Some Things 2022 Taught Me

Highlights of 2022:

11 year anniversary celebrated

10 Dogman books Kasen read

9 states I visited

8 camping trips

7 Temple Dates

6th Family member conceived

5 Birthdays and birthday cakes

4 Hikes

3 5K races

2 Teeth Tai lost

1 Deer Kyle shot, first time since we've been married!

Kasen got to open his own bank account, he played basketball, tried water skiing and knee boarded all by himself this year.

Tai has grown up so much this year. She had her first dance recital, learned how to ride her bike without training wheels like a boss, she lost her first 2 teeth, started kindergarten and has already been reading like a champ! She insists on trying to read everything. 

Kohen had his first haircut, loves going to nursery at church and found out that he gets to be a big brother!

We're pregnant with our very last baby! I also made it to Texas, got to help my Grandma bottle beets, and made it to 8 of the 10 camping trips we wanted to go on.

Kyle is still with DEU right now and has fallen in love with fly fishing, ice fishing and jiu jitsu.

In 2023 I hope to cut my "want to read" book list in half, potty train Kohen before baby brother gets here, help Kasen prepare for his baptism, run the haunted half 5K in October and start doing family scripture reading before our family prayers, as suggested by Tai.

Some Things 2022 Taught Me:

1. Baking chocolate chip cookies in an air fryer does not work
2. The heating unit in a Muskoka fireplace only lasts 3 years and even though the user manual provides a list of service parts, you cannot order any of them.
3. Tai can do a 300 piece puzzle all by herself
4. Where Dakota's grave is at the Orem Cemetery
5. Waiting 24 hours after throwing up to declare yourself well again isn't enough time anymore, gotta wait 3 days now
6. It costs $60 to surrender a dog to the Humane Society and is critical that the muzzle placed on the animal is both the exact right size AND not placed on them upside down. Also, they don't even use the sedation shot they initially insist on bringing out in the correct dosage either.
7. The Eccles Theater will let you walk in wearing a handgun, no questions asked, but they will stop you if you aren't properly wearing a face mask.
8. The reason visual aids are not allowed in sacrament meeting is because holding up your 20 year old mustache, saved in a plastic baggie, is weird....
9. Kyle prefers cleaning birds to cleaning fish
10. Trees from Arbor Day Nursery in Riverton come with a 5 year warranty! Which means even if your tree has been dead for over 2 years you can still go get a new one.
11. Even if you have been vaccinated for covid, twice, you can still get it. And you can also still get covid even if you aren't the people pulling on strange chewed gum at the Seattle gum wall, while also wearing a face mask.
12. You can park in Portland, with a thin blue line sticker on your car, and it won't get vandalized.
13. Royal Caribbean will not tell you there is too much ice to see Dawes Glacier until like 30 minutes before you are supposed to be seeing it. But they do still have lobster night!
14. Paying $5.29 per gallon of gas is super depressing
15. Apparently 55 degrees is cold enough to cancel swimming lessons
16. How to make homemade bread, bagels and green pancakes without using food coloring.
17. Do not leave a bike trailer out in the sun unless you want all of the seatbelts to turn to literal dust.
18. Stephanie has no concept of how long it actually takes to drive to Provo and back to Lehi in rush hour, or that when I say Lehi park and ride I actually mean the American Fork one...
19. The Biolife plasma center does not check for, or notify you if you become pregnant during the weeks that you've been donating plasma. The OB says not to worry about it though!
20. Zofran would have been awesome to have back during round 1
21. Lab work is not billed under the doctor that actually ordered it and told you where to have it done.
22. How to bottle beets
23. A 2 year old can climb the Cliff Palace ladders at Mesa Verde just fine
24. A 6 day, 2,725 mile roadtrip to Texas can be done for under $500, if you're splitting it with another person. And it can also be miraculously done with 3 kids screen free!
25. If you squeeze some slivers hard enough they will shoot right out.
26. However, Tai's warts take freezing, a box of wart remover bandaids, weeks of apple cider vinegar and freezing again to disappear.
27. Arctic Circle discontinued their sweet potato fries and right now I'm real disappointed about it.
28. What it's like to pee when you sneeze and cough hard enough to throw up
29. It takes exactly 2 years to go through a 25lb. bag of flour, but we can go through 4 gallons of milk in 6 days.
30. Being in a bad enough accident means to have to give up 40 hours of vacation AND also you don't get your yearly pay raise either. Savage
31. It costs $296.76 to process a deer, way to go Jim!
32. The exact spot on the wall by the stairs that is Kohen's favorite part to color on.

2022 was a fantastic year! Bring on 2023

Happy New Year!