2010 Breakdown.

 Wow, I thought I posted this a while ago. Woops!

What a year 2010 was! Here's what happened with us:

Collin

• turned 1, had a small family party. The theme was monkey for the monkey!
• started talking
• started walking at 14 months
• got lots of teef
• started nursery in October
• loved to go to the day care and play with the other kids and toys at the rec center while I ran on the treadmill
• total outside boy
• developed a fascination/obsession with trucks, trains, and shapes
• looooooves his Grandpa's and Grandma!
• his favorite show was Yo Gabba Gabba, but has since discovered Team Umizoomi ("ZOOOMI"), but nothing can trump Baby Signing Time ("BEEBEE?!")
• finally, loves books. His favorite right now is There's a Wocket in my Pocket. He goes around the house saying "Wockeet? Pockeet! Neek? Seek! (Nink? Sink!)"
• finally, has a big enough attention span to sit down and do puzzles
• starting to say sentences, this morning he was surprised to see Daddy cause he's usually on his way to work when Collin wakes up, so when he saw him he looked at me and pointed at Randy and said "Wook! Da-ee!" He's also said "Dote chuch" (don't touch) and "I wuss ewe" (I love you). 
• Can count to 10! He thinks he can count to 20, though. After he says ten he says "can-ee!" (twenty! and also how he says candy)

Macey

•  started and graduated from Sunbeams! She loved her teachers.
• turned 4, had a princess birthday party with friends and had a castle cake!
• loves having friends over to play
• graduated from her 1st year of preschool from Miss Camalee's class! 
• developed a fascination with Scooby Doo, the only thing in her life that is not all girly
• obsessed over "decoraysh" and helping me decorate for the holidays 
• realized that she genuinely loves being a big sister and playing/sharing with her little brother (seriously, it's amazing how nice she is to him)
•  discovered her affinity for "sleepovers" (footed pajamas); she had serious 'tude when I had to box up her old ones from last winter. She kept trying to wear them during the SUMMER.
• gave swimming an actual try. Before we couldn't even get her to step foot into the water without her screaming, but we went a few times and she loved it.
• loves her Daddy-daughter and Mommy-daughter dates. We usually go to the dollar theater ("futer") and she eats it up!
• started talking with an accent, like, all the taam.
• started her last year of preschool (sniff sniff) and loves it with Mrs. Rose and Mrs. Rawlings and of course, all of her neighborhood friends! So far she's learned
• how to write her name correctly
• how to write and recognize the letters in the abc's, both capital and lowercase
• can sight read about 10 words and can sound words out, she is on the brink of reading! She is sooo close!
• counts time in sleeps. "how many sleeps until...."
• loooooves her Grandpa's and Grandma. I have to be careful when I tell her we're going to visit one of them because she literally cannot handle the wait. 
• Obsessed with drawing/coloring. She loves writing "thank you cards" to everyone she knows. 
• Her favorite shows right now are Scooby Doo, but will watch anything. She also loves Tangled (has seen it 3 times in "futers") and "Respectable Me"(Despicable Me)
• Is totally a cuddler, and I love it.  
• Is a total ham

DaNae 

• had a very hard time trying to control my stress and anxiety over the job search situation and the loss of our stocks
• started running again, finally. That helped my stress levels and anxiety a little.
• trained to run my first 5 miler!
• completed my first 5 miler! 
• ran in two other races, they were both 5k's that benefited cancer
• LOVED training outside on the trails by my house that are right next to the mountain 
• started  to count calories
• decided to go back to school and started in October
• when it got too cold outside to run, I started taking Collin to the rec center while Macey was at preschool so I could run on the treadmill and he could play at their day care
• have been kept very busy with taking care of the chillins, trying to keep a clean house, making dinners, doing laundry, carpooling, being a wife, exercising, oh yeah and SCHOOL. 
• at the end of the year, I had lost 33 lbs. I know, it sounds like a monstrous amount of weight, and you can kind of tell the difference, but I have more to go for sure before you can REALLY tell. I went from not being able to fit into my jeans to being able to fit in my jeans and almost ready to go down a size. I was hoping 30 lbs would make me look like I did in high school. Darn. ;) Yeah I don't think that can ever happen thanks to my awesome birthing hips.
• got 97%'s in both of my classes that I completed in December. Go me! 
• enjoyed being in charge of the monthly ward newsletter. That calling is right up my alley, I love it!

Randy

• had a hard time with stress about the job search situation, as well (but didn't show it as much as I did, he's good like that)
• his stress reliever has been fly fishing, it's his passion!
•  spent hours a day exhausting every lead, every job opening, etc. 
• worked the Census, that was.... interesting
• had his 10 year high school reunion in Logan, it was fun catching up with old friends and meeting new people! 
• had a job interview in Indiana (thank heavens he wasn't offered the job, because we would have had a REALLLLY hard time saying no. It was actually a blessing in disguise because he was offered the job in SLC 2 weeks later)
• finally, after 10 months of desperately searching, landed a job that has potential and he couldn't be happier! He loves going to work everyday!
•  has fun playing 'pick up basketball games' at the church twice a week
• liked trying to keep up with our yard and all the work it entails! He also made a new garden plot for us.
•  helped his brother build a monster skate ramp at his cabin
• built speaker stands and bookshelves for the kids' rooms
• also started watching his caloric intake and exercised more, he lost 20 lbs
• loved spending time with the fam outside, we went to a lot of parks for picnics and walks 
• sports, sports, and more sports. He is a big Jazz and BYU fan. We both are, but he is a die hard. 
• oh, and games. :) We went on a scrabble binge for a few weeks where that's what we would play every night. 
• enjoyed working with the 11 year old scouts and going on camp outs with them.  
 

2010 was a really challenging year for us, but we weathered the storms together and are looking forward to a bright 2011! Even though it was tough, we still managed to make a lot of good memories as a family and continued to have faith. And we accomplished a lot! We feel like we are where we are supposed to be in life and that is a great feeling!