Happy New Year!

I know yesterday was new years but we were just so focused on Kyla's birthday that now I have time to focus and reflect on this past year and some new goals and resolutions I have set for myself.  Our stake had a New Years Eve party that was pretty eventful so we played there for most of the night.  There was dancing, giant twister, wii games, board games, karaoke, and lots of pizza and food!  Kyla LOVED the dancing part of it and she is quite the cute little dancer!  We stayed in there most of the night.  We ended up coming home around 11:15 and had Kyla in bed by 11:30pm because she was just so out of it and exausted that we felt bad keeping her up any longer...especially with her birthday the next day.  We wanted her to enjoy it and not be too cranky. :)  We didn't take any pictures with our camera but we took some on our new phones we just got!  So pictures of New Years Eve will have to wait.  For now, here's a picture of our new phones we got for free!  They're the coolest phones WE'VE ever had (yeah, it's not the iphone..so what?!) so we're pretty excited about that.

It's a slider phone, really shiney and the very first phone that has a built in wireless bluetooth with the phone!  It's way cool and way fun.  Since our contract was ending soon we got new phones with a renewal of our contract...sweet!

Here's a recap of our 2008 Year:

January--Kyla had her 1st birthday and Hyrum started a new semester.  He was extremely busy but worked hard and finished the semester off (in April) really well!  The Rexburg Temple open house was also in January and Hyrum and I both got to volunteer to help with a bunch of things.  It was very memorable.

February--We got our new digital piano basically for free!  We also had the Rexburg Temple Dedication and were privledged to be able to be seated inside the temple for the dedication.

March--We had our 3rd year anniversary, Kyla was officially weaned from nursing and slept through the whole night...finally, and signed a contract to move into a bigger apartment which are the ones we are in now.

April--We moved and Hyrum got Mario Kart Wii for ending the semester so well!

May--Hyrum was looking for a job and started a computer business.

June--Hyrum and I left Kyla with Grandma and Grandpa Denney for a night and went to Lagoon in Utah!  We were enjoying the warm weather, went to an air show, bowling, and Hyrum and I spent our first week apart.  It was so hard!  But it was fun because Kyla and I got to fly down to Washington to spend time with my family and see my youngest brother graduate from High School.  Hyrum found an amazing computer programming job which was an answer to our prayers.

July--Had a crazy adventure river tubing, went to Downata Hot Springs, got a cute new swimsuit, and celebrated Kyla's 1/2 birthday.  Decided it would be best if Hyrum kept working full time through fall semester instead of going to school to save up some money.

August--My brother Brian returned home from his mission, Kyla got her first hair trim, went to a family reunion camping trip, went to a street festival and the zoo.

September--Hyrum's sister, Heidi had her cute little boy, went to Utah with family and went to a BYU game and saw my friends! We also found out we were pregnant and Kyla was showing signs of potty training!

October--My brother Brian came up to visit us and met Kyla for the first time and we watched General Conference.  Also, one of my best friends came home from her mission. Kyla was a Lion for Halloween and had lots of fun trick or treating...we were punk rockers and scared everyone else off their rockers...haha!

November--Hyrum and I both had our birthday's and spent them well.  My Dad came to visit for Thanksgiving and had a ton of family events.  We got a real Christmas tree and set things up for Christmas.

December--I turned 20 weeks pregnant and 1/2 way done!  Finished all our Christmas shopping, Kyla saw Santa and was so excited for Christmas, some of my bestest friends came up to visit, we got new used couches, we got FEET of snow and played in it, went sledding, built snowmen, and had an amazing Christmas and New Years!

There ya go everyone...a recap of our 2008.  We can't wait to see what happens in 2009!  Happy New Year!