T Minus a few hours before 2020 is over with and a new year begins… and thousands of people are waiting for a new year to start!
I’ve covered my bases on the reason why I’m thankful for this year, which you can read about it here, and I know that sounds really bad to be thankful when such horrible things have happened. Of course i’m NOT thankful that hundreds of thousands of people died because of Covid, it truly does sadden me that we are still fighting this battle, but I am mainly thankful for the time my kids have had with us. They may not appreciate it right now, but as they get older they will appreciate the time they had with us during this time.
Anyways… enough about that. I wanted this post to recap all of what we did this year… all from doing projects in the Mosley Casa to our new off-road adventures! So many new things that we did, that I will never forget.
January
All from going to the snow
to hosting our first family gathering at the Mosley Casa
February
A month were the adventures began. We purchased my husband dream truck and took it out for our first adventure to Dumont Dunes!
Then hosted a Valentine’s Day brunch at the house
The went off-roading
And ended the month with starting to decorate Melia’s room, which is a modern galaxy theme
March
We started the month off with another off-road adventure to the Colosseum Mine
To another off-road adventure to the red rocks in Summerlin NV (no not Red Rock Canyon)
Then driving to Pahrump, NV to turn on a road which led us to Death Valley (completely not planned)
To chaos happening in the world, and to all being quarantined in our house and having to cancel Melia’s 9th birthday party, which led to a surprise 6ft apart birthday singout!
And ending the month with a visit to the Las Vegas strip and seeing it completely dark, which was the saddest thing ever! My city went dark!
April
My husband purchased a toy for me! My first quad!
Took the quad out for the first time in the off-road trail behind our house! SO fun!
Starting a major project in the Mosley Casa… doing our backyard…. BY OURSELVES!
Bobby bought himself his quad.. so now we have 2! Of course we took both quads out at the trails behind our house again!
To celebrating Easter at home with no family
Still doing distance learning from home… this time in a fresh new backyard!
Our first s’mores night at the Mosley Casa
And ending the month at the Apex Dunes again
May
Got a new quad for Melia, so we took the quads out to a new spot… Armagosa Dunes! Such a fun new place.. which is only about 1 1/2 hour away from home!
Traveled to Gunlock State Park in St. George, Utah. Went swimming in the falls and had a bbq there with the family. It was such a fun time! Definitely will be coming back here again!
Celebrated Avery’s birthday and then had the cousins come over for s’mores!
Day trip to Laughlin, NV- we wanted to see how their “strip” was.. and it was dead, but it was such a fun relaxing trip!
The first time in month that we finally were able to eat at a restaurant. Ended up having sushi with the girls!
Hosted our first of many backyard movie nights!!!
Celebrated my nieces collage graduation with close family.
Did our first overnight little vacation to Hurricane, Utah. We ended up spending Memorial Day at the Sand Hollow Lake.. which was fun, but ended up as a horrible experience. Melia caught swimmer itch!
June
Had a birthday dinner for Bobby for his 34th birthday then did a backyard movie night
Went on an off-road adventure near Pahrump, NV
Visited Little Jamaica in Arizona/Utah border to celebrate Bobby and I’s 5th year wedding anniversary
Had a birthday dinner at my house
Completed Melia’s room!
July
Did Avery’s sponge wall accent, which I love!!
Hosted 4th of July at our house
Completed Avery’s bedroom
Took a day trip to Duck Creek, Utah
And ended the month with camping at Navajo Lake, Utah.. which is our annual tradition and then also visited Bryce Canyon again and did a beautiful hike!
August
Went to California to visit my Aunt who is our dentist for a dental check up
The most craziest off-road trail we’ve done yet with a group of other off-road truckers! We went to Toquerville Falls in Utah!
To the girls starting a brand new school- distance learning
September
Due to school, we haven’t been doing much, but we did visit California again for another dentist appointment, and then ate lunch at Rockin Baja Lobster
A hike with the family at Calico Basin- Red Rock Conservation Area
October
Backyard movie night with hotdogs/chips
First visit of the Fall Season to use our quads at Armagosa.. which led to getting stuck!
To decorating our home for our first year being here for Halloween
Gilcrease Orchard for our annual pumpkin picking
Hosted our first pumpkin carving party at the house
Celebrated Halloween with the family
November
Finally trying to normalize the new normal and took the girls to the Discovery Museum
Visited Area 15
Had our first Thanksgiving with just the 4 of us at the Mosley Casa
Then celebrated Thanksgiving with all the family at my parents house
December
Pictures with Santa (distanced of course) at Town Square
Visited Christmas Tree Pass where we decorated a tree with Christmas ornaments. This is now a new yearly tradition
Celebrating my newphew’s 4th birthday
Celebrating Christmas Eve at the parents house
To celebrating Christmas Day at our house
Taking a day trip to Duck Creek, Utah to play/sled in the snow
To celebrating and ringing in the New Year 2021 with the family!
XO
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