Top 10 Things

I learned in 2012 (that were caught on camera):

10: Even happy babies hate grass.

9: No matter how bad they mess up the nativity, kids in costume are priceless.

8. Natalie is the girliest of girls.

7: Doug was born knowing how to work the camera. 

6: Sometimes brothers are the best.

5: Babies with GERD are really good at planking 

4: My kids favorite past time - - mud hole.  Guess that makes us some kind of rednecks.

3. Though you might not have guessed it, Spider-Doug likes to party.  Anytime, anyplace.

2. I'm not really mentally ill; I have kids.

1. What my children look like in their natural habitat:

2012 - Well it's been another year.

About a week ago I decided I wanted to post a top 10 pictures from the year....well as it turns out I'm pretty easy to please because I liked a lot more than 10.  So this is what you get instead: 2012, a year in review, with  photos. (I know, pretty exciting.)

Doug turned 5, Jimmy turned 1, and Natalie turned 4 (and I made her an awesome cake).  Greg and I got older too, but we are far less fun to look at.

They all had birthday pictures taken too...

Natalie started preschool and Doug started Kindergarten:

There were 3 babies added to the extended family this year:

We bought a new house (try not to be too jealous of our luscious lawn):

Natalie finally finished potty-training and earned her Dora house (yea!).  Note: if you've spoken to her on the phone even one time in the last 8 months you already knew this.

Jimmy not only learned how to crawl and walk, but more importantly how to climb things so that's super-fun.

and of course we had a ton of fun with the fam at the ranch:

Of course we did lots of other stuff too....but there isn't any pictures of it so basically it never happened.