And here we are. I hadn’t decided if this book would go to Christmas Day or The 31st. But it turned out the decision was made for me since my book ran out of pages right on Christmas Day. I like the idea of going only until the 25th because it gives me that one week to rest before the new year starts.

So here’s Day 24. The front is our photobooth photos from Tintin and the movie tickets.

and the back was a photo so I just added a few photos of the kids opening their Christmas Eve presents and called it a day:

The next day was our Christmas Morning Breakfast as it’s become tradition for me to put this in the journal:

and the back was the very last page in my book so I put a few of my favorite shots from Christmas Day and made sure to end the book with my word to remember.

and that’s the end of this book. Here’s what it looks like all full:

Here’s the front:

and the back:

and there we go. Another year, another December Daily.

Here we come 2012!

And we’re on to day twenty-two:

David reading out loud to me. I wrote the Little House on the Prairie but it was actually The Little House in the Big Woods. I love listening to him read to me.

i also love these little stickers. Put them all over my book this year.

another photo. added just a little my mind’s eye chipboard on there.

Nathaniel’s been lining things up a lot lately so I was compelled to capture it. I just love how cute he is. He loves when I photograph them.

and on the back is the little boy reading a catalog. I love the little feet that stick out.

and that’s it for Day 22.

So here we go. There are a lot of pages from Legoland and not much of the two days we spent in the car.

I wrote up the story of how we came to decide to go:

i tucked the tickets inside and wrote a little story about getting to the hotel.

the next page is early morning Nathaniel and Jake and how they watched the planes:

and then a simple spread with both my boys smiling:

then right outside Legoland both us and the sign:

and a page with a flap where i wrote about how kids can play legos while we wait in line:

here it is with the flap open

the next spread is more photos of the kids and the park.

and then more. I love the fabric on the right which is why I didn’t cover it all.

the next page is all the photos of the lego models I took while there and the kids playing in a car.

and the other side of the spread explains the models a bit and then one of the boys sitting as we wait for the shuttle to come pick us up. David’s there under the flap.

The next spread is just a tree photo (from last year, it was in the book when i made it.) and a Starbucks sign that I liked with some My Mind’s Eye stickers. The right side was actually a baseball card holder page but I didn’t feel like using it for now.

and then finally for today, my rings came so I took a photo of my finger.

here it is with the flap open and some journaling about my word:

Phew. All caught up!

And here we are for day fourteen. This month is going too too fast.

Here’s the next spread:

The left side was just a photo so I only added stickers:

the right side is one photo of each kid and how grateful I am for each:

and on the back is a little story about our little deer and how much Nathaniel loves it:

And that’s it for day fourteen.

Monday was all about following up on Sunday.

Nathaniel presented his board at school so I added that to the following page from yesterday:

and then I wrote about family night where we all build legos together, even though it was on Sunday:

And that’s it for day twelve.

And here we are for days nine and ten. Sorry for the delay.

Friday was mostly picture-less. I found a photo of the movie we went to see, added the tickets and a set of photo booth photos we took when there and that was page nine.

The next day had a lot of photos and pages. Short on words this time but that’s ok. I started with my favorite photo of the three boys and our trip’s name:

the next page was a photo so I just added some words.

here’s the spread to another view, this also has the right side page with tickets from the event, a photo of Nathaniel and a picture I took of the lunar eclipse that morning at 6am:

the back has more photos from the train.

and then I added my favorite photo of Nathaniel looking out the window:

and on the back my favorite of David looking out the window:

The next page was another photo so I added some more words.

and finally another photo I took this weekend that I just love love loved. A few words for this one and my Friday and Saturday pages were done. Still working on Sunday.

And that’s it for days nine an ten.