Sunday, January 1, 2012

Happy New Year!

Welcome to the new year! It's going to be a very exciting year full of adventures and changes in the Warren home. Instead of sharing our resolutions, we want to play catch up and share the many wonderful adventures we've had together in 2011. Thank you for being a part of our adventures, and for letting us be a part of yours.

January:
  • We spent four days in Utah, attended a friend's wedding reception, went snowboarding at, and shared 16+ hours in the car together.
  • Danny celebrated his quarter century birthday (25 years old!)
  • We mourned the passing of Danny's Grandma Warren
  • We celebrated our 6 month of dating
  • We celebrated Danny's Grandpa Chalk's 80th birthday
February:
  • We were married for time and all eternity in the San Diego, California Temple!!!
  • Did anything else happen during this month? We wouldn't know.
March:
  • Enjoyed our honeymoon (partially in Utah, mostly at home relaxing)
  • Holly turned 26
  • Danny returns to his Wednesday evening "guys night" after being married
  • Our apartment is infested with ants and we have to "bomb" the place
  • Danny takes (and passes) his first of four certification tests for work
April:
  • Organized our first game of ultimate frisbee since being married
  • Holly buys a new (her first) mountain bike
  • Holly is called to the Relief Society Presidency (Secretary) in church
  • We attend the Mormon Helping Hands service project (Danny gets to machete bamboo)
May:
  • Danny takes another certification test (and passes)
  • We take a camping trip to Lake Dixon (Escondido) and go mountain biking at Daley Ranch
  • Danny gets new tires on his truck
  • Danny is called to be Second Counselor in the Elders Quorum at church
  • We have the missionaries over for dinner for the first time
  • We attend the wedding of one of Danny's coworkers, at the Encinitas Botanical Gardens
June:
  • Another ultimate Frisbee game is played
  • We attened a wedding reception of a mutual friend in Oceanside
  • Danny takes his last two certification tests (passes one, but not the other)
  • We go to the Del Mar Fair (San Diego County Fair) and eat too much mexican funnel cake
  • Make a trip to the Los Angeles, California Temple and go to a wedding reception for one of Holly's friends
  • Danny takes his last test again (no luck)
July:
  • We go to BSA Camp Whitsett for a (long) 4th of July weekend (where Holly used to work) and do mountain biking, hiking, kayaking, rock climbing, shotgun & rifle shooting, archery, and hiked the Trail of 100 Giants.
  • Went to a bonfire and movie with some awesome friends
  • Helped Danny's brother PJ with his eagle project
  • Saw Harry Potter 7 part 2
August:
  • Visited Holly's Grandma Kutcher in Hemet, California
  • Celebrated the wedding of another mutual friend
September:
  • Danny takes his third attempt at his last certification test (still no luck)
  • We celebrate Labor Day by cooking dutch oven with both families (at the Anderson's)
  • We experience a 10-hour power outage that affects Southern California, and parts of Arizona and Mexico
  • We attend our local Harbor Days celebration in Oceanside
  • Danny takes his fourth attempt at his last certification test (YAY! HE PASSES!)
October:
  • Holly surprises Danny with a trip to Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park
  • We go pumpkin hunting at Bates Nut Farm
  • We show our Pirate Pride and go to the Oceanside High School Homecoming Football game
  • We participate in the Oceanside S.U.N community service project
November:
  • Celebrate yet another wedding of mutual friends
  • Danny attends his first "Code (nerd) Camp" of the year
  • We vist Holly's Grandma Kutcher for the last time before she passes away
  • Holly is called to be the Secretary for the Stake Public Affairs for church
  • We attend the wedding of a friend of Holly's and afterwards go to the Redlands, California Temple
  • We spend Thanksgiving in Chandler, Arizona with Holly's family where we visit the Mesa, Arizona Temple
December:
  • We get to do all of our Christmas gift shopping together
  • We celebrate TWO weddings this month of mutual friends
  • We spend quality family time with both families during the holidays
  • We visit the Newport Beach, California Temple
  • We have an AWESOME New Years Eve together as husband and wife

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