CALIFORNIA sunshine!

We spent a week in sunny So. California at my parents house and the weather couldn't have been more perfect, it was just the break I needed! It was sunny and 75 while we were there, and Danelle loved playing outside all day in the backyard. The best was our trip to the beach! Ahhh the sun.Listening to the ocean waves put him right to sleep.
I love that Lane has to go to California for work every so often, so we can tag along in the winter and get a bit of nice weather. It was also a good practice run for when we go out for my brothers wedding in March. The kids traveled great- we start training them young to handle the roadtrips! :)

Baby Blessing

Sunday, January the 16th we had our family and friends come for the baby blessing. It was so nice to be able to have so many people come celebrate our cute baby boy!

Lane smoked a ton of meat the day before (he got a smoker for Christmas) and we had some good ol' Texas BBQ for everyone after church. The kids all had a blast playing together as well. Danelle still talks about "boys and girls coming to her house to play". She thought that was the coolest thing ever!

Ski bunnies (and boarders)

A special shout out to the grandparents for helping with the kids so we could go skiing and snowboarding. I hadn't gone in 2 years and I have really missed it! This is Danelle's first year trying out skiing and so far she loves it. Lucky for her, Lane has enough patience to work with her. Her favorite part is the chairlift- which I was scared of my first time at age 12 :)

We figure if we start her at 3, she'll be ready for the olympics (or youtube) in a few years.

Our Top 10 of 2010

Here's our review of the past year -in chronoligical order... this is what makes blogs so good, it's easy to look back!!

*(the highlighted ones are the links back to that post)

10. Road trips to visit family in Missouri in January (for New Years) and in April

9. Finding out we were pregnant!

8. Lane & Elise's trip to Japan

7. Moving from Austin, Texas to Utah (bittersweet)

6. Elise's solo trip for Nathan's graduation & househunting

5. Celebrating our 6 year anniversary in Park City

4. Summer travels to Jackson Hole & Boise

3. Lane & Elise's trip to New York City & Boston

2. Getting Danelle potty trained

1. Birth of our baby boy Gunnison

This was one year ago.... can't believe how little Danelle (and I) used to be! :)

Hope 2011 is just as good!

Happy New Year!

Danelle got to go skiing with her dad up at Brighton. She did the "magic carpet" and bunny hill for about 30 mins and was loving it! After that I took her back to my grandparents and Lane stayed & enjoyed the fresh snow with his friend Bryan, his little boy Mack and his dad. This was the night before doing some test runs in the backyard. She told Lane she wanted to do it all by herself!

My sister and her family came down from Idaho and we got to hang out with them for the New Years. The little kids went to see Tangled with my Aunt and they loved all getting to play together.

These crazy kids loved getting to stay up super late. I wish I was as excited to do the same ;)

A rare "quite" moment:

And of course these two loved being together also! Gunnison and his cousin are 6 weeks apart!

Happy 2010!