My favorite photo of the year is not even my photo.

The joy of watching your child choose Jesus and follow Him is unbelievable.

The joy of choosing Jesus and following Him is like nothing else this world could offer.

I love how this joy is captured in the face of both Ella and Jeremiah...

Ella's baptism at Jordan Lake, NC - September 2012

May your 2013 be filled with this kind of joy.
No other goal or resolution or achievement in 2013 will compare to the joy of knowing Him!

Jesus!

The reason and purpose and hope in life!

Happy New Year!

 Haiti, November 2012

Haiti.
Oh, Haiti.
One of the brightest spots of my 2012.

Blueberry picking kicked off our 2012 Summer of fun.

And this picture pretty much sums up the reality of outings with my four kids...

June 2012

Consider the below picture a bonus, because blueberry picking and blueberry smoothies go hand and hand. And because I smiled every single time I saw this picture this year...

I'm rocking my baby,

and babies don't keep...

Zoe and Me, June 2012

She's not a baby anymore.

She didn't keep.

But I'm so glad I snuggled and rocked and smooshed and held while she would still let me.

Holy Week Reading, Easter 2012 - Our favorite kids devotional that we've read through several times!

Reading, reading.

Narnia, A Little Princess,White Fang, and so on and so forth.

My favorite time of the day is snuggled up in my bed with a kid or two or four pressed into me listening to their Daddy read us all stories. It has been really cool to have children old enough (and with attention spans long enough) to enjoy our reading times and to really "get into" the books. 

Here's to more reading together in 2013!

Jeremiah, Kathryn, Eli, Ella, Kimberly, and Ezra - Late Spring 2012

Our neighborhood buddies + the early warm weather of NC + sprinkler and hoses + silly kids = childhood memories never forgotten.

Sadly, our neighborhood buddies are moving this week, so this picture is extra special remembering all the fun our kids had together over the last year.

Jacksonville, Florida - Spring 2012

Perfect weather.
Perfect beach.
Perfect family togetherness.
Perfect karate kid impersonation from my very near to perfect husband.
Perfect.

With all the thousands (yes, literally thousands...) of photos I took this year, I am going to attempt to do the impossible: post a photo a day though the end of the year. Photo's that sum up our year, photo's that are my favorite, and photo's that help me remember all the good, bad, ups and downs of 2012.

Without further ado, the first photo...

Zoe and Ezra.
Even at 5 months and 5 years old, these two together were the best kind of trouble.
And that poor loved caterpillar (whose antennae have been chewed to the nub)  has been the favorite of all my babies...

Zoe and Ezra, January 2012