must be a "miniature" Lhasa... and Sofie is not.

September-went to the cabin, again... and had SOOOOO much fun swimming and tubing in the Hooch. Went to the Sesame Street show at Philips Arena, our A/C went out for a whole weekend, saw some old friends.
October- Ben FINALLY has finished getting teeth. For the love of all that's holy that took forever. The Chilean miners were rescued, there was a TORNADO in my hometown of Flagstaff, AZ (which is so weird still...), we went to the pumpkin patch, Ben sleeps in a big boy bed (The "school bus"), Ben is a pirate for Halloween. We went to the ward Trunk-or-Treat, trick-or-treated in the neighborhood and at the Terry's house. Ryan and I went to the Weezer concert and got like FIVE ROWS away from Rivers Como! ACK! (jumping up and down screaming like a teenage girl!) Had a baby shower for Ashley!
November- my cousin Laura and her two kids came for a quick and fun weekend visit, we spent another COLD Thanksgiving with Delinda in Chicago and had a blast. We got a fun new little point and shoot camera.
December- well, you know... full of holiday fun! We had a very fun Christmas time with our little guy who really seemed to be "in" to Christmas this year! Little Savannah was born!
We had such a wonderful and busy year. A lot of good things to help drown out some of the bummer things. This year taught us more to love our families and friends and to cherish them and every minute we get the privilege of spending time with them. Hopefully 2011 will bring us lots of fun new adventures!