13 years of December.....minus 1

I was encouraged when reading one of my favorite bloggers post, 9 years of Decembers.....

she is intentional about looking back through her blog posts and remembering 

so i decided to do that same.

i have been blogging for 13 years with one of those years only having 8 blog posts the whole year and that last one that year was in May so there was no December that was blogged then.......

My Decembers have been full of some of the same things like posts about the books that i have read every year.......chances to see best friends......

thoughts on life.........52 adventures that we experianced.......myself expressed in words when i can think about the answers later and not spur of the moment answers............celebration of new life..............funny kid experiances............



the gift of hearing................vacations................





Christmas pictures...................mom advice..........first home purchase..................before kids.................



sentiments on friends....................Three Things Thursday

It has been so fun to go back through the Decembers of blogging past.

Books Read in 2017.....

this is one of my favorite posts of the year

I have been recording the books that I have read every year since 2004

I have no idea why I started doing it but I am do glad that I did and it has been so much fun

my goal for this year was 52

here is my 2017 list

lets see if I met that goal

Dad is Fat-Jim Gaffigan

The Mistletoe Secret-Richard Paul Evans

The Baxter Christmas-Karen Kingsbury

Along the Infinite Sea-Beatriz Williams

Duck Commander Family-Willie and Korie Robertson

The Magnolia Story-Chip and Joanna Gaines

Wild & Free-Jess Connolly and Hayley Morgan

Raising an Original-Julie Lyles Carr

Yes You Can Heather-Daphne Gray Whitestone

A Family Shaped by Grace-Gary Morland

Candle in the Darkness-Lynn Austin

Never Unfriended-Lisa Jo Baker

Fire by Night-Lynn Austin

Gods & Kings-Lynn Austin

Song of Redemption-Lynn Austin

The Strength of His Hand-Lynn Austin

The Secret Life of Peaches-Jodi Lynn Anderson

Uninvited-Lysa TerKuerst

Wind at the Door-Madeline L'Engle

Love and Peaches-Jodi Lynn Anderson

Love Story-Karen Kingsbury

Present Over Perfect-Shauna Niequist

The House at the Edge of Night-Catherine Banner

All She Ever Wanted- Lynn Austin

Hands Free Life-Rachel Stafford

A Light to my Path-Lynn Austin

My Lady Jane-Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows

Have a New Kid  by Friday-Kevin Leman

The Prayer Box-Lisa Wingate

Sea Rose Lane-Irene Hannon

Scrappy Little Nobody-Anna Kendrick

Eleanor & Park-Rainbow Rowell

The Chemist-Stephanie Meyer

The Princess Diarist-Carrie Fisher

A Chicken's Guide to Talking Turkey w/your Kids about Sex-Dr. Kevin Leman & Kathy Flores Bell

My (not so) Perfect Life-Sophie Kinsella

The Keeper of Lost Things-Ruth Hogan

The Seven Sisters-Lucinda Riley

Windfall-Jennifer E. Smith

Talking as fast as I can-Lauren Graham

Little Girls Can Be Mean-Michelle Anthony and Reyna Lindert

On Becoming Pre-teen wise-Gary Ezzo

The Storm Sister-Lucinda Riley

here are my lists from previous years

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

Family Christmas 2017

Last year i posted this post, Christmas Through the Years.

I love looking through the family Christmas photos that we take every year. They go back further than 2010 too. We have ones with just Golden Boy before Little girl was born and my Hubby and i took them before we had kiddos.

Here is 2008 Christmas Photo

Here is 2007 Christmas Photo

Christmas Photo 2006 they year before we had kids

Family

My family (the 10 of us)

and silly pictures are a mist to get the kids to cooperate with a good one.  

My parents and their four grand kids

my hubby's side of the family (all 11 of us)

silly us, of course

my in laws and the five grand kids