Time to close up a decade.

Of course there is great hope for 2020, the year of perfect vision.  To finish up 2019, I thought I should record the crazy year of travel we had.  

Jan 3-13  St. George and Las Vegas
      20-30   Zoolakis home in Heber

Feb 2-17  Gilbert with Brent
           26  Moved into the Studio

Mar 2-5  Farmington
       12-15  Wilson chalet in Hobble Creek
       17-23   Monterey CA
        23   Suzanne's for week-end
        28    Hawaii, until April 12

Apr 12  Hamilton apt. SLC
       28  Farmington, until May 5

May 5  return from Farmington  (now is when we discover that nobody has done diddly squat for 6 WEEKS at Heber!)
       16   Idaho Falls
       27   St. George until June 1

June 5-12  Yardley PA
         12-30  Rehoboth Beach DE

July 8-16  Provo at Larry/Robyns and babysit Cora/Jules
July 29  We talked in Suzannes  ward!!!

Aug 4  We moved into the main part of the house
       18-25  Jake, Colie, and Seth all visit with families!!!
        22   BANNER DAY, ALL FINISHED WITH INSIDE HEBER RENOVATIONS!!!
        31   Laie Hawaii until Sept 8

Sept 1-8  Laie
Sept 16- Oct 7  Europe

Oct 9  Farmington for Sheridan wedding
Oct 18-20  Dan family visit
Oct  22-26  Babysit Penny

Nov 3-16  Monterey
Nov 22-23  Dan family

Dec 4-9  Yardley PA with Jake family

Dec 24 to Jan 6  Portugal visit, and Nicole, and Steve, and Seth.  

And now to finish up 2019 with pictures since our Europe trip in the last post.

This is a funny picture of Mom and Suzanne in the storage room at Mom's house.  I spent the morning cleaning it out and arranging everything.  Suzanne and I tag team:  she distracts mom while I made mad dashes to the trash can.  Mom has more than a year supply of toilet paper!  She also thought I had put in new shelves.  Why?  Because they were so hidden with so much stuff she forgot they were even there!

While in Monterey, Natalie flew in from California!  We took bike rides everyday, ate dinner at the 'Bench' in Pebble Beach, and had fun being together kid free!  Nicole had given her the task of telling us about her upcoming divorce from Jed, and Natalie took on that responsibility and did a good job.

We got tickets to see Hamilton!  (The real reason Natalie came to Monterey....so we could see this show in San Francisco)  After all they hype about this show I figured there was no way it could live up to the reputation.  But it did.  Fabulous show!  We had great seats and it was truly a highlight.

Tom and I were able to go see Jake and family for a week in early December.  Jake let us use a companion ticket, so we paid for one and the other flew for free!  He does live in a cool area and it's fun to get into their world of school and activities.  Jake and Mel love to 'show off' the area with the great restaurants, and history, and beauty.  It's always a treat to visit them.

The final addition to the renovations is this marvelous fire pit.    Can't wait to sit around on a spring evening and watch all those gorgeous sunsets.

Snow shoes!  Me and Natalie and Noel hiked the back 5 acres and onto the ridge, then down coyote path back into the neighborhood.  Truly fun, and a great work-out.

The PortuGALS playing in the snow.  First time for Tori to ever see the snow.  Such a magical Christmas to wake up Christmas morning to a blanket of pure white snow.

All the cousins enjoying a very short period of time together sledding and playing in the snow.  I was in Grammie heaven.

Seth and Heidi had a horrible case of the flu on Christmas morning.  Heidi, Penny and Jonah were still suffering so they didn't come to Heber, but Seth and Taft and Luke made the drive up on Saturday, spent ONE night and drove back the next day!  What dedication.  Cute family.

Colie getting her Jules snuggles in.  Lucky Momma.

Cousins enjoying a meal together in the studio.

Look how cute.  The chocolate mustache after s'mores!

S'mores on the deck!  Steve/Felicia and Kent also joined us for a few days, including New Years Eve & Day.  Felicia is really ill with her new baby pregnancy and has to take constant medication to keep from throwing up constantly.  Not easy to grow a human being!  She wouldn't allow a photo of herself.  

I have saved the best photo for the last.  KING OF THE MOUNTAIN.  I guess it's Tori and not Tom, haha!!!