Glancing back, looking forward.

For me the beginning of a new year is always exciting. The first weeks are full of anticipation for what is to come and reflection on what has passed. We had such a busy year in 2011! A year that was blessed with many opportunities to celebrate and share each other’s joys. Two grand babies and a daughter-in-law joined the family. We traveled to Argentina for a missionary's release and to Utah for baby showers, baby births, baby blessings, a grandma's passing, a college drop off and a college graduation. Simultaneously the kids kept the front door revolving with trips home for vacations, summer employment, appointments, school breaks, a wedding, and a missionary's homecoming, just to visit grandpa and grandma and best of all Christmas. And, we continued to have the opportunity to associate and create memories with dear friends camping, celebrating back yard holidays and in our capacities of church service.
All that unfortunately, left very little time to share here the events we enjoyed so much. Hence, the long post below that will hopefully catalog the moments and choice experiences that made 2011 such an amazing year for us. We are greatly blessed!! Life, even with its ups and downs, is good to us. We have a wonderful family, good employment, a great community and associations with the best people to be found anywhere. We are grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives and value above everything else, as it affords us our many blessings, our membership in His church. We recognize the hand of our Father in Heaven in our daily lives and feel deep gratitude for all that we are given and blessed with each year. With that gratitude and humility for life and blessings we anticipate the New Year. It will no doubt, be filled with just as much love and joys to share as the year that has passed. We hope that your new year will also be filled with much joy and great blessings!!

Love to all,
Paige