I had hoped to give our Christmas Greetings to all our friends and family via my blog, as I did last year, but well...that just didn't happen. So let me take a moment to say, I hope you all had a wonderful season, celebrating our Savior's birth.
And now, on this, the first day of 2011, I have decided to take a look back at the past year with pictures from each month. Since I don't scrap book and don't even print our digital pictures anymore, I figure this is the one place I can maybe successfully document a snapshot of our life.
2010 A Year In Pictures
January
January found us going to basketball tournaments almost every weekend for our 3rd grade son. It also found Cal and I trying to figure out how to take an "action" photo with our new camera...a task we are yet to master. Carter's team did really well.
Carter especially likes trophies!
February
March
Taryn turns 6 with a Barbie/Nail Party!
Goofy Girls!
Hey! Look at that -- Hannah Montanna got an American Girl Doll for her birthday!
April
Paige turns 12 and we were actually still able to surprise her with a gift...
She got an I-pod Touch which I overheard her tell a friend the day before that her parents would never buy her that... ha!
May
Middle School Marching Band at the Tulip Fesitval in Orange City.
June
Summer brings more games to watch (and many other things worth photographing)
Softball for Paige...
Baseball for Carter...
What do you suppose they are planning?
Good old-fashioned summer fun for Taryn
Poor Taryn had to sit and watch a LOT of games -- but we allowed her to have some of her own fun with cousin Corrie!
A family shower at The Fruited Plain for Mia, my sister-in-law to be.
Canada Fishing trip. After a day on the boat -- Carter kept right on fishing.
Not bad Cal.
The rest of the men.
Father's Day -- lucky man, lucky kids!
Nothing says summer like the neighborhood Lemonade stand!
They were ambitious kids...grossing over $20.00 for 4 hours work. Their angle was to charge .$50 a cup and then when the customer handed them a dollar, they would look at them with all their kid cuteness and ask if they wanted their change. Those poor customers -- what could they say?
July
Celebrating the 4th at Okoboji!
Uncle Brent giving Paige a taste of her own medicine.
Later in July we had a college friend reunion of sorts -- meeting up with 8 families in the Twin Cities.
They ate only half of the $8 bag of cotton candy! I think we spent more on food than tickets.
We then headed to a lake cabin for the remainder of the weekend.
Paige -- the scream heard around the lake!
July also included a week with Grandpa & Grandma in Sioux Center where all three also attended theatre camp.
Paige - Playing the part of Rose in Sleeping Beauty
Carter -- a henchman (rather fitting)
Taryn -- a sweet sheep.
August
A trip to the zoo with G'pa and G'ma and Corrie.
The baby camel got the sippy cup!
Carter takes such good care of his cousin.
This bear just makes me laugh -- so I thought I'd include it.
A camping trip to Lewis & Clark State Park in Yankton, SD
Fishing again.
The good old Palamino!
September
School Starts!
Starting First Grade.
(I make my kids hold up the number of fingers of the grade they are in -- or I will never keep it all straight.)
Starting 4th Grade.
Starting 7th Grade.
A trip to the Apple Orchard with friends.
I'm not sure they are supposed to climb the trees.
Or eat the apples in the field -- but I like to live dangerously.
The kitty was the highlight for Taryn.
Fall also brought football games.
Soaked but happy after winning the championship in a downpour.
And 7th Grade School Volleyball...
October
The highlight of this month was my brother's wedding -- I have so many pictures of this special event (200 to be exact), but I narrowed it down to 18 that I wanted to include here, but I fear I am running out of space. So I am putting out 5 here and to see more click here.
And I would be remiss if I didn't include a picture of the highlight of Carter's year...
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