Two of my most favorite pictures of the year.  I love the top picture with all of the matchy "Where's Waldo" sweaters.  These kiddos are all BFF'S.  I absolutely love the bottom picture.  It was just a snap shot taken by Nicole and it just so happens that everyone is looking forward and smiling (Emma doesn't count).  The tree in the background is perfect and it's right before our favorite Christmas party at the Country Club.  I love my crew:)

 Warnick Family Christmas Pictures 2012

There's not a better landscape for picture taking than at the Warnick farm.  Photographers from all over the valley use their yard for pictures.  We had a photographer come take pictures of all of us in the apple orchard and they were fabulous.  Well....the pictures were lost??? Yes, the photographer deleted them all from her computer.  It was awful and poor June was so upset.  Luckily on this beautiful winter day we were all together and Sheila's friend came and took a couple shots of us and then Nicole edited them.  I think they look great!  They weren't what we planned on but they still look really pretty, especially with the snowfall.

DECEMBER MISC.

Is it obvious that Emma loves her Dad? 

She's 14 months and still trying to figure out the walking thing.

The middle picture is to show how dirty her yellow sleepers got while helping me out at Real Deals during the holiday season.  Aren't they awful?

NOVEMBER

So, once again I can't blame anyone but myself for my lack of picture taking.  I stink at it!  But I happen to have two that are actually important so here it goes.  The first picture is of Abigail and Collin helping me make Grandma Junes famous stuffing.  We are using the handy dandy food grinder that June bought us.  It's important that I teach my kids (even the boys) how to make the Warnick stuffing and the Hooper sweet potatoes.  Traditions even come in food.  The picture on the left is Carter singing a solo in the school Thanksgiving play.  Matt and I had no idea he was even doing this until we got there.  That's a boy for ya.  He did so good.  Again, one of those proud mama moments.  I love my kids:)

 

OCTOBER MISC...

I can not figure out for the life of me where our Halloween pictures went for this year.  Luckily Heidi texted me this picture otherwise I wouldn't have proof that we even had Halloween.  Abigail was a nerd, Carter was Bain from Batman and Collin was a green Ninja.  Emma was nothing because she was with me in Utah working for Papa and Gloria.  It was actually kind of a bummer October and Halloween.  I needed the extra money and Papa and Gloria needed a lot of help with their move so I left a couple of weekends in October to go help them.  It was such a blessing for us but a bummer that I missed my kids Halloween events.  I honestly got home just in time to take them Trick-or-Treating.  This picture is of Emma and I in Utah visiting my Grandma Elene for lunch between a cleaning session-haha

FOOTBALL FINALLY!!!!

Carter was counting down the days until he could play football.  His dad has got him so excited and pumped to play.  I actually don't know who's looking forward to it more.  Carter is super athletic and a great little tackler.  Right when I saw him in his uniform for the first time I thought to myself, "This kid was built for this game."  I didn't get a lot of pictures because once again my phone camera isn't the best and they are always in motion-obviously.  Carter plays Safety and loves it.  I think he would also like to try out the line or Defensive End if not this year then in the future.  I'm excited to see him grow in this sport.  I'm not going to lie, his team was not very good.  It was their first year though and they were all still trying to figure it out.  Matt was able to coach defense for a couple of games and loved it!  I have a feeling this will be my first of many seasons to come:)

 

BASKETBALL 2012

Abigail, Carter and Collin all played basketball this year.  I'm sick about the fact that I don't have the pictures of Collin.  He was actually the one who loved it the most and looked forward to it every week and I have no memories of it:(. Abigail doesn't really love basketball but all of her friends were playing so she thought, "What the heck!"  I think she would probably be even better than she already is but she's on a co-ed team and the boys are awful at passing to the girls.  She would be wide open and yelling to pass to her and they would completely overlook her.  It drove me nuts!  I hope it didn't ruin her decision on playing next year.  Carter came leaps and bounds this year in basketball.  He is so good at driving the ball down the court and passing.  He definitely is an athlete because it comes so natural to him.  His team did really well this year.  Collin was a monster on the court.  He is so stinkin aggressive that he will succeed at whatever sport he plays.  He is so intense which in normal life can be a little frustrating but for sports it's great!  He is super coordinated and a fast little bugger.  It was super fun watching him play.  I am just so glad that my kids did not get my athletic ability.  I think sports and teams create very confident kids and I am completely insecure when it comes to many things but sports is for sure at the top!!!