i heart ... 2009

my favorite pictures of 2009

(and it should come as no surprise

that most of these are pictures of my nieces & nephews!)

january

thomas just learning to crawl

clayton & samuel

clayton, paulina, & natalie

february

clayton - the boy with the golden feather!

natalie on the trampoline

clayton finding out he was going to be a big brother again

i've never seen a baby who loves books as much as thomas!

and i'm so happy thomas has a big brother like ammon

who is happy to read to him!

valentine's day party

natalie, brennan, kaitlyn, paulina, & sierra

march

ammon's ginormous orange

sierra through the kaleidescope

ava & paulina

natalie's birthday

april

thomas jefferson attends his first political rally
and totally gets into it!

a visit to my cousin jennie's family

jacey, jaren, jayton, & jackson

may

paulina

my beautiful sonoran desert

have you ever seen a baby so joyous to pet a dog???

thomas

my sister-in-law rebeca's graduation

here comes air force one!

and lookie here...

see who flew in on air force one

to personally congratulate rebeca on receiving her doctorate?

sisterly love

natalie & paulina

memorial day bbq

more sibling love...

clayton & ava

kaitlyn gets beignets for her birthday

thomas' first trip to the library

june

cooling off at nielson's frozen custard

kaitlyn, brennan, & ammon

this is all i've got for june.

i think i was just too hot to take pictures!

july

ava

paulina

ammon & thomas reading, again!

thomas & noah

august

thomas, noah, & samuel at our family reunion

the punk rock show!

brennan, sierra, kaitlyn, & ammon

caleb & ammon

thomas on the saddle from sundown ranch

shelby

noah & ammon

caleb & sierra

stephanie & shelby

sierra - always with a flower in her hair

clayton

clayton - the spy!

eli & ava playing peek-a-boo

september

i love that smile!

thomas

kaitlyn & ammon

a kiss from thomas

brennan

october

(this photo needs no introduction!)

samuel scrambles an egg for me!

noah with a goatee

(or a mishap with a suction cup!)

caleb

caleb is my favorite artist.
oh, and renoir too.

shelby

samuel

oops! i mean, count dracula!

ammon, sierra, kaitlyn, thomas, & brennan

clayton, ava, & natalie

paulina



november

cowgirl kait

veteran's day parade

ammon & natalie

natalie flying her flag for veteran's day

paulina

samuel, clayton, noah, & caleb

samuel

caleb & shelby watching the fountain

all of my nieces & nephews!

when we all were together at thanksgiving time

i took this picture for our christmas present to my mom.

my cousins and i have a picture like this
from when we were children
and i wanted to recreate it,
but by this point in the day the children were so over
having their picture taken!

ava & clayton

paulina, natalie, & ava

thomas & clayton

eli

thomas playing wii.

doesn't he totally look like he knows what he's doing?

he doesn't!

he just copies what his brother & sisters do!

december


this is the first time i heard natalie read!

like, really read! not just for pretend!

natalie's ballet recital

look at the shadow of thomas' eyelashes...

i was driving down the street & look who i saw...

my niece kaitlyn & my cousin summer

bruiser!

a missing tooth and bandaged head.
(clayton)

first a bruiser,

and now a monkey!

the missing tooth & bandaged head are making more sense now!

paulina being her crazy self!

anyone who knows her knows just what i'm talking about!

ava

eli the hedgehog

ava & ammon

as joseph & mary

my new kitty

lucy!

... and that's the end of 2009!












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