I never do a best-of- the- year post because, in all honesty, Christmas is much too HUGE in our home and it requires tons of untold gusto and sweat.   So there never seems to be any valuable, or non-Xmas, time to get such a post together, which would be suitably primed for the new year.  

I then blink and, without warning, we're suddenly bidding February a heartfelt fairwell  and then, of course (caught off-guard), it's already much too late.

Well, this year I am doing a lot of things much more differently and, seeing as I've been given  an extra day, with it being leap-year, I thought why not, before we advance full steam into the new wedding season.

As you would have gathered from this wee blog, I'm not much for resolutions, but, there is something incredibly gratifying about looking back and reflecting on all those great little moments that added up to one fantastic year.

Happy LEAP YEAR... and now for some of my favourites from the 2011 season: