Project 365

 2013 is going to be a year of growth for me.  I want to learn and I want to be creative.  One of my projects for the year is a Photo Project 365.  This means I have to take a photo everyday!! They will not all be the most amazing photos, but my hope is for this to push me to get more creative and to learn more about my camera and my own abilities.  So far, I have done at least one photo everyday, even when I was sick and didn't know what to photograph, I just got something. I realize this is going to leave me with an overload of photos (even more so than usual), so I might try to put together a "Project Life," which is really just a big scrapbook for the year. These are just some of the photos I've taken so far this year. 

To see more, and to join the project yourself, check out my Flickr page!  Flickr Project 365

The Best of 2012

Sometimes at the end of a year, you'll look back and think "I didn't really do much this year."  This is what I thought when I first started thinking about 2012.  What really changed?  I didn't think anything did.  I feel the same.  These are the times, especially, I am so grateful for all the photos I take throughout the year.  I don't know if I'd remember anything without my photos, and maybe that's not a good thing, but I'm happy I love photography so much that it's just my natural way to document life in photographs.  I realized, through my photos, that so many great things happened this year! I was going to try to post all of my favorite photos of the year, but turns out, I have a lot of favorites! (Which is a good thing.)  

What good happened in 2012??

Let's start with the start of 2012: Two of my good friends got engaged and we were all there to see it:

 Celebrating so many weddings:

 

 Welcoming new additions to our families:

 

Enjoying time with all of our family and seeing how much we've grown:

 Having a blast with awesome friends:

 Spending my TENTH year with the boy I truly love:
 This year we: 

•  Toured Yuengling Brewery.
• Survived a hurricane.
• Moved in with 2 of the best people ever and learned how to restore furniture.
• Learned how to bake.
• Witness the shuttle Discovery's Final Flight.
• I got my first tattoo.
• Vacationed in Harper's Ferry, WV.
• I took my first Ferris Wheel ride.

and so much more...

 The very best thing to happen in 2012? I got my sister back!