day 358.

its been a Great Year!

especially the last few weeks of it :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

i can't believe my this project is over.

i have NO IDEA why i only have 358 days, though.

that makes me sad :(

i guess i could go through and count all of them to see where i messed up.. weird!

oh well.

i loved doing this, and now that it's over, i don't know what i am going to do.

its become such a habit to get my "photo of the day"

i got really lazy there though at the end of it. i wasn't bringing my camera around everywhere with me like i used to, and i missed out on some cool photos, which is sad.

i'm thinking i'll do another one of these, soon.

i want to make a book of it!

if you are a fellow 365'er , leave me your blog, i'd love to keep up with you!

thanks for all my loyal followers! 

hope you all have a WONDERFUL NEW YEAR!!

and i challenge you to in SOME WAY, document your everyday life. You'll be surprised at what awesomeness surrounds you. you'll learn to appreciate small things. you'll see beauty everywhere, even in the mundane. you don't have to be a photographer, you just have to LIKE to take pictures AND commit to it.

SO DO IT! you won't regret it!

goodbye, sob sob.

day 356.

jaxon's first Ideal Dairy experience.

he got to choose out his own punch bag, he thought that was pretty cool.

day 355.

i don't know what's more fun,

actually playing the kinect,

or taking pictures of people playing the kinect.

day 354.

my brother got the complete set of "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey"

Him and my Dad were so cute reading them to eachother and laughing.

day 353.

Grandma and Grandpa Talbot's "Christmas Train"

this thing is cool.

its out every year, and the kids love it.

day 352.

i love love love Christmas songs, and even more i love singing them. i want to add a new tradition to our tradition list; singing christmas hymns. we did it this year and it was amazing.

hope you had a merry christmas.

day 351.

Ho, Ho, the Mistletoe,

hung where you can see

that stuff with the white-ish berries is Mistletoe!

day 350.

gearing up for Christmas Eve.

Its a very very important night at our house.

we have our whole day planned out.

andy bought this tablecloth, btw.

he is so funny about christmas. i  absolutely love it.

day 346.

working hard to put together 24 pages for both mom's for christmas.

lotta work!

day 345.

evening stroll around the block. in the rain. with jax.

day 343.

day 342.

i have to take a minute to brag.

i took this picture ALL in camera. I did not edit it to be all swirly like that. i did that ON MY OWN! no photoshop!  I am just so proud!

don't ask me to do it again, i tried and i can't.

but i am quite happy about this!

day 341.

peace on Earth.

day 340.

tonight was andy's work christmas party. we finally got to see where he spends his weekends working his butt off! i met his manager who said he wished he had 100 andrews running around working there because he's such a great, hard worker! that's cool!

oh we were lucky to get this photo, there are no cameras allowed there, but i NEEDED a photo, and i wasn't about to be told no because of a stupid rule. we did it fast and no one saw. andy's not  a rule breaker, so he wasn't exactly happy about this.

day 339.

andy made this cute little guy in grade school.

day 333.

all is calm, all is bright.

day 326.

i love traditions.

andy has TONS of them, and i love that too.

one of his christmastime traditions is making peanut butter cookies.

and as you can tell, its very serious business.

day 324.

tree.

day 323.

this year is MY year with the tree decorations!

yay!

that means: white, silver and blue.

day 322.

happy thanksgiving.

i am thankful for LIFE.

let me explain why i chose this photo. its been a crazy year for me, and for my husbands side of the family, and for a dear friend of mine. LIFE has been crazy. many babies were born, but none of them being mine. 4 of my sister in laws had babies this year. this is one of them. my friend has two babies that were completely unplanned, and she is unmarried. this isn't a self pity post by any means. what makes this whole thing significant and ironic, is that this baby's daddy has cancer, and has been told he has a 10% chance to live. This baby right here was conceived ONE month before they even knew he had cancer, and before he started chemo right after, making him sterile. this baby was a miracle.

this baby was given LIFE.

LIFE is a miracle.

i am so very blessed to have LIFE, while some our struggling so hard for theirs.