2011 Year in Review: Jan-Feb

Since I hardly blogged at all in 2011 and I want to get better with the whole blogging bit, I'm going to try to do a Year in Review.  Hopefully we'll get all the way through the year...keep in mind I have a newborn and a house full of boys so the blog is really low on the list at times.

January 2011:

I started off the year rough...I had to say goodbye to my best friend :(  She made her move to Colorado and I was left behind.  I still miss her a ton and I still talk to her everyday.  She is my friend for life!  I can seriously see the tears in our little eyes...that was such a hard day!

Later that month we celebrated Chinese New Year with Aunt Suzy and Kendall and all our cousins.  (Toni, I love your face in this picture!)

Ethan loves Chinese New Year and trying to find the golden fortune cookie.  Unfortunately, he didn't find it...can you tell?

We LOVE Chinese New Year...money and chocolate...what's not to love?!

I had the Mia Maids Advisor ask to have the girls come over and learn how to make bread for their activity. At that time I was teaching the 7 year olds in Primary so it was nice to have the Young Women come over for a change.

They each got to make their own mini loaf and got one to take home. Of course we had some bread to sample before the left. The girls did a great job and I think they really enjoyed it.

February 2011
We started out the month with a huge ice storm and in Texas...this kind of weather shuts the city down! Too bad Dallas was hosting the Super Bowl that weekend! I remember some ice fell off the roof of the Cowboys Stadium and even injured people! We ended up being trapped in the house for a full week! Even Dad couldn't go anywhere!

And since weather like this doesn't come around too often, we are not equipped to play in it. We don't own a sled or snow pants or boots. So we improvise with totes and trash bags...totally red neck!

I totally got cabin fever, but while I was stuck inside I went organizational crazy. I made a list of everything I wanted done and started working room by room and purged everything we didn't need. Then once the ice melted I made a bee line for The Container Store and Ikea to get all my organizational goodies. The nice thing I can say now is that the house is still looking great from all the work that I did back then. Nice! This is just an example, the pantry.