Memory Lane 2011

It was a bit of a stress filled, harder beginning for 2011.  But as life is, it ebbs and flows in different waves and  there is always many good memories to look back on too even through the tough stuff.  And that's why I love to do this meme.  You just look back over your year of blogging and find one thing that sticks out for you for each month.

January

January was presenting itself to be a really tough month with Hubby's Mom having a stroke.  But this little guy was now into his second month with us and he was doing his darndest to lighten the mood around the house.

February

January and February brought snow so we saw these guys out a few times clearing the roads.  A perfect opportunity to use the new camera.

March

Apparently I was in full on cooking mode this month because I cooked and shared quite a few recipes.  Upside down pizza, firecracker chicken, my sloppy joes,  and avocado chicken and shells all made it onto the blog that month.  At the beginning of the month we took in the Titanic Exhibit in the big city.  Sooo interesting and worth it.

April

There was more of the white stuff providing more fun camera time.  And hubby's beloved Mom went to be with the Lord on the Easter Sunday.  We still miss her greatly!

May

We celebrated my Dad's 80th with a suprise party in his condo party room.  He had no clue until we literally dragged him into the room.  We had to weave quite a convoluted tale of why I was there in dressier clothes to play pool.

June

Todd continued to amuse us with his antics.  One less person to keep an eye on him as T, our youngest, went to a 3 week youth missions course.

July

July found us on the road for an 7 hour one way trip to deliver our oldest daughter her new to her car.  We sure miss that girl and after 3 years still think 7 hours is much too long of a distance.  We'll never get used to it.

August

August saw me fullfill a bucket list wish of parasailing when we took a family vacation to the Okanagon Valley in British Columbia.  Yes, that is really me up there and it was one of the most thrilling yet peaceful things I have ever done.  I'd do it again in a nano-second!

September

Apparently September saw not a whole lot happen in my real life, blogging life, or picture taking life.  I talked a lot about the weather and books that month.  Hmmm.

October

Fall arrived in beauty.  I was blessed with boxes of fresh garden tomatoes so a lot of October found me making vats of spaghetti sauce and salsa to freeze.

November

November saw a real drop in blogging for me.  Only 9 posts.  I think I just got tired.  November also saw the craziest wind storm we have ever had around here, whipping a grass fire to extremely scary porportions as it sped towards the west side of our city.

December

Christmas was wonderful in spite of the fact that the beginning of December I was pretty darn unmotivated.  Surrounded by my family is where I'm most content!

So that about wraps up my year.  It's fun looking back to see where it started and the journey through it.  Happy New Year to everyone!  I'm looking forward to getting back to some more blogging fun in 2012!