While going through my reader the other day (Yes, I do go through it on occasion) I happened upon a post from Ashley from My Front Porch Swing and then the same one from Jessica over at Four Plus an Angel and decided to play along! I mean 12 pictures or my favorite posts from the year… how much easier can it get?
January brought Andrew’s first birthday! It seems so long ago but it was only a year…. and what a difference a year makes.
February brings Valentine’s Day… need I say more?
March and my little girl turned 9 and brought Flat Lauren to the party!
April at my parents house for Easter and the girls were on a scavenger hunt that their grandma puts together every year for them.
May! And my first ever blogging conference! I made the trip…. all2 hrous of it to Holland Michigan for Gleek Retreat where I met some incredible women all from Michigan! That’s me along with Elena from Mommy’s in Timeout and Katie from Sluiter Nation!
In June all three of my girls took part in one of the parades that take place every year during the Curwood Festival. I was a proud mama watching all of them march!
The heat of July is only intensified by sitting by the ball field while you watch your kids play for what seems like hours on end.
August brought another conference for me and this time it was Bloggy Bootcamp. If you ever have a chance to go to one of these GO! Seriously it was incredible! Here I am with so great friends from Michigan! Dutch Being Me, Mommy is in Time Out, Daily Dribbles, and Buried with Children.
First day of school for September of course.
October was warm… on occasion and the day we carved pumpkins the kids all made their way outside and spent the afternoon playing together and carving pumpkins.
Every year in November the high school marching band puts on one final performance of the marching season indoors. Yes, indoors! Where it’s warm & we can enjoy it. It is truly one of the best events during the year.
And that brings us to December. And with it being the holidays and all I bet you’re tired of seeing all those happy holiday type pictures so instead of that I’ve decided to grace you with the Pimp of Greek Town. Now, I have no idea what his name is or if he really is a pimp but I HAD to take a picture of this. We took a trip to Detroit for my daughter’s 16th birthday and I have to say that this was probably the highlight of the day!
So there you have it folks…12 pictures from the past year. I do have to say that I loved going through all the pictures from the year and seeing how the kids have changed and grown, the places we’ve been, and all the fun we had. Picking just one picture for each month was hard because I wanted to share so much more with you all.
How was your year? Have you had time to sit and look back at all your pictures yet?
Sounds like you had an awesome year!! How awesome that you got to go to 2 conferences. I was lucky to go to BBC in Boston and yeah, it was fab! Happy New Year to you and your beautiful family!
It was a pretty good year! I’d love to go to BBC again but there isn’t one close this year.
I too have a little one with a January birthday and it is amazing looking back at those photos!
I love the pic of your daughter on the ball field. I can almost feel the heat & humidity! UGH!
Summers in Michigan can be hot & very humid! I’m not sure if it’s worse sitting there watching the games or playing!
Love the first day of school photo and the fact that all three are SMILING!
Have a happy 2012, Jackie!
Oh, the pimp pic cracks me up!
Such a full and lovely year. I am giving Bloggy Boot Camp some thought for 2012 – BlogHer11 was a lot of fun but I crave something a little smaller and more intimate. Love Flat Lauren…we sent out a Flat Stanley.
Lovely, full year! Here’s to all that is good in 21012!
I remember you went to BBC, but I don’t think I knew about the Gleek one. This year Blissdom! Woohoo!
Such a cool look back, hope 2012 is just as great!
It looks like you’ve had a great year! February’s picture is just gorgeous.