Grateful for Another Year

2011 was a GREAT year!  My Christmas card this year even stated the Top Ten of 2011 in the Hahn family.  It wasn't difficult composing this list, but it was difficult to find a photo for each of the wonderful experiences we had this past year. Somewhere along the way, with all of our new technology, we've gotten worse about capturing snapshots of some of the best of times.  I've always been a photograph person, not to have my own taken so much, but to capture photographs and be able to look back at them year after year. So I decided that I'm going to make a more conscious effort to capture the moments that mean the most.  And this probably means not capturing so many "staged" moments. Not that a staged photo isn't nice, but I often think those are the photos that make everyone think, " Oh, her life looks so easy." or "Oh they are the perfect family." Reality is, nobody's life is easy, and no family is perfect!
So here is the first moment from 2012 that I wanted to capture to remind me everyday how lucky I am, and how much I appreciate the fact that my husband has taught  me to take time to relax, enjoy silence, and just be!