Keepin' up with us

Here I am with time to reminisce about our past year.
Fall Break is a lovely time to play in the leaves. 

 Gabey was Pooh for halloween.

 Ollie was a hot car guy?

My mom came to visit around fall break. We look like hell in this picture. My mom looks good, though. That was an extremely busy time for everyone. With my mom, we made cookies, went on a "nature party" to sundance, went to the park, and generally had a nice visit. She always helps so much when she comes.

 Kelly came to visit Utah. What a couple of cuties.

Greg came to visit:

There was a period of time there during Oliver's student teaching and general chaos of life when we didn't have time to get the mail for several weeks. lol. Then we did:

Not everyone was feeling the stress of business, though:

During Christmas break, we enjoyed our time in Chico. Dad and I won a pretty significant game in the pinochle tournament. It was a big come back, so we took a pic of us with the winning score sheet:

Gabe STILL talks about his snowman cake every time the word birthday comes up, and sometimes even with no provocation. Greg made it for him:

 My beautiful sisters in law and I went on a holiday date to Gardner Village to shop and eat.

Spring time found us exploring lots of new activities around the area to keep us busy and happy.
We went to the Bridal Veil waterfall a few time:

We went to the aquarium.

Gabe decided to take his baby and stroller everywhere:

Gabe and Josie decided to break the world record for cutest cousins:

We went to hang time jump place a few times.

We went to Hee Haw Farms.

we went to the BYU bean museum and creamery:

we hiked (about half) of the Y:

we watched the Oscars with the fam:

Gabe and Josie tied up the phone lines:

we took many trips to barnes and noble:

(pic of ollie and g reading)



ollie joined a band. What a hottie: 

we got a 3 month pass to the Provo Rec center so that we could play in their waterslide/pool area in the colder months. How cute is Gabe's pass?

We made an impromptu trip to Chico when my Grandma Drummond died.
Gabe liked staying at the Nugget on our way out:

 My beautiful friend Alisa took this family picture for us after the funeral:

 more about funeral

Gabe painted a lot:

and his favorite toys continued to be his princess castle, figures, and horses:

I went to visit Greg. We went to Chico for a few days. We painted in the park:

 and hiked by the ocean:

Micheal came to visit:


gabe drew his first person. Guess where? Ollie's new classroom!!! Yep, my lovey got himself a job teaching 4th grade. He is going to help a lot of kids.