Dec vs. Jan

December Breakfast.....or at least Holiday Breakfast!

January Dinner for Two

I'm thinking it's pretty funny the difference between our December meal and our dinner for tonight in January.  No wonder January kind of drags on....

Searching for pictures

I think this might take longer than I expected.  I have lots and lots of photos!  I hope they good enough quality!  Onward.....

I fell in Love

Moules for Lunch!  On Jan 7, 2013.

Thirty Six years ago.  And every day since then!  Happy Anniversary to us!

Family High/Low 2012

Natalie Portugal

Highs: tori joining our family! And I was very grateful that Bryn and isa have welcomed her with so much love.

Hospital stay covered at 100%

All my visitors: mom, dad, colie, gma. Really loved our trip to the beach. Perfect!

And thanksgiving was fabulous

Noel getting offered jobs without seeking them out. Makes me feel secure in this economy. I'm proud of my husband and glad that others see what I see

Lows: horrible morning sickness

preeclampsia 

unplanned c-section and the 6 week recovery 

Noel traveling so much

Funny how your high and low can kind of be the same thing 

Nicole Herway

‪Low: Paying out-of-state tuition this whole bloomin' year. Bronchitis/asthma.‬

High: Qualifying for in-state tuition my last semester of grad school. Trip to Bellagio with Mom & Dad. Trip to the Dolomites with Mom. Being close to Tori & Levi while they were newborns. Last Christmas at home in Belgium.

Tom Herway

Mostly highs come to mind.  That's got to be a good thing.

Highs for 2012 -

1.  Two new grandchildren (Tori and Levi), who look darling on Skype.  I hope to spend more time with them in person real soon.

2.  Visiting Utah, Texas, California and New Jersey in one grand tour in May and June to make sure the kids and grandkids all are doing well. "Kids" includes son and daughters in law by the way.  I love you all.  Keep up the good work!

3.  Discussing where to retire with Anita.  An ongoing source of revelation and inspiration.

4.  Living with Anita Packer. That should maybe be #1.

5.  Kyle Van Noy in the Poinsettia Bowl.  Mark my words, S.T.  You will tell your grandchildren that you were there for that amazing performance.

6.  Living, working, and traveling in Europe, including seeing a few new places this year.  They are getting really hard to find after 24 years,

7.  When kids come home and our house is full again.  I miss that a lot.

8.  My Church calling. 

Lows -

1.  Going back to work after vacations.  Take it one day at a time.

2.  Mitt losing.  He is an amazing man.  He would have been a great President.   

3.  An ocean separating me from those I love most, except of course Anita.

Happy New Year!

Dan and Lara

Dan and I were talking about the high/low this morning. We can't come up with a respectable low because we have been so immensely blessed with the birth of our precious, healthy, darling baby boy. Mr. Levi is here and he has completed our family. We definitely had lows this year but it's hard to remember them when we hold our sweet baby. A sense of peace has always filled out home after the birth of a child, but this time around feels extra special. I personally think it is because I have experienced a new sense of JOY with the knowledge that I will never have to be pregnant, ever again.

Here's to a Lucky 2013!!

Heidi Herway

Did Seth reply this? We haven't discussed but I'd say one low/high was the combo of getting our stuff stolen and then getting it back again! 

Other highs included having all our family members (minus grandparents) visit Coronado this year, wearing shorts and flip flops til October, watching Taft start and love preschool, Seth hit his halfway through residency mark, Lukie learning to talk, Trick or treating (seriously one of my favorite moments as a parent to date), aaaand.....I think we just had a good year. Minus the three days of post-election depression that overcame us both. ;)

Melanie Herway

Highs: Cherry blossoms in DC, Easter in Brussels, getaway in Venice, rock climbing with Jake, Rehoboth for the Fourth, Disneyland with my whole family...basically getting away from routine life and enjoying time with the people I like most in this world.

Low: Turning 30.  We were really fortunate to have such a good and healthy year with little to complain about

Seth Herway

Highs:

I loved coming home from work every day this year.  I love that my boys are at an age where they are excited to see me and want to wrestle ALL the time.  Like I really love that.

Lots of visitors both family and friends

My new paddleboard

Sunny weather

Riley Nelson ending his BYU career on his back in the endzone after one last pick-6. I enjoyed that more than KVN's heroics.

Lows:

- Working all day every day with people who are so fat that they have a 'disability' and will fund the rest of their lives by living off of everyone else.  Their disability typically is a bad back, bad knees or just being fat.

- Working all day every day with people who have a disability for a thousand other reasons and are living off of everyone else when they are fully capable of doing hundreds of different kinds of jobs.

- Working every day providing tax payer funded health care to border jumpers, people living here illegally etc.etc. knowing that me and my children are going to be paying for it.

-This list could go on but then it was all made much worse when the American people decided to re-elect comrade Obama who has already and is going to continue to exacerbate the problem.

- This was then worsened by having to listen to upper white middle class people tell me we have a duty to these people when they don't understand these people at all other than seeing them on TV shows or from their car windows or kind of having met a couple of them once and/or having the same people tell me that this is not a big issue because we spend a lot more of our money on other things.  PS just because you're mortgage is your biggest expense doesn't mean you don't try to cut down on your grocery bill.

- Realizing one day I'll be all by myself in a cabin in Montana with a shotgun yelling at people to "get off my damn property".

Jacob Herway

High: trips with Melanie - Italy, Poconos, NYC. 

High: discovering the garden state by bike. Riding the CA coast and Emigration canyon back to back. I was very happy to ride again. 

Low: it seems to always be work. Do I really care that much about what I do Monday through Friday? Sweat of thy brow is no fiction. My low point was my  manager not living up to my expectations, on multiple fronts. I'll eat those words one day when I manage...thankfully he was replaced, and 2013 has new possibilities. 

Steve Herway

High:

Falling in Love with Felicia

Low:

Year round school and getting completely bummed

Transportation frustration:  $250 nap at BRU airport

Bus drivers who deserve their bus windows broken

Anita Herway

High:

Tori, Levi, first time to Snowmobile, Dolomites, Berlin, Juicer, Summer visits to see All the family, Thanksgiving in Austin with Mom.  Mitt making Mormons more known and accepted world wide.  Tom.

Low: 

Missing the bus, canceling our ski trip to Italy. 

(PS...Noel, not too late to add your comments....email them to me!)