We're Ba-aack!

Okay, so it's been awhile -- like 5 months and a couple days, but I have tons of good excuses. It's slightly difficult to blog when you have no Internet access! That's right, folks, I have had no Internet for over five months and we are all still breathing -- barely! It was shocking to discover how much we really rely on the Internet. How did we used to get the scores to the Jazz game, movie listings and show times, coupons, lesson ideas, pictures of our adorable nieces and nephews, directions, etc before we had Google? I honestly feel like we have been living in Siberia, but baby, we are BACK!
So how do I plan on updating you all on our fantastically interesting life for so many blog-starved days? I don't. I have just enough sanity left to gift you all with a brief summary and way too many pictures! Enjoy!

It began with leaving Jody in Texas to finish Intel Training, (that would be my remaining 6, 754,932 excuses for not blogging sooner!) rushing home to enroll three kids in school, unpack, completely reorganize our house, and have a couple visits with the fam in the process. Whew!

Oh yeah, soccer season (2 teams!) Kutter's birthday #6, Halloween, potty-training nightmares, homework that is Waaaay beyond me, Young Women's, Scouts, Primary, Book Club, and about a million calls to parents and neighbors to PLEASE HELP ME! (We are not going to even mention the lack of sleep, lunches with the ladies just because, and gallons of Coke consumed during the fall!)

Finally, wrapped up the year with a drive to Utah, flight to Texas (Just ME -- ask Cody and Hayley how much they LOVED watching my kids for a week!) a long drive home, Christmas parties, a funeral (man, do we miss Grandma Great!), a wedding, a baby blessing, unpacking, Christmas, another drive to Utah, Trayson's birthday, New Year's Eve, sledding, and, oops -- did we have homework due when we got back? I'm hoping that someday, somehow, we will make up for some of the sleep that we all lost during that whole process. Unfortunately, Brielle has convinced Daddy that he still has just enough energy left to hit the slopes!