January through June.
We started out our year in a hotel room on the way home from California visiting family. Then we had zoo visits, parade spectating, band concerts, robotic competitions ... and more fun.
July.
We took a family trip to Colorado. It was wonderful fun in Buena Vista, then Castle Rock.
I even got to take some portraits of my beautiful nieces, Maddie and Maianna.
August through October.
The kids started school in August. Ella, her first year in school, Kindergarten, Noah, fifth grade, and Liam, eighth grade. In September we visited Fort Stanton, New Mexico on a day trip. Then at the end of that month we said goodbye to Jared as he left for Poland where he will be stationed for the next year. In October, we went to an Airshow and Ella was in her first school music concert!
November and December
November is finally when we get to see some fall colors here in the desert. We got to spend a week in Colorado for Thanksgiving, where the kids got to play in the snow and feed giraffes at the zoo.