The Arth's: December 2011

2011 was such an awesome year for our little family! I guess I'll do what everyone else in blogger land is doing and run you through a quick recap of our year (even though it wasn't that exciting...really!) There's TONS of pictures. I'm not going to write explanations for them. You are welcome to look through them, or you can scroll to the bottom for my hopes for 2012. :)

Okay, so they are in complete random order, but you get the idea. 2011 is going to be an extremely hard year to beat! I picked this last picture, because this pretty much sums up the best day of 2011 for me. Asher was born and seeing all 3 of my boys together was amazing!

Just like everyone else in the world, I have some goals for 2011. Most of them are typical small goals, but I'm not going to do what I've done every other year. For 2012 all I want is a stronger relationship with both my kiddos (the relationship is great...but there is always room for improvement), I want to continue on the journey of loving myself (it really makes your world different...better!), and last but definitely not least, spend as much time as possible with my husband and best friend Ry! Family is ALL that matters. Without it, we have nothing! I'm looking forward to all the HUGE events 2012 is going to bring!!

We had such an awesome Christmas! We spent Christmas morning at our house opening gifts! I only got a few pictures and I took them with my camcorder...which I got for Christmas (Thanks RY!) and it doesn't take very good pictures. I'll post a video at the bottom of our Christmas morning! Aiden had such a blast! We ate a traditional Danish Breakfast, got the car packed up, the kids packed up, and headed down to Utah County!

Asher with his favorite gift :)

We went to the Swasey home first. It was so fun! Aiden and Asher were surprised by Santa who brought them each a gift!

Aiden got this AWESOME train from Santa and Asher got a fun little walker (I forgot to take pictures...)

Aiden was so excited and so thankful!

He was also spoiled rotten by his Aunt and Uncles!

He got Rango, Cars 2 and an entire BOX full of little legos!

You can see the walker Asher got from Santa in the right corner! We had an awesome dinner and spent the night over there. It was such a great Christmas day!

The next day we went to the Arthur home for a Christmas celebration!

(Can you believe that tongue?! It's not even all the way out here. He can practically pick his nose with that thing. We've even had people comment on the elevator, etc. about his super long, cow-like tongue!)

Aiden got these awesome lego sets from his cousin Jackson!

He LOVED this book from Grandma Jeanne and Grandpa Howard

He got this fun Toy Story game (it resembles his FAVORITE ride at Disney Land! He and Jackson got the same guns! I wish I got a picture of them together!) from Grandma Terry and Grandpa Doug.

Two of the cutest babies ever! Andrew isn't big enough to sit with them, so he's not in the picture. Miss Capri and Mister Ash. Capri is so funny! She'd army crawl over to Ash and still his pacifier! She thought it was a game and did it over and over again. It was really cute!

Elliette LOVED on Ash most the time she was there! She was always giving him kisses and hugs! Such a sweet little girl!

Mister Arth and Ash. It was so much fun! The next day Ry went with all his brothers and went skiing. I don't have any pictures and don't know if anyone got pictures. I got to hang out with a lot of the nieces and nephews while they were gone. It was so much fun! I didn't take any pictures (because I'm a lame Aunt like that) but it seriously was a blast!!

We spent most of Thursday with my family. It's the last Christmas for a few years that my entire family will be together (it's very sad and I don't like talking about it) so we had to get a family picture all together! In the back row from left to right it goes: Sam, Mike, Holly, My dad, My mom, and then my little family in the front. I can't believe how old my siblings are getting!

Sam, Mike, Holly and me.

I was so excited to spend some time with my sister! She lives in Tennessee, so I don't get to see her very often. It was awesome to spend time with all of my siblings!! That evening Holly and I got to go see the newest addition to the Reynolds family. Her name is Eisley and she was born on Christmas day! She is so perfect and so precious! I was thrilled that I was able to see her and hold her for a few minutes!