In 2012, 2011 and 2010, I did a post about some awards that I made up and some stats about the daily posts. Last year I was just way too busy (three very little kids will do that, apparently), so I had to skip it. This year, I'm still really busy, but not quite as much as last year, so I squeezed it in. So without further ado, here are my awards and stats for 2014 in Pictures!
Best Write-Up:
Top 5 Titles (in chronological order):
- Johnson County Choppers (1/18/14) - We don't do custom motorcycles in our family, but we do do cooking.
- Bugs, Barbers, Burgers, and Bears (6/7/14) - I like alliteration, but it's hard to make it work for four words that are all applicable to a post. I lucked into this one, but I'll take it.
- Rub a Dub Dub Only Two Kids in a Tub (8/14/14) - I'm not sure if Hannah is the butcher, the baker, or the candlestick maker.
- A Family Connection in Connecticut (8/20/14) - Connection and Connecticut should not have the same first eight letters, but they do, so I made a post title based on it.
- Hooty and the Unselfish (11/16/14) - Darius Rucker approves.
Top 5 Best Photography (in chronological order):
- Pi(e) Day (3/14/14) - Even though the four pictures are too wide for the format of the blog, I had to include them, as they captured the series of Hannah's facial expressions.
- Parks and Parties (5/2/14) - As the unofficial photographer of the main event of the party, I knew I had to make sure I captured Barb's face as she first walked into the room and realized what was happening and that Mark had pulled of an amazing surprise.
- Date Day in the Park (6/20/14) - This one isn't about the photography itself, but instead is about the resulting picture and the subjects in it. That final picture of the post is a great picture showing Clara and Meghan.
- You and Me and Baby Makes Three (8/2/14) - I wanted to get a picture of Hannah walking along holding my hand, but I was the only one available to take it, which resulted in me somewhat awkwardly holding the camera down low out in front of me at a weird angle to take a picture of Hannah when I couldn't see what was on the screen.
- Springing Forward into Fall (11/2/14) - We successfully capture the time-lapse of Joshua jumping into the leaf pile.
Worst Photography:
The picture of me from Rocking Out '90s Style (8/1/14) - I only needed to get one decent picture of me at this concert, and that was the best I could do?
Top 5 Coolest Visuals (in chronological order):
- Good Friday (4/18/14) - This might be more specific to me personally, but though Meghan always looks good, she looks amazing in this picture.
- The pool picture(s) from A Day at the Beach, Plus Some Pool Time (5/5/14) - The pictures of the pool are almost psychedelic. The lighting was cool at the time in the pool, but it looked way better from up above from where we took these pictures.
- The last picture from Dads and Kids Playdate (6/14/14) - I love the view of Joshua climbing against the backdrop of the setting sun and the clouds.
- The drone picture from Fun, Family, and Fireworks (7/4/14) - Going into this year, I did not expect our blog would have a picture taken by a drone. It gives a perspective that you'd never otherwise see.
- A Beautiful Cold (11/13/14) - I love the effect the giant snowflakes create as they fall all around me.
Best Facial Expression (in chronological order):
The bear-hugging picture from Bugs, Barbers, Burgers, and Bears (6/7/14) -This makes me laugh every time I see it.
Worst Facial Expression:
It's World Cup Time! (6/22/14) - Yeah, not flattering.
The bear-hugging picture from Bugs, Barbers, Burgers, and Bears (6/7/14) -This makes me laugh every time I see it.
Worst Facial Expression:
It's World Cup Time! (6/22/14) - Yeah, not flattering.
Most Informative Post:
A Family Connection in Connecticut (8/20/14) - This blog is educational!
Saddest Post:
Best Alternative Ways to Obtain a Picture for the Blog (in chronological order):
- The weather forecast picture from Prepping for the Cold (1/4/14) - I took a screenshot from my phone to use as this picture.
- The drone picture from Fun, Family, and Fireworks (7/4/14) - David took a couple of screenshots from the video the drone took, and this was one of them.
- The dumping water picture from Ice Bucket Challenge (8/24/14) - Meghan was recording the video of the event, so she couldn't also take a picture at the moment the water splashed over me, so I played the video on my phone, paused it, and took a screenshot of that, which became this picture.
My Little Dare Devil (9/8/14) - Go back and look at this post. Meghan took these series of photos, and Google noticed they were a time-lapse and automatically created the animated GIF for her, so we included it in the post. Fun!
Biggest Blog Blunder
Check out the post from March 31st. Oh wait. You can't. That's because when going through the blog at the end of the year we realized we somehow missed a day. We're not sure how that happened, because normally we're so on top of it, but it did. That's literally the only day out of the last 1,826 days for which we do not have a post. Best Blog Trend:
This is not new to this year, but over the past couple years we've continued to have longer and longer posts with more and more pictures. We still have plenty with only one picture, and there are a few with only a few lines of description, but it's a sharp contrast from how the blog looked in 2010.
Speaking of that...
Most Words:
Making the Most of Our Final Day (5/9/14) - 931 words
Fewest Words:
Superstar! (4/24/14) - 34 words
Most Pictures:
A Pumpkin Patch Fourth Birthday for Joshua (10/12/14) - 24 pictures
Joshua and Clara's VeggieStuffins Birthday Party (11/15/14) - 24 pictures
Joshua and Clara's VeggieStuffins Birthday Party (11/15/14) - 24 pictures
Most People As the Subjects of the Picture:
| Posts by Meghan: | 211 |
| Posts by Jason: | 153 |
In each post we tag the people in it, as well as our own pets. Here’s the breakdown on the number of posts in which each person or furry friend appeared, among those who made at least two appearances. Ties are broken by the alphabet, not by how much we love you.
| Joshua | 248 |
| Clara | 220 |
| Hannah | 205 |
| Jason | 135 |
| Meghan | 86 |
| Terrence | 20 |
| Benjamin | 19 |
| Natalie | 18 |
| Ron | 18 |
| Peg | 15 |
| Julie | 14 |
| Bob | 13 |
| Jean | 13 |
| Andrew | 11 |
| Barb | 9 |
| Mark | 8 |
| Halie | 8 |
| Joanna | 7 |
| Brent | 5 |
| Matt | 5 |
| Michelle | 5 |
| Christine | 4 |
| Hadley | 4 |
| Jason K. | 4 |
| Jim | 4 |
| Abby | 3 |
| David | 3 |
| Dylan | 3 |
| Elle | 3 |
| Hudson | 3 |
| Sam | 3 |
| Tucker | 3 |
| Callie | 2 |
| Deb | 2 |
| Jason H. | 2 |
| Kirk | 2 |
| Oliver | 2 |
Sadly, Alex only had 1, so he didn't even make the cut. We see him at night, but he tends to make himself scarce when the kids are around.
And as we did last year, this year we tagged each post with the state where the picture was taken if it was somewhere
other than Kansas, solely so I could do this exact list, because I’m
curious about dumb things like this. Here’s the breakdown:
There you have it!
| Kansas | 306 |
| Missouri | 21 |
| Utah | 4 |
| Alabama | 3 |
| Minnesota | 3 |
| Nevada | 3 |
| Colorado | 2 |
| Michigan | 2 |
| Texas | 2 |
| Connecticut | 1 |
| Arizona | 1 |
| Arkansas | 1 |
| Illinois | 1 |
| Kentucky | 2 |
| Oregon | 1 |
| Ohio | 1 |
There you have it!
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