My Apologies and Thanks

I just want to say that I am sorry for being a flaky blogger. I have made new goals for myself to set aside a little bit of time every week to add to my blog, look at other peoples blogs and you know just fulfill my blogging responsibilities. I also want to say thank you to those of you who have kept checking my blog just to see if there have been any changes. Thanks for not giving up on me.

Quick Catch Up

We were a family of witches for Halloween. fun huh. I wanted Mia to be something that babies usually aren't for Halloween, so after tons of searching for a costume she was a witch for her first Halloween. You can't really tell, but Mia and my dresses are the same. and I made her broom. I'm so crafty. (lol)

we spent Christmas in California, It was tons of fun, we spent a little bit of time with Lance's family but since we did Thanksgiving with the Thorson's we spent most of the time with the Marler's. We went to the Wild Animal Park and Bates nut Farm and had a lot of fun. I was the one taking all the pictures so naturally I am not in any of them. don't worry you guys aren't missing out on anything.

My Family came to AZ for Thanksgiving, and we went to Utah. wasn't that convenient, we got to spend a day with them before we left, so we went on a small hike to a cool rock near our house, so here is Mia waring her "I'd rather be hangin' with grandpa" T-Shirt that my dad got her with her auntie Coli and Uncle Jeffy.

We went to Utah and spent Thanksgiving with Lances Mom's side of the family. We stayed in the Timp Lodge in or near Provo, Utah.

We spent New years Eve in Pine Arizona playing Rock Band, pretty much it's the funnest game ever. And when 12 rolled around we enjoyed some fireworks and Mia slept through the whole thing.

We hiked Camelback mountain with our friends Mike & Bianca Marshall, it was the hardest hike I have ever done! the Subway in Zion National Park is long and parts of it are difficult (the end) But with Camelback the whole thing is physically challenging. and we went into it thinking it was going to be a trail and it would take an hour or less (so that is what we planned for) But it took 3 or 4 hours and it was climbing big rocks up hill the whole time. I need to give huge props to Lance for carrying Mia the whole way and Bianca for doing the whole thing pregnant.

We moved to a new apartment it is just 1/4 mile a way from our old one, but we did it in hopes that we could save a little more money and get into a house sooner. This apt. is not as nice as our old one, but it does have some perks, like it has 2 bedrooms, and 2 1/2 baths, it's actually a townhouse, it doesn't have as much storage as our old place, but we are saving $ living there. Hopefully we'll be in a house by Christmas. Mia loves climbing up the stairs, it's just unfortunate that she hasn't figured out how to go down, fortunately we haven't had any big tumbles.