2011 in Review Part 1

We have a bit of catching up to do.  2011 had some great moments!  Those can't be forgotten. 

So I lived in Salt Lake City from January-May.  That CAN be forgotten.  I had the worst birthday of my life so I decided something needed to change.  My grandma Bu (Mom lived in Indonesia and "grandma" in Indo is Bu) lives in Provo so I started coming down to her house all the time.  Then my family came to bring my brother Jake to BYU.  It was so relieving to see them.  Summer in Utah with them was so fun!

 There was the U2 360 Tour.  My dad went to see them in the summer of 1988 I believe.  It was amazing.  So classic and Bono and The Edge tore it up!

Then the Nyfelers came to Bu's house.  We ate food and read Newsweek of course

We played at the Shadowbrook pool and did a Slip'n'Slide at Rock Canyon Park

 We took a trip up north to see the Botanical Gardens, the Logan Temple (where Bu and Grandpa Darcy got married 51 years ago) and some friends from Alaska.

Kacy and I have been best cousins for as long as I can remember.  Some of our most fun memories are of making castles in Bu's sandbox and flooding it.  15 years later, we were shopping for swimsuits when we found these matching-but-different dresses at Nordstrom.  We LOVED them but a picture is just as good, right? 

On Todd's birthday, we went to the cemetery to see his grave next to Grandpa Darcy's.  The MDC's were in town and Schipper came too.  We miss them but they are watching us happily :)

 I had an amazing opportunity to go to Oregon for the rest of the Summer and live with the Litchfields.  They were so nice and sooo fun.  It felt like home!  And being back in Eugene was incredible.  The first weekend I was there I went surfing with all the kids I used to know. Joe and Sarah Whipple were my best friends when I was younger.  We played Barbies and acted out Miss Congeniality and went swimming all summer. 

I made a great new friend last summer: Jordan DeGraw.  We met, didn't talk for a month, then started hanging out every night.  We played frisbee, cooked, picked blackberries, long-boarded, watched concerts, went shopping (a lot), and I hate to admit he opened my ears to a new kind of music.  But we always laughed and we left Oregon on the same day.  He to Brazil for 2 years on a mission, and me to my family back in Michigan.  But we still write to each other and it's so fun, writing letters really is a lost art. 

Grace and Claire Litchfield and I always had fun!  We tried on sunglasses at Sunglass Hut and the guy was lovin it.  Store employee turned photographer!