In March I was blessed my my first baby niece Annistyn. What a beautiful baby girl she is!
She's the first baby girl on our side of the family so she's a little spoiled sometimes but I think she deserves it :) I learned how to make a quilt and made this one for when she was born.
I finished up my first year at USU. I had a lot of fun adventures but not many pictures to show for it. This was when my friend Craig took me and his blind roommate Quinn out shooting. That was such an interesting experience!
After school I got to move back home for the summer. I got to spend a lot of time with my nephews and niece while they lived with us. Never a dull moment with these kids :)
I was also able to work at FMC again this summer. It was a lot of fun because my dad and brother both work there so I got to see them quite often. They definitely look out for me!
I also met a lot of new people and got to know old friends better. I loved that job for the most part... except one night when I was working graveyard shift and there was a packrat in the warehouse!!! Luckily he liked cheeze-its and I was able to catch him!
At the beginning of the summer I had the opportunity to spend a weekend in Roosevelt with a friend from school and his family. I went on my first real horse ride through the mountains and it was a lot of fun! I was too scared to go very fast though haha!
Every summer our family has a reunion at Cherry Hill water park.
I also got to go on my first backpacking trip. What a neat experience that was! It was so beautiful up there and I had a lot of fun. Thank you Orin :-)
Also thanks to Orin I had my first experience golfing (other than mini golf).
I can't say I was any good but it was fun to try!
I killed my first 'lil antelope! I was pretty excited about that! I went
deer hunting but was not as successful. But it was a fun experience!
In November I got to go with my family to Disneyland. We had a lot of fun on that adventure!
We were able to celebrate my Grandma's 90th birthday in November before she passed away this weekend. What an incredible woman she was. I feel so blessed to have had her for my grandma for so long.
I decided to learn how to make these cute blocks and was able to give them to
some special people for Christmas!
These are just a few of my experiences/ accomplishments in 2011 but it really was such a great year full of fun, learning, and great people. I was able to spend a lot of time with my wonderful family. I gained new family members who are so loving and supportive. So as 2012 begins I hope to not "be out with the old" because those are the people that made this year so great. I hope to keep all of my old friends and family members just as close. But I do plan to "bring in the new" and see what this year has to offer. I plan to embrace all of the opportunities I am given to learn, try new things, and meet even more great people.
