Best Of 2011

I thought I would start at the beginning...I heard it was a pretty good place to start....haha...I will try to only post one picture for every month that way it's not such a photobomb.


January 2011

My dad turned 50 this year!

February 2011

 

My Heart(s)

March 2011

big as a house

April 2011

Carlie Elizabeth Hill

April 17th 2011

8lbs 3oz  21inches

6:26 pm

complete

and just one more...

presh...

May 2011

sisters

June 2011

Cincinnati Zoo

July 2011

                                           Family Camping Trip

August 2011

June Ann is "oFISHally" 3!

Maddie turned 8 and that ROCKS!!

September 2011

Halloweekend at Lake Rudolph...we love camping!

October 2011

A Hershey Kiss, a Gingerbread Girl, and a Snowman

November 2011

Maddie got Student Of The Week...we ate at Mexico (June Ann's term) to celebrate!

December 2011

The last four pictures were taken by Nickie's Photography.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE them!!!

She captured our family perfectly and my favorite is the feet picture...

It sums each girl up at this moment perfectly!

 I am truly sorry for all the pics at once but it has been a really great year for The Hills and  we can't wait to see what 2012 is holding for us. I will try to post my resolutions in the next couple of days!

                                                                      Happy New Year !!!

I will post tomorrow...promise...

WHERE DID DECEMBER GO???? I have turned around and it is almost completely gone!!! I am shocked. I WILL post some "Best Of 2011" pictures tomorrow and I will try to find some pictures of me because now we are only 2 weeks away from my birthday...blech....but for now I am really busy doing important things like playing Just Dance 3 with June Ann and searching Pintrest for incredible things like this...


                                                                                 




How stinking cute is this!!! I have got to get one for Carlie and I have a couple friends having babies that might need these...I am in love!


Will have a post tomorrow....

End of November...

So I totally slacked off in the last week of November about posting...sorry my days just got crazy! We had a great Thanksgiving it just went by way too fast. We had a wonderful visit with our extended families and found out some FANTASTIC news about my cousin who just found out she is expecting!!! We are so excited for you Lisa!!! The Lord has blessed our family so much this year and is continuing to pour out blessings over us. On a less exciting note, I just realized today that my 30th birthday is coming up rather soon...6 weeks....and I kinda threw up in my mouth. I can't even think about it.  As we enter December, I decided that I am going to try and post "The Best Of 2011." Just some holiday or special pics that happened this year before I started this blog. I am also thinking about scanning in some old pics of me as a countdown to Black Saturday...aka January 14th...aka my 30th birthday. So be ready, they might be pretty hilarious. Also if you want to email any submissions to my photo collection countdown, I will review and possibly post them. But for tonight, I will leave you with a few pictures of what has gone on around here in the last few days. Happy December! 

Happy Turkey Day!

Tree time...tutus are optional

Carlie is mobile now...not quite on all fours but she pull herself anywhere

Thank you Lord for these waffles cinnamon rolls. My new favorite snack!

Rub a dub dub three girls in the tub

Snowflake, our elf, here keeping an eye on the girls to make sure they are being nice

Happy Christmas!

My First Christmas...YAY!!

30 Days: Day 23

November 23, 2011

Today I am thankful for the day off tomorrow. I am glad that I am not having to worry about going in to work on a holiday. Lots of people don't have that luxury. P.S. You won't see this girl in any store that is open on Thanksgiving....everyone deserves time to rest with their family. And for those of you who are going to be sitting for HOURS in order to get great deals, bless your hearts. I hope you get what you are looking for. I just like to go and watch people on Black Friday. They are crazy!!! You won't find any Christmas spirit or holiday cheer in Wal-Mart come 8:00 tomorrow night that is for sure. Those people are out for blood...haha
Happy Turkey Day!!

30 Days: Day 22

November 22, 2011

Today I am thankful for Pinterest. For those who are not on Pinterest, it is a website where you can "pin" your Internet findings on to specific boards so you can reference them later. I have been doing this manually for years. My college roommates called them my "files." I would tear pictures out of magazines, print out pictures and ideas from the Internet, and tear out and make copies of millions of recipes that I wanted to try. Then about once a month I would organize my files and separate my findings in to specific categories. Food, wedding, baby, fashion, etc. But now Pinterest allows me to do all this online and more. Now I have exclusive access to every one's files. I am mildly obsessed. I am constantly yelling for Randy to come and look at what I have found...He has repeatedly told me I am losing his pinterest....haha...So here are a few of the projects I have tried...I am pretty pleased with how they turned out...Please follow me so I check out all your ideas too.

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I have sooo many more that I want to try...if only this was my job...sigh...

30 Days: Day 21

November 21, 2011

Today I am thankful for a holiday week. Thanksgiving is my FAVORITE holiday. I love the weather, the decor, the food, the food, and the food, and I love love love the parade. I am so excited to see my family and spend time with them and then finally get to put up our Christmas tree and other decorations. I love this time of year. Here is a sweet picture of June Ann from Thanksgiving last year....man she is getting so big....

30 Days: Day 19-20

November 19, 2011

Today I am thankful for a quick calm Saturday at work with my girls. We have been so busy and stressed at work lately, so to have a slower Saturday was a nice end to a crazy week. Then Randy and I took the girls Christmas shopping and out to eat. It was an awesome Saturday.

November 20, 2011

Today I am thankful for my husband. He not only does an unspeakable amount for me and our girls but he will drop anything to help my family. I don't think he realizes how much it means to me that he used his only days off this week to paint my mom's bedroom. We never had a strong male figure living in our home, so my mom and grandma did all of the "Dad" things around the house. Now that they are getting older...(not old Mom...just older...) it has become harder for them to do all the handy work things around the house. It has also been hard for them to hand over that kind of stuff. But Randy never hesitates to help...he paints, pulls up carpet, mows the yard, cleans the gutters...the list goes on and on. I told him tonight that he will never know how much it means to me that he not only takes care of his family but he continually takes care of mine. Man, I love this guy more everyday!
 I will leave you today with a few pics of my little turkeys before church this morning...Love these little gobblers!

                           (you can tell June Ann was not to happy about the photo shoot....)

 oh and here is a picture of my AMAZING husband I am so thankful for today  (and everyday)

this was on his 30th birthday...I like older men ;)

30 Days: Day 18

November 18, 2011

Today I am thankful for the sweet innocence of Christmas magic. I love that for the past couple of nights June Ann has sat and studied the toy catalogs. She looks and points and yells about what she wants Santa to bring. It is so cute to see her recognize toys and movies from commercials. I can't wait until Christmas morning!

                                 (ps those are not pills on the table behind her, they are Sweetarts...haha)

30 Days: Day 17

November 17, 2011

Today I am thankful for my sweet baby. She turned seven months old today. I can't believe how fast time flies! It seems like just yesterday that I looked like this

(woah)

and then WE looked like this

                                                                and now she looks like this
                                                                

She is such a little blessing and I am so thankful for her.

Happy 7 month birthday sweet Carlie!!

                                                                              

If you are interested I submitted my birth story on one of my favorite blogs Spearmint Baby and Shari posted it! Click here to read it.