Gotta Get My Act Together

Okay, I am way behind.  I have plenty of things to write about and photos to post, but I don't have a stretch of time to give to this blog.  It was enough that I managed a little time to go find a new layout to replace my Christmas themed layout.  I messed up a bunch and took too long to edit and such that I gave up doing more than that.  I put the blog aside and have truly forgotten about it.  I will post more soon.  I am scheduling in some time to actually sit and do this.  I'm not one that can just sit down and post for a few minutes and then log off.  I do the full update and that takes awhile.  Anyway..........Soon, I promise. 

p.s. I never did post Sarah's school picture and her class picture here.  It was done in November and I included it in my Christmas e-letter, but did not post it to the blog by itself.  My Sarah is 4 1/2 and will be 5 in June!   I am not liking it one bit!

2010 Christmas Letter

Thanksgiving 2010

We spent Thanksgiving Day at Grandpa and Grandma Wright's house.  This was the first Thanksgiving in 20 years that I have had Thanksgiving with all of my siblings and parents together!  Matt had to work, as IM-Flash doesn't shut down their robotics; not even for a holiday.  He arrived later in the evening and had dessert and turkey sandwiches with the family.  I didn't get too many photos.  :-(   The excitement of the day got away with us.  (I am hoping the family can share some of their good ones!)  Here are the ones I did get.  I hope my dad doesn't mind the photo of him posing with the pilgrim bonnet on.  Someone must have forced him to do it against his will.  Sarah loved being with her cousins for a holiday for the first time in her little 4 year old life. 

The Cousins Having A Meal Together

We gathered at Grandma and Grandpa Wrights' house the day after Halloween for a meal and fun activities. The cousins sat together at the same table. These are all of Sarah's cousins on the Wrights' side.

Visiting The Roomies!

Hayley Olsen Smith and Katie Riddle Richards were my roommates at Ricks College (BYU Idaho now) 19 years ago!!! I hadn't seen Katie in 9 years and Hayley in 16 years! Katie was traveling through on vacation, so Hayley decided it would be great for us to get together at her house in Heber City, since this would be a great opportunity with the three of us in Utah at the same time. We feel sad that Melissa Gadberry Schmeider, our other close friend and roommate, couldn't join in on the reunion. We got together the second weekend of October 2010 for one evening, to accomodate Katie's travel schedule.

We were so happy to see each other that we shed some tears! We had a great time having dinner and caught up on old times. We laughed and giggled until almost midnight, the kiddos bouncing off the ceiling. (Yes, we are bad parents, but Katie had to leave for the airport at 4 am for her flight back to North Carolina, so we had a hard time leaving each other.) The husbands were amazed at how many stories and crazy times we had back then. They were amused by our laughter, I think! Sarah got along perfectly with Hayley's three girls. Sarah and Linzey were SO cute together and were "best friends" before the night was over. Linzey is just a couple of months older than Sarah. We look forward to getting together with them again for a playdate when the moms can fit it in to our busy schedules and travel the 50 minutes to each other.

National Radio Astronomy Observatory- Very Large Array

We took a detour to Soccoro, NM, on our drive to Utah. This was quite a detour. It took us about an hour off of the freeway to drive to the VLA in the middle of nowhere! Truly, it was the middle of nowhere! It has to be, of course. Matt was in heaven and nearly bought the whole store of its souvenirs! We will never go back there and will never be in the gift shop again, so we splurged and each got a T-shirt and Matt got a hat and a science toy for Sarah. If you aren't familiar with the VLA, you will be when I say "Jodie Foster had a scene here in the movie 'Contact', based on Carl Sagan's book."

Southern Utah Drive

This is Wilson's Arch in Southern Utah. When we were driving from NM to UT, we couldn't believe how beautiful our drive was! Amazing! It was gorgeous all the way up from the mesas of NM, to the red rock/arches/formations of Southern UT. We just had to stop for this photo, even if we were just passing through. We will be making a trip down south to see the Nat'l Parks someday, now that we live in Utah. Driving through was not enough!