In a nutshell.

This month we have~

Watched the effect of Taylor sitting across from the worlds pickiest eater (she liked dinner).

Made valentine cookies

AND Celebrated someones 12th birthday (how can that be possible?).

Well that is our month in a nutshell!

This is my 51st post!

My front yard this morning, Lacee said in TX they are getting snow today and yesterday before it even snowed they cancelled school.

Did you see my title? Fifty-one posts, not bad for less than 3 years (Oct 2007). Which brings me to the subject of this post, have you seen the project 365 blogs, you know a picture or a post a day for and entire year? Well I was thinking that maybe I could do a project 52. A post a week for a year ~ oh, wait already too late to start this year. I know ~ PROJECT 12. You heard it here first, Emilee is embarking on project 12. A guaranteed post a month for a whole year! The blogging world is going to be buzzing! Some months may even get extra! Here we go, a new adventure.

Smile!

O.K. Now smile with your eyes open.

We have been doing alot of this lately!

January ~ Done!

Pictures from the last year that I took to blog but they never made it ...

Until now! Yes I have taken many pictures with the intent to blog them and that is as far as they have gone. I figure now is a good time to take a look back over 2009.

WARNING: THERE ARE A LOT OF PICTURES IN THIS POST

Spring

Taylor and I would walk by this bird every day last spring. The nest was right off the side of the road (in the gravel) on the way to our mailbox. It was so fun to watch the killdeer act hurt to lure us away from her nest. Can you spot the eggs?

A visit to Zoo Montana!

Below is a bear that we saw in Grand Teton (maybe I need a better camera).

Kelly in front of the Grand Teton Mountains.

Summer

Second bear of the year, this time in Yellowstone, it really is a bear, not a cow. I promise that I am not pulling your leg.
Britnee, Macee & Annie having a fun cousin day!

Taylor (below)

September

Waiting outside the Temple for McKay & Ashley.

Jake, Britnee, Macee, Annie, Taylor

Pictures of the reception in Fairfield, the weather was perfect!

October

Britnee was baptized.

Annie, Britnee, Macee, Taryn

This is what happens when you are baking cookies and you decide to start checking ALL of your friends blogs. Notice the dark, really crunchy, almost burnt batch.

Treats from our Halloween Party

The kids wouldn't even eat the slimy worms, I don't understand why.

Some of the group

Britnee getting ready to perform in her 2nd grade play, she was Sarah Josepha Hale.

Did you make it clear down here? Now you have seen part of our year in pictures. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Look who's 2

I can't believe that my baby is 2. I guess time flies when your having fun!

This takes incredible talent & help from a big brother!

My kids wanted to know what Taylor would look like with glasses, I guess now we know!

This is what we did for Christmas Eve just after Taylor was born. We are so happy to have her as a part of our family!

When I was looking for that picture I saw all of her newborn pictures so I just can't help myself to not add one of these, my precious little girl who is growing up!

Kelly warned me.

Lacee, Kaden & Kolby are visiting me for an entire week! Kelly warned me not to put up the Christmas tree but I told him that we have always put up a tree while our kids were little. So we put it up last night and this happened about an hour ago....

Proper Table Setting

This is how Britnee sets her fathers place at the table.

Now for some random pictures since I again have managed to

avoid blogging for an extended period of time.

These are from 9-13-2009 on our way home from Fairfield

(the pics. are from between Windham and Hobson).

Where else in the world would you find "Hay Bale Sculptures"?

I LOVE MONTANA!!!

You can't see the one below very well but it is hay bales roasting

marshmallows I thought it was cute.

Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be cow bales.

Here is a picture from the first day of school.

Remember the Easter candy story? Well now Taylor is a

little older and she finds my chocolate.

Time to find a better hiding place!

Confessions of an Inconsistent Blogger

In 2 short days school starts, I can't believe that I let the whole summer go by without blogging.

1. I have over 250 pictures on my camera card, at least 6 sets of the pictures were taken specifically for blogs. The number blogged however is zero.
2. We only took our kids camping for 1 night over the summer, last summer was zero.
3. I thought this would be so cute and funny and I am not coming up with much at all.
4. There are still unpacked boxes in my basement family room (yes it has been over a year)!
5. Meals, dishes, and laundry might have also been slightly inconsistent over the summer.
6. I am currently hiding from my sweet 20 mo. old so that I don't get extra buttons pushed on my computer.

I'm ready for a more regular schedule,but the summer went by too fast. I really like to know what my children are doing, who they are talking to, what they are learning (from their friends), etc; it's hard to let them go (in those ways). Seriously I can't believe how quickly the summer has gone by. I'll post a couple of pictures of our summer.

Fairfield, MT

Proudly known as the Malting Barley Capital of the World!

These grain bins really are big ~ put them on your list to see someday

Below: Mom & Dad with Kolby, Kaden, Dylan, and Taylor

We are so blessed to have a wonderful family!

Unless you were in Choteau, MT for the 4th of July ~ I bet you didn't see this!

Don't you hate it when you go grocery shopping and you get home and find your bananas or pears squished. Well we made it home from Costco without squishing anything. Then we put this on our table and turned our backs. What do you do? It must have looked like a cush place for a tush. I took this picture for a blog post. I guess it finally made it!