Cheers to 2011!!

• Lots of studying - This is what happens when you are sick and tired of studying! We get a little crazy
  

• Dave finished with his undergraduate from Utah State

Dave, Rob (Masters) and Shawn
We missed all Dave's other friends in Engineering

Dave with his senior project - Gretchen - a human powered airplane fuselage (the body of the plane)

• Made tons of friends in Logan
  
• I had great success working at InTech Collegiate High School - 15 of 18 AP Calculus students with 5's on the AP test.
• Dave started at University of Utah for his Masters in Mechanical Engineering
• Dave worked at U of U as a TA for a few months and then received a job at Hill Air Force Base
  
• I am working at Mt. Ogden Jr. High
  
• We went on some fantastic vacations: Maui, Macks Inn, Bear Lake
• We have tried to start our family
• We have done insemination with no success
• Started the adoption process - finalized this month and now the wait time!
• Serving in the nursery and LOVE it - Dave will be an awesome daddy!

• Lots of babies born! A nephew - Cannon the end of December (28, 2010 almost 2011 so it counts right?!) and two nieces -Hadley in March and Lucy in September
  
• Moved to Kaysville in July
• Upgrading our hand-me-downs
• Our new bed is heavenly
• New reclining couches that are fern in color
• New 40" LED TV which has a great picture
• SLR camera - amazing!

Some crazy pictures playing around with our new camera
I love his long eye lashes. He is so cute!

Welcome 2012!!
We are excited to see what is to come this year!

Thanksgiving 2011

Thanksgiving is always a blast. This year we had dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Kirby's house. It is amazing how many people, chairs, and tables that we can fit in the house. It just shows that there is a lot of love in this family. Luckily the weather has been a warm fall so we were able to go out and play.

Bailey and Sara

Ellie and Parker

Kenzie and Dave
I could never pin down Tanner and no pictures of Hadley or Cannon

After playing hard at the Kirby's we went to the Law side and had some fun with the our new SLR! Love it!

My new niece - Lucy 3 months old



Jennie came down for Thanksgiving. Dave and I posing.



Grandma and Grandpa Glover and Darrell had Thanksgiving dinner with the family.



Sisters and the girls! We really did not plan to match. We are just that amazing!

Dave is going to be such a great daddy! I can not wait!



Law Family 2011
We have to take a thousand pictures for every one good one. I love my family!

Blessings of Davis County

The day after I completed summer school at InTech Collegiate High School, I had a job interview at Mt. Ogden Jr. High. We had an adoption appointment that morning at 9 am and my interview at 11 am. I arrived late to the interview and could not get a hold of anyone to let them know. Great first impression. The interview went great. I got real emotional a few times when I started to talk about my experiences at InTech. I did not realize how much I was going to miss InTech. After the interview I received a phone call 30 minuets after we had left offering me the position. I accepted the position just before going to Maui. I am teaching Common Core 9th grade (Algebra 1/Geometry), Geometry, and Algebra 2. It has been a challenge.

After returning home from Maui we were preparing to go to Macks Inn and Dave was doing his normal search for jobs. The night before we left he came across a intern job posting for the Department of Defense at Hill Air Force Base. He applied and forgot about it. In September Dave received an email stating that he was a possible candidate for a engineering position. Shortly after he received a job offer with no interview. Dave already had a job working at a Teacher Assistant at the U of U so he worked two jobs for a week or two starting at Hill the end of October. Hill is not Dave's dream job but he is getting the hang of it.

It is amazing to look back on the past few months to watch the Lord's hand in our life. He guides us and directs us in very unique ways. I am very grateful for His love.

Road to Hana

One of our favorite days in Maui started before sunrise and ended really late. We traveled the Road to Hana. The Road to Hana is a 68 mile stretch of road averaging 25 mph. It would take about 2.5 hours to drive with no stops but of course we had to stop for a lot of the beauties of Maui. It was fantastic! The highway has approximately 620 switch backs and is very narrow passing over 59 bridges, 46 of which are only one-lane bridges. You could see waterfalls from the road.

Three Little Bears

You can see this from the road. Posted everywhere were signs saying that
we were not to stop and take pictures. Luckily there was no one, as far as we
could see with all the switch backs, near us.

This was our first little adventure. We took a small little trail and found waterfall #1. It started our day out right.

The trees here are amazing! All I wanted to do to the colorful tree was feel it. I thought that they would be silky smooth. They were still sort of rough. There are trees like the one below everywhere. They are huge with "vines" or roots going everywhere.

Black Sand Beach

The farm ground.

At the end of the Hana Highway is the "seven Sacred Pools". It was amazing!
People would jump off the cliffs into the water. It was fun to watch.

Huge trees and thick bamboo. It got really dark in the bamboo when we were coming home. When it was raining, we were never touch because of the think bamboo. The whistling of the bamboo was great.

Some waterfalls along the way.

The most exciting part of the adventure was our hike to the beautiful 400 feet Waimoku Falls. We started on our hike a little late and was afraid that we would not make it back to the car before dark but we went any way. And boy was it worth it. I screamed like a little girl. What an amazing day!