6/52

Goof ball city. This may be my new favorite photo of you.

Battle of the Books is raging and your little team of 3rd grade super boys are kickin' butt. It was so fun to watch you guys pull together to come up with the answers and you even won that match. Well done lil' readin' machine.

5/52

 Oh goodness, this sight, it does my heart good. You and your daddy playing on the floor, being wild and crazy. The best.

I had a couple hours to kill and so we headed to McDonald's and let you guys run out some energy. And boy did you ever. You were a hot sweaty mess by the end. I was so proud of you though because you befriended each new child that came in and included them in the game of tag/hide and seek/capture the flag that you were all playing together.

4/52

The children's museum is the perfect place to meet some friends on a rainy day. You two were squealing while playing with this fan/tube contraption. So much fun!

A minute to win it night at your school. Oh the concentration!

3/52

If you're gonna play with blocks, you better spread them all across the living room floor. (Also, look! Daddy took you to get your hair cut while I was gone last week. It looks pretty cute and the best part is you actually let us brush it on occasion now! Now more giant tangles!)

Hot Chocolate is always better with a straw. And a silly face.

2/52

The Uncle David rodeo won out for this week's photo. I am so grateful for the memories you with both grow up with filled with amazing family members and cousins and uncles and fun and love.

1/52

Snow day. Oh boy. You wanted so badly to go outside and play in it like your brother, but when I pulled out the snow pants you pulled out your grumpy face and getting you to wear them + your booths + gloves took all my negotiating tactics. All bundled up you unhappily marched outside. You held back as Logan and I made snowballs out of the very icey snow. You finally forgot your grudge long enough to join us for maybe a total of 6 minutes before throwing your gloves off and saying you were cold and wanted to go inside. Sigh... But hey. I got this cute picture of you throwing a snowball at the van. Your brother was cracking up since it most definitely went behind you instead of towards the van at all.

Our new Christmas kitty. You love him. And for the most part he seems to love you, or at least tolerates all the playing and tugging and tucking that you do with him. When I asked you to practice your piano you didn't want to be separated so you tucked him into your shirt and he actually stayed there while you practiced. If only we could get him to play with you, then we'd have an internet sensation!

2015

Well, I didn't take photos of my children every single day this year. In fact I took only a few of them the entire year. After my giant 365 project last year, I needed a break. They needed a break. They were getting tired of the big camera in their faces all the time. And that was fine. I had more photos of them than I really could do anything with. I did do something with all of them though, I had two giant books printed and I love them and pull them out to flip through pretty regularly.

I also occasionally will come back to this blog and look at the post from the same day the year before which is fun. I'm so very glad I did this project.

Now as 2016 is nearing I've been thinking about starting this project up again, although slightly different. I'm going to try to do 52 posts in 2016. One per week with either one picture of both or one of each. I loved the challenge last time so I'm looking forward to documenting a bit of our life these days, how my kids are different and older and still completely wild, precious and even a lil mundane.

For now, Here are a few of the shots I did take of my kids this year.