Happy New Year! 2012 in review

Happy New Year Everyone!!! I know everyone says this, but I seriously cant believe another year has passed! Time just flies right on by me. We had a great 2012 here in the Flamm house. There were a lot of ups and a couple of downs, but overall, we made a lot of life changes and were very blessed this last year. I only hope that our choices we continue to make, bring us down a good road.

So, to warn you, this is a review of our 2012 and there will surely be lots of pictures of the good and bad. And at the end of this post, I will have a couple of my new years resolutions for 2013. Enjoy!

2012 : In order from Jan-Dec.

Feb: We got a new car

Feb: I turned 25 :)

April: Easter fun

April: Got pregnant then lost it days later

May: My best friend got married!

June: My last day of work -Me and my fav. co teacher

June: My very first concert EVER! Toby Keith, with my good friend

June: Mine and Johns 5 year anniversary and Vegas getaway where we saw 

The Phantom of the Opera, my favorite musical!

July: 4th of July fun!

July: Fire on the mountain behind our house

July: 24th of July parade. The state of Utah is celebrated on July

24th, when the Mormon Pioneers came. Every year we go to a parade.

August: Zoo and water play

August: Got a camera we've been wanting for a while. Learning photography.

Sept: One year being in our new house. Its a work in progress, but we're getting there

2011 and 2012 

Oct.: Trip to California-Beach, Sea World, Universal, Disneyland

Oct: Noah turned 4!

Oct: Isaac broke his arm :(

Oct: Halloween- Noah is the only one who dressed up

Nov: My first time Voting!

Nov: Thanksgiving

Dec: Isaac turned 3!

Dec: John turned 31

Dec: Christmas

Happy New Year!!

Well there was our last year for you! It was a great one. I am hoping to make many more memories this year. In 2013 Im hoping to start a photography business, have more self confidence in myself, and spend more time and make more memories with my family. Thanks for reading! Have a great New Year!

Festival of Trees and SNOW!

Happy Sunday!!! 

Today was a very dreary and snowy day. What a better time to update my blog..

A little over a week ago, I went to Festival of Trees to watch my younger sisters' dance performance and to look at all the pretty trees that were decorated. For those who dont know, Festivial of Trees is an event here in Utah that benefits Primary Childrens Medical Center. There are more than 700 decorated Christmas trees, Entertainment, Santa, Gingerbread houses, Wreaths, lots to buy and do and EVERY penny raised goes to help children at Primary Childrens Medical Center. I took a few pictures of some of the different kinds of trees and decorations they had there. 

And... Going back to speaking of snow ;) I hate the snow and the cold and everything that goes with it.. One day I will move away from snowy winters. But for now, I try to enjoy the beauty of it. 

After the storm 

Have a good Day!!

Thanksgiving + Fun

Thanksgiving... I really enjoy Thanksgiving. Me and my husband, John, usually attend two family dinners. What's nice is both of our family's do it a little different, so we get two different experiences which is why we love going to both.

Our first dinner is at my husbands parents house. They live a little over an hour away from us, so every excuse to go see them is great. They start their Thanksgiving at around 1:00, so I guess its more a lunch than a dinner. We were missing a couple of family members, but it was still very nice.

We didn't get to spend as much time with them as we would've liked because John got called to work. But after spending time there and when the work was done, we headed to my family's dinner. My family lives an hour away from Johns parents and about 45 min. from us. So it was a lot of driving that day, which we dont mind.

This Thanksgiving was very exciting. One of my Brothers in law had been in Canada for quite a few months and was able to come home a few weeks ago and be here for Thanksgiving. Another Brother in law of mine has been in Basic training for the Military for a few months and surprised everyone, even his wife, and came home for Thanksgiving. It was a great night to have everyone in the family home. We were definitely thankful.    

My brother in law even showed us some fun ways to workout in a group. Although im sure its not as fun having to do it often in the Military. Here's a video of us trying it out.



We also were able to get some great family photos. Here's just one of us having a good 'ol time.

Well that was pretty much my Thanksgiving day! Thanks for reading :)

Family Vacation Part 2

In early October, my family took a trip to California. My last post was the first two days of our trip, I now have the third day done. This video is one of our days at Disneyland where we ride a few rides, enjoy trick or treating, dancing, parades and fireworks at Mickey's Halloween Party.. Please watch and enjoy :)



Also if you missed the first part, that video is in the post before this one, or the link is in the second videos description.

Our family vacation Part 1

Sorry to those who have already seen this video on my Facebook. I just wanted to get it on my blog

I've been working on our family vacation videos. It takes a lot of time to get one done because of having to watch each video we took, put it into my video editor, put it into the parts I like but have to get it exactly right in a good spot, and trying to fit some music and noise to it. Its very time consuming, but its fun and I love doing it. There is so much video and pictures we took during our trip, so I wanted to put it in a video for people to get to see a little of the fun we had. 

This first video was our road trip out from Northern Utah to San Diego California. It takes all day to drive, so we left at a very early time (as seen in video) Then we go to the beach. In the video, it seems we have been in the car straight till the beach, but before we stopped at the beach, we had relaxed in our hotel for a couple of hours. My little guy Isaac was in such a bad mood, we didnt stay long. The next morning we go back to the beach for a little bit and then head to Sea World. 

So please enjoy our first video. The second part is almost done and coming soon. 

Fun in the snow!

This weekend we got quite a bit of snow at our house. It was such a beautiful day out today, so we decided to go out and play in the snow a little bit. I think me and John had more fun than the kids did though. Isaac didn't even want to go outside, and Noah didn't stay out long. But we had fun throwing snowballs, building a snowman that kept falling apart, building an Igloo that Noah had fun tearing down, and making snow angels.

Mallissa throwing snowballs

 

John jumping into the snow

Noah jumping through the Igloo

Mallissa making a snow angel

Pretty bird in our tree

Happy Sunday! :)