"2012" - Taio Cruz

So I have this need, this burning desire, that I can't move onto the new stuff in my life until I finish telling all of you about Christmas. Because I sure that you all care to know anyway. Please note that I will add a Christmas Card at the end if you would like to know what the latest, greatest, and bestest things going on in our lives. Be prepared.

Christmas break was pretty awesome and it had many contributing factors.
1. That we were all together as a family and with the new addition of Jackson. Don't worry you'll hear more about him later.
2. The weather was pretty dang awesome. Even in Utah. Even though I wasn't there.
3. We went to California. Pretty much any time we go to California is awesome.
4. WE WENT TO THE BEACH.  And it was GORRRRR-GAS. Seriously people. Now I am considering going to grad school in California...and Hawaii. Now you know.
5. I was just going to start typing that we were all healthy during this trip but that is completely false. Brandon came sick and I spent the whole break sick. Good thing I almost completely forgot about that one.
6. Catan. It just isn't a family gathering without Catan. And dang Mom won twice in one day. And curse Brandon. I totally would have won that last game.
7. Psych. Thank you sisters for introducing that show in my life. So great.
8. My family is pretty much awesome, immediate and extended. Which I know everyone already knows, I just like to say it...often.

Time for pictures!!

 We made a quick stop in Riverside to visit our old house. So we got all of our 5 kids in front of the house. Nostalgia at it's best. We're all so adorable and grown up!

We put our hand prints in the concrete when we laid it at the house so we decided to take a now picture. The guys were lame and already got back in the car.

BEACH!!! This is in December. It felt like June. I wish I was there right now instead of being in my apartment.

Hoover Dam! We walked across the bridge that they have now constructed. We saw all the dam cars, the dam people, the dam water, the dam fish, the dam tourists, the dam rocks...

Two places at once! We are straddling the border of Nevada and Arizona in the AIR!

 Happy 2012 from the Trout's LOL. We are still just being teh most awesome family ever so nothing new there! Rick and Linda have been happily married for 28 years, but of course they've been married for eternity so is there really a need to count?! LOL Rick is still bishop but we use that to our advantage of getting some of the best visitors during Christmas. So much good food! Linda is in Young Women's because who can argue that she is the best leader EVER!! She helps her young women through the physically, emotionally and spiritually hard times. She just loves her gurls so much!! Brandon and Anna have received the greatest gift of life this last year!! (pun intended) Little Jackson is just the cutest baby ever! Seriously so much cuter than any other baby out there. I'm serious. He is so smart and advanced and so much better than all the other babies his age. He's gonna go up to be just as awesome as his parents. Brandon is half way down with law school where he is totally top of his class. No one can compete with the Trout family. Dallin is rocking it away in school. He's getting ready to take the MCAT this summer so he can go away and be an awesome doctor. Lauren is graduating from BYU in April on her birthday! w00t. She's gonna take a little bit off to work before applying to grad school to become a Speech Language Pathologist. (Watch out, so far the oldest Trout kids are becoming a triple threat to this world: Lawyer, Doctor and SLP. Don't mess.) Kaleen is preparing to go to Walt Disney World to compete at NATIONALS on her Varsity Dance team! They are totally gonna kill because they do every year and she's just the most awesome dancer ever. And at the same time she is taking a hard course load because she is just so dang smart and loves a good challenge. She graduates from high school, finally ;), in June. Meghan is just awesome. She is trying to surpass her siblings, literally, seriously she is so flipping tall. She picked up Cross Country and is running her little heart out. She's rocking in school because that's what Trout's do. LOL. So now you know what's going on with us. HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT YEAR!!! XOXOXO
Thumbs up for rock n' roll.