Catch up time...

So much for posting every month. Here is what we've been up to the last year!

Ryann's fettish with socks! She would hold onto anyone's socks anyway she could while crawling around. She'd usually hold them in her mouth, so we made sure to keep our dirty socks picked up! She hit the jackpot when she found her own sock drawer!

Ryann's 1st birthday!

Ryann's first real experience with snow! She wasn't too sure about the cold and lots of layers of clothes!

Emily's 4th birthday! She wanted a heart and unicorn cake. It's kind of hard to see in the picture, but there is a unicorn in the middle of the cake.

Mike took Brooke and Emily fishing. This is the first fish Emily has ever caught!

Emily's swimming lessons. When she first started her lessons, she would barely go in the water. When we finished with her lessons for the summer, she'd put her face in the water. Progress in Emily's hydrophobic world!

Brooke played slow pitch softball this year. She did a great job hitting the ball!

Brooke turned 7-years-old this year and had a beach-themed party with her friends.

Brooke also played soccer during the summer. This is her third year playing soccer and she really enjoys it.

Brooke's first day of second grade!

Brooke just finished playing her first year of basketball. It was a lot of fun to see the improvement made in their short season!

We had a family reunion at my mom and dad's place.
During our reunion, we went to the sand dunes and had lots of fun burying each other and jumping and sliding down the hills.

We made a visit to the state fair. The girls enjoy going to the fair each fall.

Girls in their halloween costumes. Brooke was an angel, Emily was a fairy, and Ryann was a rabbit.

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During the summer we went on a family trip to Colorado. While there...

We stayed at my brother Jaren's house for a couple of days. While there, the girls played in the backyard sprinklers and had a blast. Even little Ryann got in on the fun!

We met up with Mike's brother, Gary, and his family. We went to an animal museum and watched an I-Max movie there. Afterwards, we went to eat at a restaurant that had an indoor waterfall and divers and lots of entertainment!

While visiting Mike's parents, we went to an aligator farm. This is a real baby aligator that Brooke, Emily, and Mike are holding. In the back is Mike's sister, Paula, and his mom.

We went swimming at a hot springs pool in Hooper, Colorado. This was Ryann's first experience with water in a pool. She loved it! Mike could dunk her completely under and she'd come up smiling!

We went on a little hike to Zapata Falls, a waterfall back inside of a cave. There was ice at the bottom of the falls that can stay there all year long!

The girls look forward to visiting the Great National Sand Dunes each time we go and visit Grandpa and Grandma Stoeber. As usual, we built a great sand castle from the wet sand by the river that runs along the bottom of the dunes.

We also went to Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City, Utah, with my sister Jill and her family. We went to the zoo in Idaho Falls, this summer, too. We love zoos! Emily keeps asking when we'll go to the zoo again.

That about wraps up most of the year for us. We hope everyone has had a great year and good luck in the new year!