in case you weren’t aware or haven’t ever seen, i have a pretty incredible family. my husband finley and i have three young kids, who are obviously not shy from the camera. we pack a lot into our days. from kindergarten & dress up to playing soccer & star wars to eating fruit snacks & napping, our life is full and blessed. these are a few of my favorite images and memories from this past year. they all make me smile 
i was able to pull of an 80’s party for my birthday back in february. all of our friends dressed up and we had some dancing, picture taking, and 80’s trivia. my two sisters (kym & martha [in-law]) really rocked it out here. my facebook album 88mph (from back to the future of course) has all the rest.
here’s my husband finley and our kids getting their snow trampoline on. i love it that elle is getting thrown around. funny that we are about to get blasted again with the snow again on Christmas Eve!
our little maye turned one this summer. she is an absolute doll. she has the most amazing “cheese” whenever we say smile for the camera.
a group of our friends all got together for a lake day this summer. finley and elle are both crusing along on the wakeboard. thanks Paul for teaching us that trick. maybe this summer they’ll be doing it on their own!
ahh, the cousins. we love our cousins. poor silas is always outnumbered whenever the Roddas come to town. the two big girls are 2 days apart. it is so fun to have all these girls gathered around for a tea party and some sprinkler fun!
we got all dressed up for “cow appreciation day” at chick-fil-a. my husband’s goal was to get as much free food as possible, so we went all out. the ladies who rang up our order said that we were some of the most committed customers of the whole day. my kids = total cuteness!
this is probably the picture of the year for our family. we are going to order a bunch of new pictures for the house soon, and this one will be huge. elle and maye went to the other room and when i inquired as to how they were doing, elle responded that she was “working on an art project.” obviously! they came back around the corner, both so proud of their accomplishments. elle for her fantastic artwork, and maye for being such a great subject. it generated 36 comments on facebook back in august! this is an all time family classic.
our kids got to go on “fall retreat” with the student ministry over labor day weekend. they loved the slip-n-slide and the blob the most.
finley and i got to take a trip to chicago in october so that he could run in the chicago marathon. it was incredible to see over 33,000 people run in that race. it was brutally cold that weekend, but we pulled off a little self-timer fun as we were walking along the banks of lake michigan. this one is going in our bedroom for sure.
what a fun treat to watch kids grow up and pray that they love each other and turn out to be loving adults. halloween was such a blast and the kids turned it on once again on our way to the school carnival. i can’t wait to look back in 10 years and remember all these fun memories.
by brooke
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