Friday, December 29, 2017

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



Monday, December 18, 2017

Family Christmas 2017


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.



Christmas Photo 2006 they year before we had kids





Wednesday, December 13, 2017

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