A year in review

For me, looking back on the previous year is good for my heart.  I look at the pictures and I don't see any pictures of myself nagging the kids to clean up and go to bed.  There's no pictures of sibling rivalry or name calling...just warm memories.  After a while, I tend to only remember what I have pictures of and I hope my kids are the same way.  I hope they remember going to the pumpkin patch and boogie boarding at the beach and forget about me getting frustrated for having to wait for someone to get his shoes on because we're running late...again.  I hope they remember the time I poured a million Legos all over the floor so they could experience making snow angels in their favorite toys.

I had the boys do some looking back on the past year and write down some goals as a part of a New Year's Eve activity. Here's what they wrote:

Kyle in 2012
favorite color: purple
favorite movie: Star Wars
Favorite food: Pasta
Favorite activity: homework
Fave book: The Big Book of How
Fave song: Gangnam Style

Greatest lesson learned in 2012: Not to jump on furniture (that's how I knocked out my tooth)
Favorite Memory of 2012: When Mom gave me my tricycle (??)

Looking forward to 2013, I want to learn: How to load games on the iPad
I want to get better at: Basketball
My biggest goal for 2013 is: to get better at playing Skylanders.

(not the kind of goal I had hoped for...)

Barrett in 2012:
favorite color: blue
favorite movie: Three Musketeers
Favorite food: Pasta
Favorite activity: tooting
Fave book: Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Fave song: Gangnam Style

Greatest lesson learned in 2012: I am good at math
Favorite Memory of 2012: When I got Skylanders for Christmas

Looking forward to 2013, I want to learn: How to do multiplication
I want to get better at: math
My biggest goal for 2013 is: to get The Malevolence (from Star Wars) Lego set

(ugh. are all kids this materialistic? I wish he had said "save up for the Malevolence" at least...)

Anyway, here's a little graphic year in review!