Goodbye 2011...

If you know me, then you know I love 11's. I have for as long as I can remember...I just have a weird thing with the number 11. So as we say goodbye to 2011, and hello to 2012...here are a few things that I will remember most about our 2011:

• Ashton turned 6 on the 6th of January!
• Lars turned 36 on the 24th
• We celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary on th 26th of February...
• Gunnar turned 3 on March 28th!
• I got to take a very fun memorable trip to California to visit my cousin Neil in April.
• Ashton lost his first 2 teeth that month too!
• May...oh May that was when things went downhill when Lars tore his achilles tendon.
• Surgery, crutches, a walker, lots of down time for Lars in May, June and July...it was hard to put it mildly.
• When he was still on crutches we bought our new boat...(that cheered him up a bit:)
• I turned the big 35 on July 28th!
• Then during physical therapy in August, 3 months out from his first surgery...it was devastating when Lars re-tore his tendon. It was his biggest fear and it happened. We couldn't believe we were starting all over again.
• Crazy, but with it re-torn we still went on our planned river trip and had a blast!
• Then when we got back...another surgery...this time with a specialist in Salt Lake.
• Months and months of recovery to start all over. Those were some hard months for all of us.
• A couple of room re-do's :) Our bedroom and Gunnar's fun Monster room.
• Ashton started 1st Grade!
• Gunnar started preschool and totally surprised me by going willingly, not crying at all and loving it!
• Halloween is always memorable...this year with Gunnar as a boxer and Ashton a Clone Trooper :)
• I really figured out my camera and continued to learn more about photography and took lots of friends' family pictures!
• We had a wonderful holiday season spent with family and once again counted our blessings :)
• One thing I will definitely remember is Lars having to spend so much time doing exercises for his leg...he is still doing them when he comes home for lunch and when he gets home at night. It will be weird when he doesn't have to do them in all of his free time!
• And I will remember our boys at these fun ages. All of the funny, cute things they do everyday! And well the not so funny stuff too. I say it all the time, but I love this time in my life with them and am so grateful to have them :)

Overall 2011 was a great year. Even though we didn't get to do a big family vacation, we still did lots of fun weekend getaways and even continued on with our end of the summer Bear Lake weekend even though it was only 10 days after Lars' second surgery!!
We stayed home on New Year's Eve and played games with the boys...Twister and a fun new game Ashton got for Christmas called Shut the Box. Ashton made it till 11:30! Gunnar till 10:30 :)

Now here's to 2012!