2008: Year in Review

Wow, 2009 has already been going for a while and we haven't blogged yet. We have been having way too much fun with Mommy and Daddy this last little while, we have been forgetting to keep things updated. We decided that we should start again by reviewing over the year 2008. So many great things and fun adventures filled this last year. Sorry Ryker that some of these adventures you didn't get to really enjoy since you spent most of the year baking in Mommy's belly.

So here we go-

January we started off by traveling to both Grandparents house to see the new Rexburg LDS temple. It was so beautiful. We also went sledding and skiing with my aunt and uncle who live close to my Grandparents. I love traveling. I also started off the year by standing by myself (which is totally old stuff now, but made Mommy and Daddy cry when it happened).

February is the month we celebrate the Heart. Lots of big anniversaries for our family. Mommy and Daddy celebrated their 5th wedding anniversary and thanks to Tammy and Toby and Dan and Angela, Daddy was able to give Mommy lots of surprises. We also celebrated one year from my last heart surgery, when all the love and prayers from family and friends and even people we don't know fixed my broken heart.

March I learned the joy of Easter and the yummy things the Easter Bunny brings.

April I played my first April's Fools joke on the world. I announced to the whole world I was no longer an only child and that I was going to have a sibling.

May was a month of one really big adventure. I had my first really big road trip to go see my uncle race a 24 hour mountain bike race and then watch my youngest aunt graduate from High School. I was expecting something more musical after seeing the movie, but I guess real life is like that.

June was one adventure after another. I went on two more road trips. One was to the McCracken family reunion which was sooooooo fun. All the cousins together causing all sorts of chaos and confusion. The second to a vacation home where we met up with Landon, Shellie, Ella, and Tino. Ella taught me lots of girly things like how to be fancy. In between adventures though, Mommy had one scary night she started having lots of contractions and had to go to labor and delivery and check on our little baby. And then later that month we found out my little sibling was going to be my little Ryker.

July we went on another exciting adventure. We went to the Thornton family reunion. Again lots of cousins to cause all sorts of chaos and confusion. It was fabulous.

August was ever so important because I turned 2 years old. What a great Birthday! But that is not all, I gave up the Num Num. I had been biting the ends off since my teeth were coming in with a vengeance so Mommy and Daddy told me that if I kept biting the ends off they would just throw them away. I couldn't help myself and so away went the Num Num, and I haven't looked back.

September was a crazy, busy, worrying month. Daddy started school again, the last year of Grad School. But then Mommy ended up on bedrest. Ryker decided that we were obviously having too much fun with all our adventures and he couldn't wait any longer to be apart of it all. So on the couch Mommy went with her glass of Gatorade and yucky medicine (but the best part is Grandma came and stayed with us so that Mommy wouldn't have to worry about taking care of me-it was great).

October was a very busy month. It started with excitement from me of course. I figured out that it was pretty cool to walk by myself with my walker out on the driveway. Ryker came into the world early one morning and began adding lots of excitement of his own. Then we had Halloween to end it all, and of course that is super fun! But woh, what a month.

November was month full of sleepless nights and lots of adjusting for Mommy and Daddy. But for us there were lots of first words and first steps.

December was just as exciting as the rest of the year. Mostly spent just playing and enjoying being a family.

What a year it was, full of adventures and fun.