snapshot of a year

 I thought it would be fun to capture this past year with just one picture dedicated to each month. So here you go...

 January: Like father, like son (ben LOVES Dave!)

 

February: Celebrating (Great) Nan T's 90th Birthday

March: I get the crazy idea for homeschooling to do one art project per day for March...didn't quite happen as I'd planned ;)
















April: Reese turns 5

May: enjoying Daddy pancakes on Sunday morning with what must have been almost the last of 2009's blueberries

June: Ben turns 1 (and a few days later cousin Jack is born)!

July: one of my favorite pictures from this year taken at the meeting point in NY where we went to get Hilary and the boys. A few days later Nan died on July 4 :( but she's with Jesus now so it's okay :)

August: Brie turns 7 - where did those years go?!

September: We go to Washington D.C., then Gettysburg with Dave, combining business with pleasure. Here the kids are groovin' to the "silly" music (aka the Anne of Green Gables musical)

October: Luke turns 4 and requests a solar system cake and which Dave creates for him

November: Okay, so this next picture didn't exactly happen in November, but it was close enough. And I couldn't resist including it. We planned a surprise party for Dave's mom's 70th birthday. Dave's brother Eddie, drove up from North Carolina, and, as you can probably tell, this was the icing on the surprise cake.

December: Ben's first really experience with snow (being tumbled face first off a sled several times earlier this year doesn't count : P )

And there you have it: a year filled with death (Nan T) and births (Jack and Caleb), milestone birthdays, memorable trips, tender moments and sweet memories of the everyday but never mundane. Goodbye 2010...may 2011 bring as much joy and grace to meet the challenges which come our way.