Welcome the New Year 2011

It's hard to believe that 2010 has come and gone.  Where did that time go?  I thought I would put some of the highlights of 2010 that happened to our family down.  January 2010, Tyler got his long awaited mission call to serve in the Ohio,Cleveland Spanish speaking mission.  He was so excited to be able to learn a language.  Now he thinks that his mom and dad need to learn Spanish.  I've told him that it's to hard for old people to learn a language.  February 2010, all our loans were paid off!  Boy did that feel so good.  I don't want to take another loan out for sometime.  Then later that month, we went to Colorado with Grandma Ruth, Tyler and Tiffany to see Tim and Koren and the boys and go skiing before Tyler left on his mission.  They took us to Loveland Ski resort and boy did we have a blast.  We even came home without any broken limbs!  That was really a miracle in my eyes.  March 2010, we went as a family to Disneyland one last time with Tyler and Alicia's family joined us there.  It was their first time ever and they loved it.  We really had a wonderful time and Tiffany and Tyler really had a great time.  They will really miss each other.  April 2010, Tyler left for the MTC on April 7th.  It was a sad and happy day for me.  We had a last family get-together the night before, went to Temple Square the day Tyler entered the MTC and dropped him off "curbside" and said our good-byes.  I won't lie, it was hard leaving him, but Tyler was excited for his new adventure for the next two years.  May 2010, Dale and I were getting our stuff ready for Trek in July.  We were walking to get conditioned for the trip and making pioneer attire that we would be wearing.  We were picked to be a Ma and Pa in our ward and would be attending the Stake Trek.  June 2010 was one of the most exciting events for our family.  We became Grandparents for the first time.  Kadence Knowlton was born: 5 pounds 15 ounces, 19 inches long.  She was a month early, but is doing really well and has blue eyes and red hair.  It is so much fun being a grandparent.  Kadence has brought so much joy to our family.  July 2010, Trek finally came.  We left for three days with the youth of our Stake and walked the paths where Dale's ancestors had walked on.  We will remember this experience for some time and it was life changing for us.  August 2010, I helped out Valerie by tending Kadence each week on Monday's while Valerie went back to work.  It was so much fun seeing her change.  They grow up so fast.  September 2010, I got Dale to attend a Broadway play.  We went to the "Lion King" at the Capitol Theater in SLC.  Tiffany and my parents, along with my  sister Adele and her daughter Lexi went with us.  It was a fun family outing.  I think Dale enjoyed it.
October and November 2010, was the busiest months for our gravel business.  Dale had hundreds of orders to fill and deliver.  I guess this is a blessing of having a missionary son out.  Thanksgiving was also fun spending time with family and eating good, good food.  December 2010, was exciting, we were told by Jason and Alicia that we will be getting a grand-baby in June of 2011.  What a neat present that will be to be grandparents again.  Then on Christmas day, Tyler called us and that was the best present ever this year for Christmas!  He sounded so happy and he was really loving what he was doing.  It was different not having him home this year, but I'm so happy that he is loving serving his Father in Heaven.  But the biggest event in December is celebrating our Savior's birth.  I love this time of year.  It seems the the world has a little bit of peace on it during December and people are nicer to one another.  It was fun to look back at 2010.  I'm hoping that 2011 is filled with fun and memories can be made.