Monday, December 31, 2012

A Year in Review - 2012

2012 started out to be the year of home improvements. In fact, we got several big projects done!

Painted the living room…

living room done 08 Cleaned out ALL of the closets…

closets 03 Put all the music stuff in the schoolroom and the desks in the boys’ rooms and family room…

room swap 06 room swap 01 Painted the basement bathroom…

bathroom 03Painted Chris’ office…

after office 03Started painting the laundry room…

canning shelf 01And that’s where it stopped…

We realized that while we’ll have all the time in the world to work on the house, the boys won’t be at home much longer. So we decided to spend the year traveling as a family instead!

In February we went to Cannon Beach…

cannon beach 14cannon beach 18 I attended the Pastors’ Wives’ retreat at Warm Beach…

PW retreatBut the real  travel didn’t begin until after Zack’s graduation in June…

OH YEAH, Zack graduated this spring! He even spoke at graduation! We are so proud of him!

graduation 24  graduation 34 grad family 01 The weekend following graduation, Zack and the other grads all went up to the San Juan Islands for their senior trip…

sr trip 01Then it was time for Bible Camp at Warm Beach…

bible camp 16  Andy played in the talent show

Before we knew it, it was off to Creation…

Creation 36 creation 02 creation 29 Creation 34  August brought the annual convention in Fergus Falls. The boys hadn’t been back in 5 years, so we made a road trip of it…

First stop, Yellowstone…

yellowstone ours 26yellowstone will 80 yellowstone ours 53 yellowstone ours 77  yellowstone will 34 yellowstone will 50 Second stop, Fargo and Space Aliens…

space aliens 09 space aliens 03 Then Fergus and the CLB convention…

precon 04 precon 01 After driving home straight through from Minnesota, we turned around the next morning to go with the youth group on the Great Escape to Leavenworth…

great escape 24 Since we hadn’t done enough camping, the boys and I camped for a week down at my parents’ place at the  creek…

While we were there, our niece Olivia was born!

camping trip 02  camping trip 13 camping trip 14we also did some hiking in the Gorge

camping trip 56  

and we went tubing down the river

camping trip 52

After fall started, we did some traveling closer to home.

Mt St Helens…

mt st helens 14But in October, Chris and I celebrated our 20th anniversary with a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Hawaii! We stayed with our friends the Osbornes and had the most FANTASTIC time imaginable!!! We can’t wait to go back someday…

hawaii day eight 79 hawaii day eight 63  hawaii day five 65  hawaii day five 36 hawaii day five 53 hawaii day five 64hawaii day nine 16hawaii day nine 31   hawaii day seven 33  Now the college visits have begun! First, Western Oregon University…

wou 28 wou 15

The whole family went on the road for Thanksgiving this year! We rented a house on Devil’s Lake at the Oregon Coast! Although there were 25 of us, there was plenty of room for everyone! The weather was even good enough that we could use the kayaks and long boards out on the lake!!!

thanksgiving 09 thanksgiving 29 thanksgiving 39

We also had a second trip to WOU for our oldest son…

wou 02And had a very very Merry Christmas!!!

Christmas 31Hope each of you has a wonderful new year in 2013! 

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