Top picks of 2012-From the Miller Family

A while back I started having our blog printed as a book at the end of each year. We decided a few years ago it would be a fun tradition to post our top picks each year so in the future we could look back and remember a bit what our life was like.  So...here it goes...our top picks for 2012.

MOVIES

The Avengers

Les Miserables

The Dark Knight Rises

The Hunger Games

Pitch Perfect

TV SHOWS

(of course we still love several of the shows we picked last year, but these are the tops of our new shows :) 

Castle

New Girl

How I Met Your Mother

Breaking Bad

Happy Endings

BOOKS

Memoirs of a Geisha-Arthur Golden

The Maze Runner-James Dashner

Gone Girl-Gillian Flynn 

Tiger's Curse Series-Colleen Houch

A Thousand Splendid Suns-Khaled Hosseini

The Holidays 2012

Halloween

Brenna was a LaLaLoopsy and Adria was a monster.

Zach and I were Jasmine and Aladin at our annual murder mystery party with our friends. 

 Thanksgiving

We spent the first half of the week in Nevada with Zach's dad and the end of the week with his mom in Utah.  We had lots of fun!

Christmas

 decorating the tree

 Christmas Eve dinner (we didn't manage to get a picture of my dad even though he spent Christmas with us!) We had Santa strawberries, jello Christmas trees, snowman mashed potatoes, and more!

 Christmas PJ's.

 Reading "Twas the Night Before Christmas"

 Carrots for the reindeer. 

 Visions of sugarplums...

Christmas morning!

 Zach modeling my new Snuggie!

 Christmas at Grandma's house!

New Years

 

Adria's first birthday party

I can't believe my baby is a year old already!  We had a really fun monster themed party for her with our awesome friends and family. 

 My mom decorated the bathroom door like a monster.  Brenna and some of the other kids were too scared to go potty the whole night.  :) 

 Awesome grandma and grandpa Mower came up for the party.

 The party favors. 

 Grandma Mellie with the birthday girl. 

 The birthday cake. 

 My mom helping the kids do a monster craft.  Isn't she so cool?

 Opening birthday presents. 

 Adria eating her birthday cake.