Our 2025 was beautiful. We traveled to Chicago, New York, California, Saint George, and Hawaii.

We watched movies we love, read great books, listened to amazing music, spent time outside, and spent a ton of time together.

Randy passed his CPA, Graham started the DEEP program, Wells tried soccer for the first time and started to read, Clarkson learned to walk and ride a scooter and climb, and Maddy got a new job.

It’s been a crazy wonderful year.

Holy cow what a month! The holiday season FLEW by and we aren’t even sure how it happened.

We went to the Festival of Trees, Candlelight Christmas, enjoyed buying and wrapping presents, listening to Christmas music on our record player, and reading Christmas books at bedtime.

We spent a week in Hawaii which was SO fun. Randy ran his marathon and even though it was SOAKING he did great. We were BEYOND proud. We spent the week at the beach, playing in the waves and the sand, eating delicious food, finding yummy treats, hiking, spending time in the pool and hot tub, and being with friends. It was a dreamy, relaxing week and we loved every second of our island getaway! The boys loved seeing the characters, swimming, eating Japanese food and shave ice, and digging in the sand.

When we got home we packed in more Christmas fun with the Layton Lights, Christmas Eve Brunch at the Grand America, seeing the candy windows, having Christmas Eve Dinner. Christmas Eve was complete when we gave the boys their new pets!! Axolotls!!! We love Lottie and Axel so much already. We opened gifts on Christmas Morning and the boys loved their claw machines and vending machines, stuffed animals, video games, puzzles, crafts, etc. Randy and I loved our towel warmer, golf clubs, jewelry, etc. We played games and relaxed the whole day and had a laid back Christmas which was just what we wanted.

We spent the break at the Layton Lights, at Luminaria with family, having Richards Christmas, a NYE party, and relaxing. We have loved being together as a family during the break and getting some extra time as a family with our trip to Hawaii!