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(What? You didn’t think I was actually going to stop creating curated monthly home movies of our family with the end of 2021, did you? Of course not!)
Happy 2022!!
A brand new year full of exciting new potential & possibilities!
January is a FULL birthday month in our house! Derrick’s Dad’s (0:09), my Dad (2:04), my sister Amy (3:54), and of course: BRAELYNN!! Our sweet Braelynn turned SEVEN years old at the end of January (and I still can’t quite believe it).
There are a few snippets from Braelynn’s birthday in our family film, but I put all of Braelynn’s birthday PARTY clips into their own film – you can go watch it here: https://youtu.be/q2HfEs7WfUM
Thankfully, along with a bunch of birthdays, January also brought a bunch of SNOW! The kids have been in heaven all month after two separate snow-storms. Unfortunately, neither storm brought “snowman snow”, but that didn’t stop Braelynn from building snowmen “piles” – and we were able to create a big tunnel with the 8″ of the snow the second storm dropped on us!
Life moves too fast & the best way I know to preserve it is to snatch these fleeting moments before they fly away & bottle them up so they are never lost.
Moments of note this month:
(0:18) Driving Papa’s John Deere tractor on New Year’s Day
(1:03) Our first snow of the season!
(2:44) Braelynn set up a wedding & talked me into being the officiant
(4:24) Leander isn’t really a big fan of ice cream, but Abby is
(4:31) Snow storm number two!
(6:14) Leander looking handsome!
(6:51) Braelynn’s birthday celebrations begin
(8:02) We are OBSESSED with Magna-tiles – https://amzn.to/3L20S2R
(8:10) And we love Bluey too: https://amzn.to/3L3PMu6
Just in case you’ve missed what I’m doing – I decided that I wanted to create a curated “home video” for our family every month (remember those old “home movies” our families used to create? with the giant video recorders that an entire VHS tape fit in?) Those videos were fantastic, but if you’ve ever sat down to watch one (does anyone even own a VHS player anymore?) you very quickly realize that you do a lot of “fast-forwarding”.
So, my goal, is to take all the little videos I take of our family over the course of a month & create a short (my goal is to be around 10 minutes) video of my favorite snippets. I am SO excited to finally have a dedicated place to chronicle my family videos & keep them safe & accessible.
Enjoy a little peek into what our January looked like!
PS: don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to my YouTube channel while you’re at it!
