Happy New Year!

We just got back from CAMPING. Yes, that's exactly the way we wanted to spent our last 2 days of 2009 & our first day of 2010!

Just our little family out in Burnt Corral Campground...
playing around with Mr. Tate as photographer (He's getting really good! Can you believe he took this first picture of Bryan and I?)

Drinking HOT chocolate (Santa even brought me the sugar free kind)

Looking for shells (what Tate wanted to be doing the ENTIRE time).

Then LOADING up his pockets with them until they were BLARGING (Tate's new word-he means bulging)

Taking them back to the campsite to count them all.

Skipping Rocks

Doing Dishes (can't escape that even when camping).

Loading & shooting the BB Gun.

And of course the loud scary one too!

Fishing on the last day of the year (before the license expires).

Or just playing with the worms (whichever is more fun)

Playing some good ole baseball

Roasting marshmallows on sticks (because we forgot the roasters)

And eating them... in smores of course

Climbing Trees

Hiking to see some ancient cliff dwellings

They were pretty awesome!

Stopping to check out the damn

And to take pictures of some funky looking cactus

then Mr. Tate had to stop and use the PAY PHONE because he thought that it was the coolest thing in the whole world. (He called Grandma)

Driving off into the beautiful AZ sunset.

I can hardly believe that 2009 is done and over. It's been an interesting year... Lots of ups and downs which are all documented here on the blog. Project 365 (my picture a day) has been fun and challenging at times, but definitely worth it. No, I'm not going to be continuing it this next year, but that doesn't mean the blogging will stop. It will most likely slow down a bit though...

Thank you for spending 2009 with me!!!