January in a nutshell

January is quickly zooming by for us. Even though this is Tanner's slow time we feel like we have been runniing around like crazy.Mostly because we have been working on packing up the house and making sure we are ready for when we can move. Breckyn keeps us plenty busy all day long with all of her energy. Here are some pictures from the past month.

New Years Day celebrating Karl & Mychelle's birthdays. Tanner loves to show off his juggling skills

This is what happens when daddy dresses her

PLaying at Grandma Vollmer's - She thought it was just her size.

Her sweet smiles always brighten our day :)

Tanner got to go to a Jazz Game this month...lucky guy ;)

New Year-New You

I personally love the New Year. Not because it is a party but because I love the feeling of looking back on all of the memories of the past year. Even looking back on mistakes made and looking forward to the year in front of us. I love being able to make goals(although I need to do better at keeping them) and thinking of ways to improve my life. So...here is to the New Year and the chance we get to take inventory of our lives and make changes for the better. To improve ourselves and to begin the year with a fresh start. I have been thinking a lot about how I want to make the most of every day. I looked up some quotes on the new year. Here are a few of my favorites...

"Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 book. Write a good one." Brad Paisley

"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..." Alfred Tennyson

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Vollmer Family 2012 Year in Review

I personally love the new year. I love the idea of a fresh start. I also love looking over the past years and the memories made, the trials we triumphed over, the love we shared with our family and friends, and the moments that grew us closer to our Father in Heaven. Here is our year in review...

January: Breckyn's blessing day. That was such a special day that Tanner and I will never forget.

February: We traveled to Beautiful Sacrament, CA for Treg and Jen's wedding. We definitely want to visit Sacramento again. It is such a beautiful city.

March: We traveled to Boise for State Cheer competition. I am glad I don't have to do that this year. But it was such a fun experience. We battled Tanner's stomach issue. And one colonoscopy later we found out that he has ulceratice collitis. We are grateful for great doctors and medication that is able to keep it under control as long as he stays stress free for the most part...

April: We celebrated Breckyn's first Easter :)

May: Breckyn made her first trip to St. George with Grandma Dayna, Aunt DeDe, Aunt Heather and cousins Gracie and Riley. Tanner and I celebrated our 3rd Wedding Anniversay! Each Year gets better and better!

June: We enjoyed beautiful summer days and swimming at Indian Springs!

July: Family Reunions GALORE!

August: Grain Harvest! Breckyn loved riding in the combine. We enjoyed watching Bridger's Junior football season.

September: Breckyn took in her first Eastern Idaho State Fair! Potato Harvest - we stayed pretty busy...to say the least...

October: We made an unwanted visit to the ER and Breckyn had to get 3 stitches. (Saddest day of our year!) Breckyn enjoyed her first Halloween dressed up as a little cow.

November: Breckyn's 1st birthday was the highlight of the month! It was a great first year!

December: We made a trip down to the lights at Temple Square and had a wonderful Christmas!

 

Happy New Year! Here is to a great 2013!





Merry Christmas from the Vollmers

We had a wonderful Christmas season. It was full of family and friends and wonderful memories. And of course reflection on our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I am so grateful for this time of year.

Our first event of the season was the Corbridge Christmas party. As you can tell by the picture it was a great time. Each family chose one person to be their "reindeer" Tanner of course volunteered.
We had a great Christmas Eve. We went to Blackfoot for the Polatis Christmas Eve lunch. We enjoyed the nativity scene that is put on each year. We are short on young kids on that side of the family so a few of my cousins who are in high school and new graduates had to stand in :) We then went into Karl and Mychelle's for dinner. We played Apples to Apples, which is always entertaining. We let the grandkids open their gifts and then we ended the night with pie (which was made by Bridger-he is a baker!) and watched Joy to the World. It was a perfect evening! Devonee sent me a text asking us to come to mom and dad's because dad had something for us. We were really tired but he told us it would only take 5 minutes.

To our great surprise...Heather and her family popped out! They fooled us all! I was so happy...I cried!

Santa Claus came to our house! He brought Breckyn the Disney Princess Little People Castle and a new teddy bear.

Playing around Christmas morning before we head to Grandma Dayna's for Breakfast.

Family game of Wackee 6

The best parents I could ever ask for! Love them so much!

The kids enjoyed some water color painting

My mom had my dad be the first one to try the dessert and tell us all that it was perfect-Just like in
A Christmas Carol

I kept forgetting to a picture of Breckyn with her new toys. I finally got it a few days after Christmas. I forgot to tell the funny story of Breckyn on Christmas morning. Tanner went out in the living room to video her. On her way out of her bedroom she grabbed a toy and I took it away from her so she could focus on what Santa brought. Well as a result the whole way down the hall she is crying and yelling at me until we get to the living room. She stopped, smiled and then ran towards the castle :)

At Grandma's house...

Last night Breckyn stayed with Grandma Mychelle and Grandpa Karl while Tanner and I went out to eat. They sent us this picture and I thought it was so funny I had to share. They said she walked around like this for quite a while :)

Like mother, like daughter

I loved baby dolls as a little girl, and so does Breckyn! I didn't know that I could expect this so fast. I was in the store the other day and I sat her down for one minute and she had ran across the isle and found a baby doll. She would not let it go. Luckily it was cheap...so I gave in. When she goes to my mom she plays with my old bitty baby baby doll I had growing up. My mom actually had two so she gave me one to give to Breckyn and she LOVES it. She does not like to put her down and I think it is the sweetest thing!

Tis the Season

The Christmas season is finally upon us and I am loving it! I have my tree and other decorations up. I am playing Christmas music in my house and car any chance I get. All I am missing is some snow. :) We decided to take a quick weekend trip down to Utah and visit Heather and Devonee. We hadn't seen Heather's new home in Orem yet and we just needed a quick vacation.
We drove down Friday afternoon and met Dev after she got off work. We walked through the new City Creek Mall and then we took in the lights and Nativity at Temple Square. We all loved it, especially Tanner. He could not remember ever going there and when we were on our way out he said that we needed to do that every year with our family. I did not disagree :)

Breckyn enjoyed the ride in her new, big girl car seat. She loves to take a book where ever she goes

On Saturday Heather took us to the new Traverse Mountain Outlets and then we back to her house and relaxed.

At abou Tyler and Tanner were super nice and watched the kids while we got to head off for some sister time and it was so much fun. We had a blast in Target and I spent too much money :) and we enjoyed some great laughs and made so many wonderful memories.t 7:30 that night us girls decided we needed to make a trip to Target.

 We had to take a picture with our matching, $8 sweats from Target. We had Tanner take the picture and we weren't quite ready but we laughed so hard at how it turned out. I love my sisters.
We were sad to go but we definitely look forward to the next trip we get to make down there. The kids had so much fun running around together. Can't wait till Christmas!!

These girls love their Aunt DeDe

Tuckered out from all the fun