Last year was such an amazing year. I recently took the time to look through some of the photos I took of our little family last year & in doing so I realized just how much we actually did! In the hopes of keeping this post from getting too ridiculously long, I’ve decided to just showcase one moment from each month of 2012.

Last January, Shane, his Nomi {Justin’s mom} & I went to see Disney On Ice: Toy Story 3. I wasn’t sure how he’d do {he was about 28 months old at the time} but he really surprised me by being completely captivated the whole time. He still talks about the show sometimes, a full year later.

In February, this photo happened. Shane & I are lucky enough to have an amazing group of friends that we’ve known since he was a tiny tot. We see them almost every week, so the fact that they were hanging out in the photo above isn’t the memorable part- it’s the whole holding hands thing. Totally cute. Also, I’m pretty sure each one of these kids has grown half a foot this year.

In March, we took Shane to the theater for the first time when we went to see The Lorax. He did great & only got antsy toward the end, but quickly started paying attention again. He didn’t do as well the next month with Chimpanzee, despite his huge love of monkeys, but I think that was because it wasn’t animated. He did really good when we went to see Wreck-It Ralph at the drive-in in November, though!

In April, Shane got to take a ride on Thomas the Train. He only vaguely knew who Thomas was at that point, but after riding on him, Shane became totally obsessed with Thomas, who is still a major fixture in our lives.

In May, Shane had his very first flight when we all flew out to Nebraska on Justin’s birthday weekend to celebrate his grandma’s {Justin’s grandma/Shane’s great-grandma} 90th birthday!

June was a month full of park visits & dirty faces, frozen yogurt &swimming. Nothing huge happened this month, although it was the first full month that I was home with Shane again full-time after quitting my job in mid-May.

In July, my sister & her kids came to visit.While they were here, Shane went to Disneyland for the very first time! It’s a 4 hour drive from here, but it’s a lot closer than my sister usually is in Wisconsin.

I have a ton of pictures that I could have used from August that don’t include Shane squinting his eyes, including photos of him unwrapping his birthday gifts. But this photo was taken the day before his birthday, just minutes before Justin proposed to me, right on that beach.

In September, we learned that Shane is terrified of Chuck E Cheese when we tried to take him to a birthday party there. He climbed up me to my head &screamed like crazy until I got him outside, and then I tried to erase the pain a tiny bit with some froyo.

In October, we went to the pumpkin patch where I took this adorable photo of my boys!

In November, our Elf on the Shelf brought Shane a special North Pole Breakfast. Our elf got Shane like 7 different types of cookies &donuts & cinnamon rolls, but Shane put nothing but fudge covered Oreos on his plate. {Don’t worry, he only ate like 2 of them.}

December of course brought Christmas along with it, and with that came so many amazing memories. This picture shows his excitement over his gifts, but there was so much more behind it. From his newfound Christmas carol obsession to driving through Glittering Lights to making cookies, this really was a magical holiday season for us.

2012 was a year to remember, and 2013 is already set to beat it with our upcoming wedding {&subsequent honeymoon}!

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What was your favorite memory of 2012?

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