A busy, fun, hard, and adventurous year

Our big vacation was a visit to San Diego to celebrate my parents' 50th

Our clan has survived another year and we'd like to give you a short summary.  Consistent with past years, we stayed busy with work, scouting, karate, reading, board games, video games, and church activity.  But we also had several new developments in 2011 that combined to suck up every last minute of our collective free time. Collin entered high school and began seminary.  Cora became a curious toddler.  We finished two big home improvement projects.  Nathan got into adventure cycling. Sydney and Owen took after-school Spanish.  Randy played tennis and became a deacon.  To top it off, Robyn signed us up for a summer exchange student.  Nils came to us from Germany for five fun and informative weeks.

Nathan remains with Intel and Robyn is a full time mom.  Our kids Collin, Randy, Owen, Sydney, and Cora are  14, 12, 9, 7, and 2 respectively.  We feel blessed to have this group of children.  They each bring something different to the family.  Dad has to fight dirty rooms and mom has to fight homework procrastination, but for the most part they are good kids.  These photos show a little of what we've been doing.

Randy (right) was ordained a deacon

Owen wins pinewood derby

Sydney learns to ride a bike

Brian, Sherman, Nathan, Randy, Collin, Nils, and Robyn (behind camera) ride the Jordan River Trail 

Nathan and Collin at Fort Laramie Historic Site during a 100 mile cycling trip

Nathan at Ayers Natural Bridge, WY after a solo cycling trip

Cora, so cute we had to include it.

The funniest photo of 2011

This is intended to be short and sweet.  But if you want to know more, you can indulge our vanity by viewing a more detailed picture story of our year in this album.