2010 Recap!

January:

* I was just 12 days away from having our little Dallas!

New years was spent eating yummy food and visiting with Jer's sister Shayla and playing games like Sorry!

* Dallas Bryant was born on January 12th at 8:07 am. He was 7lbs, 2oz and 19 1/2 inches long.

*Ma came out to visit and we celebrated Brooklyn's 6th Birthday!

February:

*Jer and I changed the kid's rooms around. Now we are getting more sleep or I just got used to no sleep!

*We finally got into a somewhat schedule.

*Brook lost her 5th tooth by hitting it with a rock!

*We took our first outing with Dallas.

*Jeremiah's 29th Birthday!

*Valentine's Day! Then Jer left for a week for work. That was hard on us.

*I had a hard time juggling three kids for Dr. appointments and going places.

*Dallas went to church for the first time.

March:

*Went to see Aunt Shayla cheer in Denver!

*Dallas was blessed! Jer's sisters Amanda, Shayla and Courtney came so did my cousin Ryan's family! Jamie took pictures of us! So nice!

*While Amanda's family was here we celebrated Logan's 3rd Birthday!

*Went to the Denver Aquarium with all the family.

*Dallas smiled for the first time and started to coo!

*Jillian and Addison came down for a surprise visit.

April:

*Dallas' first Easter!

*Brook had her kindergarten music program! Brooklyn was learning to read at school more and more.

*We rearranged the boy's room again and we all got big time sick.

May:

*Mother's day... it was not my favorite holiday at all. I missed mom a lot.

*planted my experiment garden in a bag and planted my herbs for the year.

*Daddy left for hotline school for a week! we always miss him so much! We met up with Jer in Denver when school was over and stayed in a hotel and took the kids to the Boondocks for some put put and play time.

*Brook had her field day at school!

*Mason had his last day of preschool for the year! He did so well. I was surprised.

*lots of playing in the sprinklers and jumping on the trampoline!

June:

*Brook had her first t-ball game of the summer.

*Dallas giggles for the first time!

*We had a family reunion at Jer's uncle Robert's cabin!

*Father's day at the cabin and we gave daddy and grandpa a cute plaque of the grand kids.

*Mason's 4th swimming Birthday party.

July:

*Brook's last t-ball game.

*Mommy and kid's picnic in the yard.

*Brook rode her bike on two wheels for the first time!

*Jer and I took the kids to Cheyenne Frontier Days and visited with my cousin Ryan and his family in Fort Collins.

*My first ranch rodeo in Akron.

*Daddy was in the Akron Parade!

*Camping in the backyard!

August:

*Jillian and Courtney came up and we all went to the Sterling fair and Josh Turner/Luke Bryan concert!

*Dallas started to crawl!

*Brook started school at Akron Elementary.

*Mason started his second year at Akron Head Start in Ms. Jen's room!

September:

*We recommitted as a family to read our scriptures and say family prayers!

*spontaneous visit to Buena Vista, Colorado

*Dallas standing along furniture.

*Akron's yearly Air Show! The F16s were so cool and loud. the kids loved the tanks and WWII reenactment.

*Morris and Cindy Smith went with us to Estes Park. We saw the Stanley Motel from the shining and an elk and we hiked to a pretty waterfall. It was beautiful!

*I enrolled Brook in an online public school called COVA! What a huge decision full of excitement and nervousness!

*Brook met her new teacher with COVA at a local library and took her first DIBLES test.

October:

*General Conference was truly touching and helped me reevaluate my life's priorities.

*Jer and I had our first big anniversary weekend in Denver! We went to the Temple, PF Changs, and Black Hawk, CO. We soon realized that gambling isn't much fun when you have to work your behind off for every penny you get so we left and ate a nice dinner.

*I decorated with the kids and made Halloween goodies.

*Trick or Treating down Main St. in Akron with the Paul family and then I took the kids trunk or treating at the church.

November:

*I took the kid's pictures in our back yard!

*We got all our Christmas shopping done in Denver when we took our tv to get repaired.

*got a small dusting of snow and the big kids played in it before it melted and we had crazy warm weather for November.

*Thanksgiving at home just us but nice.

*A new niece was born! Brynlee Reese Burt born on November 30th at 8:03 am she weighed 6lbs, 15oz and was 20 inches long!

December:

*Jer had a job interview in Buena Vista! We were so torn up about what to do if we got the job and if we didn't get it. We really needed a change and the spirit was really prompting Jer.

*We waited a long time but finally decided we would put the Christmas tree up.

*Grandma Bailey, and Ma sent us some of their really yummy Christmas goodies.

*Jer and I took the kids to my cousin's house in Fort Collins to go ice skating. It was so nice visiting with some of my family. On our way home we stopped to see a real reindeer! The kids were amazed!

*Mason had his Christmas program. He was the cutest little sheep ya ever saw!

*Jeremiah got the job position at Y-W as a meter technician!!!

*We made Christmas goodies!

*Christmas Eve and Day were spent visiting with Jer's family. Jillian, Courtney, Shayla could come. only Amanda and her family didn't since they have the teeny tiny one at home. We ate, danced and talked. Christmas morning we talked with my parents on the computer then we had our own Christmas as a family.

*New year's Eve was spent with me, jer and the kids playing games, eating yummy food and watching movies! I guess that brings us full circle! Its been an eventful year but full of so much happiness and love!