It Happened in 2022

It's the end of the year, and I'm really excited because I love the New Year! It's so appropriate that I'm a New Year's baby - not because of parties or presents or anything like that, it's simply because I love the freshness and motivation that comes with the changing of a year. There are only two times a year I have an energy burst: when my kids go back to school and when a new year starts. I eventually hit a wall just like anyone else, but I'm gonna ride the new year wave as long as I can! Bring it on! 

New Year, New Me! Just don't blink, or you'll miss it!

My gift will be short-lived

Here's a summary of some of the things that happened in 2022:

January

• We spent New Year's in Phoenix
• I turned 38
• Eva crashed her bike and had to go to the ER
• Scotty went on his first post-COVID brocation to Disneyland

February

• We took Nicky and Daisy to see Hamilton
• Scotty's step-brother passed away in a car accident

March

• Nicky had COVID
• I had herpes
• Daisy competed in Lego League

April

• The kids and I spent spring break in Logan with my friend Lynsie and her kids
• Eva turned 7
• Eva's earrings got stuck in her ears, and she had to have them removed in the ER

May

• Scotty went to Mexico for work
• We got three baby chicks
• Top Gun: Maverick rocked our world!
• Nicky finished a cornhole set as his final project in his woods class
• The girls had their end of year dance concert
• Zoe did a 5k with her school's running club
• Daisy made dance company for the junior high

June

• Daisy "graduated" from elementary school
• My friends and I found a suicide victim in the park
• We went to Saint George with extended family
• Nicky went to Youth Conference at Reid Ranch

July

• We went to see In the Heights for Scotty's birthday
• Scotty turned 41
• Scotty, Daisy, and I went to girls camp

August

• Scotty went to South America for work
• Nicky was on the high school's golf team
• Nicky and Scotty went backpacking in the Uintas with the priests' quorum
• Nicky started 10th grade
• Daisy started 7th grade and went to junior high
• Zoe started 4th grade
• Eva started 2nd grade

September

• Nicky participated in "male cheer" for Homecoming
• Scotty had COVID
• We went to Disney World!
• Nicky got a ping pong table
• Daisy turned 13

October

• I made and sold pumpkin rolls for Halloween and Thanksgiving

November

• Zoe turned 10
• I swapped church callings from YW 1st counselor to YW secretary
• Nicky went on his first date (to Sadie's)
• Nicky was in the high school's production of Cinderella
• We spent Thanksgiving in California

December

• Nicky got his braces off
• Daisy got a part in the jr high’s musical 
• Zoe went on the 4th grade skiing field trip
• Nicky turned 16