a good year.

It was a very good year, 2011.  Here are some highlights:

 engaged!!!

 v.i.p. passes to the US v. Chile.  (my birthday!)

 a perfect Valentines' Day dinner with friends.

heidi and steven engaged!! (look out mom and dad TWO weddings 5 weeks apart!)

engagement photos. (thanks mike c.)

and tons and tons of wedding planning.

mike goes golfing with his buddies.

cute mikes.

we were wed. April 9.

best bridesmaids & groomsmen ever.

 st. lucia honeymoon!!

railroad revival tour: mumford and sons, edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros, old crow medicine show.

heidi and steven's wedding!

AND...

michael's bday.  same day. homemade ice cream cake.

learned how much we love claim jumper for dessert.

lots of setting up the home.

hikes and double dates.

fourth of july in ladera.

a visit to st. george.

wild rivers.  for the last time. ever. it is now flattened to the ground.

mammoth 2011!!  (sorry blake... i guess you could have been in the picture, now that you and emily are engaged.)

pismo gang.

 provo.  sisters. byu football.  

thanksgiving in st. george.  TOO many good pictures to post them all.

sugar and grain free pancakes.  heidi and i are obsessed.

our calling at church- nursery.  mike got this little girl to shine his shoes.

christmas time at the sawdust festival in laguna.

our very own christmas tree.  love.

snow at the grove in la.

balboa love.

christmas card!

emily and blake ENGAGED!!  3 weddings within one years time.

christmas eve and aunt julie's.

christmas morning. 

new years eve.  tennis tournament.  

*This is the longest blog post ever.  I am officially caught up.