Post #52 of personal project 52 weeks.

This marks the end of the 52 week project. Hooray (for finishing it)! Thanks to all the readers for reading, commenting and encouraging me along the way. I had weeks where I thought I wouldn’t finish this project. So thank you all for keeping me accountable and reading a little bit about our life.

The goals of this project were to create 52 photo pages for an album and to get a sense of our life for an entire year. Something with words. None of my albums have words. I didn’t know how it would turn out and I didn’t know what I would share. But I wanted to share the everyday: messy floors, snotty faces, dirty windows, the foods we ate, the clothes we wore, the places we visited, the activities we participated in and the joys and blessings of our relationships with each other and for God.

* The wagon. A $5 garage sale find is our constant companion wherever we go. At least Mattias thinks it should be. Increasingly possessive of this mode of transportation, he requests that it’s taken everywhere we go. Including church.

* This photo series is a typical after-dinner walk in the Louwerse household. We always take the wagon. And I’m fairly certain the entire neighbourhood is aware who this wagon belongs to. The plastic wheels are incredibly loud on the concrete and asphalt. If Art takes the boys on his own, I can hear them coming at the top of the street.

* They get into the soccer field and Noah wants to run. Mattias wants to throw sand.

* Noah is chasing his shadow.

* The slide at Betty Gilbert.

* Monkey bars.

* Then off to the current favorite location.

* The bike park. We could spend hours here. Up and down the boardwalks and paths. And the hills are a blast.

* Art loves to race the wagon over the bike bumps. Mattias loves it.