2019 was a darn good year! Favorite memories and photos of 2019

I decided to do my 2019 recap with my favorite photo or two from each month of the year.  I will then write about each photo in a paragraph and why it was so special to me.

January: These two pictures were of our fun family trip to Sun River after the holidays.  Lulu encountered snow for the first time and I captured these beautiful picture of her and Brandon playing in the backyard in the snow together.  We had fun hanging out with the Mowery's who were in Sun River part of the time we were.

February: We celebrated Valentine's Day, went to the Cub Scout Aubrey Lodge and got to sled and see a ton of son, and Brandon and I had a lot of fun at the Alberta Rider Rockin' Fun Night.  February went by quickly and was a lot of fun.

March: We went to Great Wolf Lodge for Spring break and also to Skamania Lodge where we hiked Multnomah Falls and around the lodge.  Lulu still had her beautiful long hair (but not for long!)

April: We all went to the Woodburn Tulip Festival and encountered some soggy weather but the tulips were in full bloom.  We celebrated Easter down in Eugene and had a lot of fun!

May: Brandon enjoyed playing Spring baseball and Lulu went to almost all of his games.  We got together with the cousins over Memorial weekend up in Washington and had a blast.

June: Olivia graduated from kindergarten and had a big graduation and classroom party.  Olivia participated in her gymnastics' Mini Olympics and performed in her dance recital.  The kids celebrated Father's Day with their best daddy ever.  Olivia and I had a fun girls weekend with Brooke and Addie to the beach.

July: We celebrated the 4th of July and had a fun bike rodeo for Brandon's Cub Scout den.  We celebrated Olivia turning 6 and went to her favorite restaurant-Old Market Pub. We had a quick trip to the beach and had a blast in Sun River again on the hike to Sparks Lake.

August: We enjoyed a week without kids and I took a photography class in which I practiced my skills on taking photos of Lulu.  We went camping at the beach. We had a blast watching porcupines eat corn on the cob at the zoo.  We ended our fun summer with a trip to California to Berkeley and Los Gatos.

September: The kids started school and all their fun fall sports.  We had a fun Larson clan trip to Hood River.

October: The kids got to go to Disneyland for the first time and as a family we spent an enchanted 5 days at Disneyland.  So many fun memories made!

November: A very fun trip up to Marysville WA to see Dawn's family for Thanksgiving.

December: We celebrated Brandon turning 9, he had a fun birthday party, Brandon started his winter basketball league, we saw Santa, went to zoo lights and the Tigard lights, and had an amazing Christmas in Corvallis. We ended the year with good friends and all made it to midnight!  I can't wait to see what 2020 brings!