finishing up my year in review.

I am going to wrap up my picture collages today.

Here are our family memories from July to December 2012.

All wrapped up in to little collages.

Enjoy!

Fourth of July pictures with cousins right before we said goodbye to move to PA; Jonathan’s birthday in our new house; Jex finds his way around our new neighborhood; moving in to our new home.

Jex has some friends over for his tenth birthday; Stella has some girlfriends over for a cake boss party; Stella breaks her wrist; the kids start school; Isaac starts Kindergarten; Isaac turns five; Stella turns seven; Jex turns ten; Jex takes good care of Stella; Tess settles in to our new house; we enjoying the beauty of PA; Tess and Stella paint faces

Stella Grace prepares for her baptism day; she looks so beautiful in her white dress; mom and dad go to a couple of concerts; Jex works hard to get his bear badge at cub scouts; Daddy baptizes Stella on Sept. 16, 2012; Kristin and Lindsay come for Stella’s baptism; we go to Hershey World; the cousins enjoy time together; we visit Dutch Wonderland over Labor Day weekend; Whoopie pie festival with our visitors, complete with a whoopie pie launch; our family gets a new piano and kids start lessons

Stella and Isaac have a dance a thon at school; Tess turns three and wants a cake with suckers; Tess is so excited to be three; G&G Swenson come for a visit; we celebrate Ruby’s first birthday; Hurricane Sandi almost prevents Halloween; but it didn’t'; Spooky Halloween dinner with G&G; Jex and Stella play fall soccer; mom and dad dress up for Halloween

making Thanksgiving crafts; Eastern Market with Krysta; chicken pot pie for lunch; our November mantle; we put up our Christmas tree; Krysta takes our family pictures; voting in a big election; Tess is a turkey; saying goodbye to Krysta, it was a great visit; thankful for sisters that love each other; Thanksgiving with the Woodruffs; Justin Moore concert, front row, go HOGS!!

Christmas break; Amazing; Santa comes and brings a kindle; Jonathan gets an acoustic guitar; mommy loves her new coat; make a trip to the D.C. temple;  Christmas Eve dinner; Christmas pajamas; making a gingerbread train; Isaac has his tonsils out; Jex and Stella have their first piano recital

Thanks for reviewing our year with us.

Check out January through March here.

Check out April through June here.

A year in review; picture style

In honor of a New Year, I love to reflect on the beautiful moments from the previous year.

Once again, I have put together collages that pretty much sum up 2012 for our family.

I have to admit that this is one of my favorite posts to go back to. 

I love having one spot that reminds me of just how amazing our year was.

I am going to break this up in to quarters; so as not to bombard you with our whole year at once.

My next few posts will just be family memories from 2012. 

I wouldn’t want to start out 2013 here at J and A & Company,  any other way.

Plus; I have a lot of things to catch up on around home so this is a good way for me to share something here on my blog.

Enjoy January, February,  and March 2012 with the Swenson family:

We make a visit to Houston to see the Moes family for New Years; the daddies put on quite the fireworks show; Tess hates fireworks; Swenson kids and Moes kids enjoy being together; Isaac enjoys hanging out with his buddies; Stella tries out her new camera; Tess loves on Rapunzel; Stella is a good mother to Tess

Jex and Stella go to their first concert; a small event with Josh Turner and Lauren Alaina; kids play icecream quiz for FHE; Tess is always dressing up and jumping on mom’s bed; kids get creative with their toys; we take a trip to Branson and play at an indoor water park; the kids celebrate Valentines at school

We decide to enjoy Spring Break at home; hanging outside in the warm weather; teaching the kids to make breakfast; putting together puzzles; Garvin Gardens for the beautiful flowers; making the kids eat snack in the sink because I hate crumbs; Jex plays baseball; and makes a bond with his coach; I see Hunger Games with some friends; Potty train Tess

Collage Templates made by the amazing and talented Rebecca from Simple as that.

You can find our collages from 2011 here and here.