2007 in a Nutshell

Since I did not do a Christmas newsletter this year, I have summed the year up for you here:
2007 was a great year! The early winter months were filled with sledding trips and building snowmen. Kate tried to keep up with her sister in every way. We went on field trips with the neighborhood friends to the planetarium and the children’s museum at the Gateway. Kate started eating solids with vigor. She can’t seem to ever get enough! In April we were able to spend a week in St. George with the Jacobs. We swam, played on the playground and sandbox, drove to Las Vegas, and had some great family time. In June we celebrated Kate’s first birthday and Kiara played on her first ever soccer team. On Friday, June 22, Luis and Alicia were sealed in the Mount Timpanogos temple and had a reception at Le Jardin in Sandy. The first part of July we were in Canada for a week. We were able to do a lot of hikes in Waterton National Park and the girls got to ride horses with their daddy. Over Pioneer Day we went camping up Little Cottonwood Canyon at Tanners Flat. In August Kiara started ballet and neighborhood preschool, Dereck and Adrienne went on a weekend trip to San Diego, Dereck started the Executive MBA program at the University of Utah, we had a Wise/Williams reunion at Heber Valley, and Kate learned how to walk! In September we went to the Utah State Fair and went down the Giant Yellow Slide. In October Grandpa Randy came to visit and we celebrated his birthday. In November over Thanksgiving we stayed at a beach house in Ventura for a week and went to Disneyland and Cousin Kristy’s wedding in Laguna Beach. In December Kiara had her first dance recital and we had a wonderful Christmas. Kiara got her first bike with training wheels.