Welcome 2012!

I can honestly say I am so glad that 2011 is over!! I would recap what happened but to be honest my days, weeks, months, all mesh together and I can't remember what honestly happened.  I do however know what happened the last couple weeks of December and I want to remember someone very special.  My grandma Adams passed away December 16, 2011 from complications with pnuemonia so the Tuesday before Christmas we had to go to Idaho for a funeral.  This picture was taken in April of 2009 it is 4 generations of the Adams girls.  That was the last time that I saw her, I know its sad but it is so hard to pack up everyone especially Jaren and all of his stuff and go somewhere he gets tired and ornery and so we just didn't have an opportunity to go up.



4 generations of Adams girls

The funeral was very good and it was nice to honor her.  She was a good lady and she was very good at her homemaking skills, to bad I didn't get some of those genes!!  The hardest part about the funeral was watching my grandpa saying good bye to his wife that he loved so much.  And him not knowing who anyone was.  Grandma Adams was 92 and her and my grandpa had been married for 72 1/2 years.  That is a really, really long time.  They were inseperable.  I know that Jaren and I will not have the privilege of being married for that long on this earth but I am so thankful for the knowledge I have that we will be together forever into eternity.  Goodbye Grandma Adams we love you and we will miss you!!

Christmas came and went and we had a really good Christmas.  Christmas eve we have a party at my moms house and my siblings and I rotate families my older brother Mat and his wife Becky and their cute kids had us for Christmas this year and he gave us the best present.  He used his points that he had saved up when he travels and was able to give us a 2 night stay at a hotel in Layton.  The kids reaction when they opened the present was really fun, they were already trying to decide what swimsuits and pajamas they were going to pack.  We went to Layton and stayed at the Townplace Suites and it was so nice and relaxing.  The kids got to go swimming in the pool and Jaren and I even got in the pool with them the first night and it was so fun it was almost like old times Jaren had energy and he was laughing with us and playing around in the pool with us it was so awesome.  We went to Layton Hills mall Friday and got to shop a little bit because we all had gift cards that we got to use.  We then went to see Alvin and the Chipmunks with my brother and his family and it was the cutest show we loved it, then we went to their house for dinner that night and ate together and played Wipeout on the Wii and laughed and just had a great time.  We even got to go to dinner on Thursday night to Red Robin I had a gift card for there from a while ago but it was walking distance from our hotel so we walked to the restaurant and ate.  We did not want to leave it was so nice.  But everything comes to an end I guess.  It was just what we needed somewhere to go that wasn't too far away in case something happened but far enough away that we felt like we got away from our everyday life.  It was very weird though to share a bed with Jaren again I haven't slept next to him for a couple months now and it was "crowded" now that I am used to having my own space when I sleep.  He did really well on our "vacation" and he really enjoyed himself.  So THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!! Mat and Becky for the awesome weekend we absolutely LOVED it!!!  That was the best way to say goodbye to 2011!! to bad we couldn't leave all the trials that will face us in 2012, but I was able to relax enough to fill my tank and be able to handle whatever awaits us in the coming months.