2010 Favorite Photos

So many photos to choose from.

Today, these are my favorites.

Tomorrow, that's likely to change.

:)

Goodbye 2010, Hello 2011!

December Week 5

December Week 5

The LAST Project Life 2010 blog of the year!

This week we went to Phoenix with the Covingtons

to watch the Hawkeyes play in the Insight Bowl Game.

We drove out Monday morning and drove home on Wednesday.

Monday night was the Hawkeye Huddle at the Phoenix Convention Center.

After the Hawkeye Huddle Pete and I were able to catch up for a few minutes with our friend, Andy before he caught his flight back to NY.

Tuesday was David's 22nd birthday, or according to Emily, he turned "two-two".

We went to Dave & Busters for lunch and fun.

Em took a late and much needed nap and then we left for the game!

We are not just fair weather fans...

(obviously... since we went despite all the bad stuff going on lately)

...but even we had our doubts about this game...

but... if you saw the game...

you'll know that my goofy and love-able brother,

David (currently a student at Iowa),

had a great birthday,

and the rest of us had a great night, too :)

Especially Emily!

She was adorable in her Hawkeye gear...

singing along to the fight song...

(she knows almost all the words, and this was her first game!)

Thanks Mom & Dad!

(They convinced Santa to give us the tickets, hotel rooms, meals and all!)

:)

Go Hawks!

Happy New Year!

December Week 4

December Week 4

December 19th-25th

It's Christmas Break!!!!!!!

AND... we are all healthy!!!!!

Woo-hoo! :)

yummy Christmas cookies

stockings and poinsettias

holiday books

lights on the tree

cozy afternoon naps

family campout night, sleeping under the tree :)

Going to see Santa all together at South Coast Plaza...

with Grandpa & Grandma Sasha, Uncle Mike, Aunt Jill, Uncle David, Mommy, Daddy and Emily!

The wait was TWO HOURS LONG but worth it for how much fun we had and how adorable Emily was talking to Santa... riding the reindeer carousel and everything else. :)

Decorating cookies with Mommy and Grandma on Christmas Eve in her new Christmas jammies, before church

Christmas Eve we went to late night service at Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena where Pete was playing and then put Emily to bed in the car on the way home.

Christmas morning... so. much. fun.

{do you see how hard she's concentrating on crowning her Cinderella bear?

that cute little tongue only sticks out like that when the utmost concentration is required} :)

Emily's new chair for reading, lounging and hiding :)

and maybe our favorite of Em's gifts... wii just dance kids.

fun for the whole family!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

December Week 3

December Week 3

December 12th-18th, 2010

It's my favorite time of the year, and not just because it's my birthday week. :)

It's time for concerts and parties, and so much more.

Monday night we had a spontaneous and wonderful get together with Jamie, Jenny, and their kids, Lindy, Alex & James at our house. It was a blast watching the kids play and catching up with our good friends who we haven't seen much as they have been living and serving in Haiti for the past year.

Emily and Lindy saying goodbye.

Sweet baby James, just over 2 months old. :)

Tuesday was my birthday. My last twenty-something birthday.

Pete took me out to dinner and I had a really fantastic day, full of great surprises.

Wednesday and Thursday were busy with work.

My last Christmas concert (that I directed) was on Wednesday morning.

Pete worked a lot, we went to several concerts, and worked on getting the house cleaned for our party.

Friday was a 1/2 day of school for me.

Yipee for Christmas Break!!!

I had a hair appointment after school, needed to pick up Emily from daycare and then I had several last minute errands to run to get ready for the life group (Bible study) party, but the car wouldn't start AGAIN (it's doing this quite frequently now, but no one can give us a good answer as to how to fix it!) so Leneé was kind enough to help get me where I needed to go.

Eventually (several hours later) I got the car started (it's an unsolved mystery, and if you know much about cars and want to solve it that would be fantastic!) and Emily and I went home.

Party prep was pretty much done and before we knew it Pete was home and our friends were arriving. :)

We had a fun night of letting the kids play together

while the grown ups visited, ate, drank & swapped cookies :)

I was proud of Emily for sharing her toys as well as she did.

I snapped this photo of her reading by herself in her room.

When I asked her what she was doing she told me the babies were all playing with her toys and it's hard to share so she wanted to read 'by myself'... at this stage, having her isolate herself for a little bit is better than the alternative of fighting over toys!

Jenny & James

Kelley, Alex & Julia

Kisses for baby Julia

We even managed a group photo of (most of) the kids.

Emily, Julia, Lindy, Alex & Isaac

Lindy, Emily & Me

The girls were trying to eat my necklace... (??)

Jamie & James

Pete, Lindy & Alex

James mustering up a little smile for his momma.

Thanks for a fun night, friends! :)

Christmas is coming!

December Week 2

December 5th-11th, 2010

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas :)

This weekend I brought out my Gramma's sewing machine, to make several simple Christmas pillows and a table runner. It was fun to be sewing again after a several year break, even if the projects were simple.

Pete climbed on top of our roof to put up our Christmas lights.

They look beautiful :)

...and THIS is what he used for a ladder!

It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

...but the roses are still blooming, and our weather is GORGEOUS,

65-75 degrees and sunny Monday-Saturday!