2011 Recap

Recap of the year 2011 in the lives of Jeff and Jessica Wegner:

March 1: Engaged!!

April 2011: Celebrated one year of dating at Baby Animal Days

May 6: When our story began...

May 2011: Honeymoon in Park City/Jackson Hole

June 4: Best friend Julane and Ryan married in the Bountiful Temple

June: Grand Cayman vacation with the Wegners

June: Wolf Creek vacation with the Raus (plus my 21st birthday!)

July: Redd reunion and Mesa Verde trip

August 7: Jeff turned 25! And caught a fish :)

August: 2nd annual Willard Peak Meteor Shower campout!

October: New York trip and Jeff's cousin's wedding!

November 4: New nephew born! Luke Hardison Rau

November: Best friend/old roomie Jenni got married!

November: Thanksgiving with the Wegners in Colorado

December: One of my high school best friends, Jess Boy left for Russia to serve the Lord for a year and a half!

December 25: First married Christmas together :)

2011 was a pretty good year. I mean it's not like I got married or something... ;) We have a lot to look forward to this new year. A lot of big things will be happening and big changes coming our way! Can't wait!

A Warm Wegner New Years

Shortly after Christmas Day we headed out to California to spend time with all of Jeff's family for New Years! It was a wonderful, yet busy, busy vacation. I very much enjoyed the short sleeve, chaco, and even shorts weather!

Spent sometime on the beach!

Visited the San Diego Zoo!

And....

SEAWORLD!! I had forgotten how much I really love SeaWorld :)

Cute little Brielle and her Oma (Grandma)

Jeff and Hannah really seemed to enjoy this Elmo ride. Probably equally as much as Parker and Brielle :)

Hannah pretending to be a polar bear in the polar bear caves

Isn't this picture kinda' creepy...?? At first she didn't seem to even notice that there were tons of sharks swimming behind the glass. She was just having fun climbing on the sign of course.

Can't go to Cali and not get plenty of beach time in!

My husband is good enough to humor me and risk his dry body and clothes so I could get a cool splashing water picture

We had such a great time and it was so fun to spend more time with Jeff's family (I also got to meet his aunt, uncle and cousins for the first time)! However, it sure was nice to get back home to our own beds after a couple weeks of busy family time and traveling. And you better believe that I was as lazy as I could be for those few days left of Christmas break. I had to take advantage of the time because now it is right back into school, buuut.... It's my LAST semester! Yay! (sorry I know I talk about it a lot ha ha)

A Rau Christmas

Yes it's kinda late... but Merry Christmas to you all!

Christmas day proved to be a very busy one beginning at 8:00 am and not ending until 3:00 am :) A day filled with lots of presents, family, food, and lots of laughs!

We started the day off with presents of course!

Strangely enough, Matt has loved drinking lemon juice since he was a little boy.

One of the clocks in my mom's kitchen fell off the shelf and shattered just a couple weeks before Christmas, so we got her a new one!

It was our first married Christmas and it was SO fun! We mostly loved doing each others stockings ha ha.

The racquetball men

After presents and sacrament meeting, we stopped at Grandma's on our way down to Mapleton. We watched her open all of her presents, and this little dog had us laughing forever! It's called a Chuckle Buddy and it would roll around on the floor while laughing. Grandma just loved it and thought it was so cute! I think we had a little too much fun at Grandma's place ha ha.

Half of us who were at Grandma's

We finally made our way down to the Mapleton siblings where we opened more presents at Mike and Maridee's house then went next door to Katie and Danny's to eat a big meal, dessert, then games of course - can't have a Rau get-together without games :)

Grandma Rau and the newest addition, baby Luke!

I thought this was so adorable! Jeff was just laying on the floor then Brynlee randomly ran over and laid down next to him ha. She is so stinkin' cute!

Two tired boys after a long Christmas day