I don’t know about you, but for me, January and February means a lot of cleaning out and organizing. Somehow the beginning of the new year, putting Christmas decorations back in storage and needing to fill out tax forms helps me get motivated to get a few more things squared away too.

Yesterday I re-organized my pantry. Although my pantry probably gets crazier faster than others since my two little girls like to play “shopping.” I actually hear them checking out and giving each other play money for a bag of food. I’ve also done some painting, thoroughly cleaned the bathrooms, and went through all the piles on my desk.

I’m still cleaning up files on my computer, and like I do each January, I moved last year’s sessions off my main hard drive into a back-up vault for safe keeping. As I do this, I inevitably spend time looking at photos, smiling, and thinking that time goes by way too quickly.

Anyway, before these go into the vault, I thought I’d share some of my favorite photos from 2011. There’s a little bit of everything mixed in – family, senior, maternity and wedding. Everyone is so cute — I couldn’t help posting a lot! In fact, I think I’ll have to do a totally separate post for the 2011 babies and newborn as I scoot those over to the vault later this month.

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