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This December I participated in my first "photo-a-day" challenge on Instagram.
This one was hosted by one of my favorite boutiques, Giddy Up Glamour.
I had so much fun doing this and will definitely do it again...and to make it even better, I just found out that I was one of two winners and won a $50 gift certificate to their boutique!

 

 

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Happy New Year!

I'm keeping my goals list short and sweet this year...

Happy 2013...may it be your best year yet!

2012 - A Year In Review

{January}

~ I was promoted to Assistant Vice President - Marketing

~ I spent a lot of time on the road attending trade shows and conventions for work

 

{February}

~ We found out that we were expecting

~ Lucy and Lacy ran away from home...and returned

 

 

{March}

~ The Little Lady turned two



 

{April}

~We announced that we were expecting

 

 

~ The Little Lady got a pony

 

 

{May}

~ We found out that Baby G was a boy

 

 

 

{June}

~ Branding season

 

{July}

~ I turned 30, we celebrated by taking the Little Lady to the waterpark



 

{August}

~ John Wayne and I celebrated our 10-year-anniversary

 

 

{September}

~ We prepared for the arrival of Baby Gunner

 

 

{October}

~ Gunner William Golding made his appearance October 10th

 

 

{November}

~ Family pictures

 

 

~ Thanksgiving

 

 

~ Santa visit

 

 

{December}

~ A wonderful Christmas season

 

 

We were blessed over and over again in 2012, it truly was one of the best years so far.

 

Wishing you a very happy and prosperous 2013!

Snow!!!

After all that Christmas, I was exhausted.

So I stayed home from work the next day and the Little Lady and I played in the snow!!!

 

Why I took 7 billion pictures this Christmas...

Three words: Tressie.Laine.Golding.

 

Gunner probably feels fortunate he survived.

 

 

Hmmm...remove the problem and you get this!

 

 

At her finest...Christmas morning.

Yes, her Dad is struggling to keep hold of her.

Yes, my face is shiny with sweat from chasing her down.

Yes, Merry Christmas.

 

 

But maybe she comes by it naturally...Papa!!!

 

Christmas Day...the rest of the story

This would be the point in the day that I became real lazy and stopped taking pictures.
All of these are courtesy of my Mom.

We always do Christmas lunch at my Grandpa & Grandma Hammer's house.
All of my little cousins were home from college, so the whole crazy group was there.

 

From there, we always drive nearly 100 miles, to have Christmas dinner at my Grandpa & Grandma Chisman's house.

 

Makes for a crazy day, but we are truly blessed to be able to spend it with so much family.

 

 

My Grandma, a very talented seamstress, surprised me and my cousins each with a quilt.

Aren't they pretty?!?

 

 

This would also be the point in my Christmas blogging that I became real lazy...

 

The end!

 

This concludes Christmas 2012 for the Goldings!

Christmas at Gaga and Papa's House

After we opened the presents from Santa at our house, it was time to go to Gaga and Papa's house for breakfast and to open stockings and all the rest of the presents.

 

 

The Little Lady was a complete pill all day long when it was picture time.

 

 

On the other hand, this little guy had perfect little smiles for us.

 

 

The best we could do!

 

 

"My presents."  She knew that all of the presents from her Dad and I, and Gaga and Papa, were wrapped in this princess paper.

 

 

Checking out his puppy that Gaga and Papa gave him in his stocking.

 

 

The highlights of her Christmas were this Barbie car {watch out world!} from her Daddy and I, and her Rapunzel baby doll from Gaga and Papa.

 

 

The day after Christmas when she woke up, she asked me if she could drive her car in the snow?

Sorry babe, no 4-wheel-drive!