365+1 Week 52

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a very fun time ringing in the New Year.  We have had a fun time this last two weeks with the girls out of school and lots of time spent together as a family.  Tomorrow they go back and we are all back to the routine- everyone knows I love that, but the first morning is going to be rough!!

And now for the final week of my Project 365

Photo's #359- 366:

Christmas Eve.  Abby's prayers and hopes for a white Christmas were answered as the snow began to drop that afternoon and all through the night.  She was more than happy to go out and help her dad shovel it off the walks while we waited for our holiday dinner to cook.  Later we all cozied up together and watched "A Christmas Story" before we sent these excited bodies off to bed.

Christmas Day - the girls slept in until 8:00am!  Sure enough Santa had arrived bringing all that their little hearts desired.  Then we ate our traditional Cinnamon Roll breakfast, took a nap, and made our way to the Davis' for a fun evening of more gifts, dinner, and cousin fun.

The snow has continued to fall again all day.  This time the girls bundled up and went out for some playtime.  Upon their return it only made sense to warm them up with a cup of Hot Cocoa. We have many flavors- each has their favorite- currently I am obsessed with the Raspberry Cheesecake.

We spent the afternoon with my mother.  It was the perfect time to make a mess of her family room with the Lego's.  These are the originals from my childhood, and the girls love to create together and be a little silly along the way.

Friday we went horse back riding with my mother and lots of my family.  My mom and her sister's own and board a few horses down in Payson at a place with an indoor arena so they can be enjoyed year round.  While I took many photo's of all my girls, I chose this one because Olivia once again faced her animal fears head on and found that she enjoyed these gentle giants to the fullest.  Just look at that grin from ear to ear- I was very proud of her!

Saturday we celebrated Abby's birthday with a small party at home with a few close friends and a couple cousins.  She was delighted when I told her that her cousin Laurynn could come Friday night and have a sleep over before the party!!  After all the celebration we drove up to the Olympic Oval for some family ice skating time.  This was the one activity that Abby wanted to do during the break and I was happy to oblige.  The surprise of the day was how well Eva took to skating- I mean really really well, she LOVED it!!

A shot of the snow globes that we made for an activity during Abby's party.  My girls LOVE them.  They were fun to put together with all the party goers, but I do have glitter still turning up all over my kitchen :)

Birthday Photo Shoot with my Abigail.  10 years old and just a complete joy in my life!!

There you have it!!! I can't believe that I actually did it- 366 photo's documenting my daily life for an entire year.  Thanks for joining me along the way!!  I had so much fun doing this project.  I feel like I know my camera so much better, and my appreciation of the everyday has completely increased.  I really enjoyed finding something each and every day that made me happy, smile, or I was thankful for. I would almost call this a Happiness Project.  This last year has kind of been a rough one, but when I look through all these photo's I can see so much to be thankful for.  So many good things, happy times, and fun was had.  It was very strange to NOT take a photo yesterday!!  We will see, I have this new habit of documenting details, it isn't going to just disappear over night. 

Here's to 2013- I can't wait to see what it brings my way!