2021 highlights

 2021!  What a year it was!  One of the best.  

Here are a few highlights from the year.....

 

  We followed Sailyr around all winter watching dance - and her first year of Cheer.

 

 

Saw a little puppy for sale on KSL

 

Watched Fin play basketball - and her first year playing volleyball.

 Painted the library, and the hallway bathroom

Sailyr baked us about a hundred cakes.

 

    

Brought home Birdie.

Not pictured - Devin had surgery.

Started Backyard Farm Pumpkins

  

Put in a fence

   

Watched Indie perform in her first ballet

Watched our little Rigby town come together after a shooting at the middle school

  

Got a swimming pool

 

Not pictured - Green Totes takes off!!!

Went on a family vacation to San Diego!

  

Devin's parents 50th anniversary in Island park

My mom's 60 Birthday celebrated with everyone here in Idaho

Also - not pictured - wrecked the Acadia, and bought the traverse.

  

Willow learned to walk - and walked all around the garden all summer.

Sheep moved in.  First time in sheep 4-H

  

Sold sheep at the fair - bulked up our college funds quite a bit!

And Finley started riding lessons

  

Fin starts guitar lessons

We have a great harvest from the garden!

  

Finley decides she wants to quit basketball and sign up for dance

 

We also go to Utah for the deer hunt

   

We have a fun halloween dressed up as Alice in Wonderland

And Sailyr goes hunting for the first time

  

Indie starts cheer

And we spend 6 months obsessing over Land of Stories.  Finished the last book in December.

  

Willow turned 1 - Indie turned 5 - Finley turned 9 - Sailyr turned 11 - I turned 35 and Dev turned 37.  

It was such a good year.  I love this life.

New Years Eve

Pictures are out of order, but yesterday was New Years Eve!  It snowed ALL day.  To be honest it hasn't stopped snowing in 5 or 6 days now.  But yesterday was a blizzard - and the snow was already a foot and a half deep - so it just got deeper and deeper as the day went on.  Around 3 it wasn't blowing sideways anymore so I made the kids bundle up and go out with Devin and I.  Devin got on the snow blower and made a big mountain out of all the snow on our back yard.  While the girls and I went and tried to make snow caves out of the big drifts of snow.   There are some crazy drifts - some are taller than us.   Once Devin made a big pile it started snowing like crazy again and we were freezing.  We had plans of making a big snow fort - but we slid down the hill a couple times and went inside.   

Then the kids had friends over and we played games until midnight - when we set off fire works and banged on pots and pans.  It was quite a ruckus.  We usually set off a wishing lantern - but it was so windy last night we weren't able to.  

Pictures of Willow and Birdie are from yesterday - they are little snuggle buddies.  Willow is always laying all over birdie when she is watching tv or drinking a sippy.  

And these are the puzzles we finished this week.