1. Happy New Year! Here’s a look back at 2008 and the people, places, and events that made it special. Devan, Sheila, Sam, Nathan & Jack

2. Kicked off 2008 in Look Out Mountain with our dear friends

3. Annie – hard to keep up with . . .

4. Friends since they were 2, the puppies are growing up . . .

5. . . . and their moms are aging . . . gracefully?

6. Claire & Sam

7. A Warm Fire

8. January – Lacrosse – Go Sam!

9. SPRING Kentucky & northwest Tennessee

10. Celebrating Nathan’s April Birthday with Papa and Grandma In Bradenton

11. Even an Easter Egg Hunt can be filled with testosterone!

12. A tour of the capital

13. An amazing teacher

14. And fun classmates

15. Date night with Mom

16. Cousins

17. Brothers

18. Big Hearted Nathan

19. Nathan’s wonderful Ms. Walker

20. The speech contest winner

21. Spring Baseball . . .

22. A mother’s day cake.

23. Summer Annual Veatch Beach Week

24. Beach Bums

25. Cousin Kate – our princess

26. The forgotten Florida Coast is our refuge.

27. Peaceful

28. Calm

29. A gift.

30. Fourth of July in our back yard- all the cousins

31. A flag flyin’time

32. Nephew Jordan & great-nephew Gabe .

33. Sam (in green) at YL Camp

34. Life is good!

35. Too much rain in September . . .

36. . . .brought rain for Devan’s flowers in July.

37. . . .flowers for nephew Jed to sniff.

38. Reunion plans brought long-ago friends back together . . .

39. My amazing friends

40. And the most amazing reunion committee ever.

41. Fall, FSU Football, Fun

42. Friends

43. We live for football in the fall.

44. And play yard ball with gusto.

45. The greatest coaches ever!

46. Our Halloween Block Party . . .

47. That even Steve Erckle attended.

48. Lovin’ my job

49. Wherever it takes me.

50. Skyler, Jack, and Cody

51. Homecoming –lookin’ fine

52. And havin’ fun

53. Thanksgiving in Tally

54. Rolled up the rugs and danced,

55. Played,

56. And enjoyed family

57. Christmas is coming

58. And Jack is a serious Joseph

59. When he’s not being a carrot-nosed snowman

60. Family – you gotta love ‘em

61. Sweet Aunt Virginia and Phil

62. Can’t help that my handsome daddy is a gator!

63. A Christmas full of joy

64. . Happy 2009 from the Veatch Family

65. Our wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it, To your dreams stay big, and your worries stay small, You never need to carry more then you can hold, And while you're out there getting where you're getting to, We hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too, Yeah, this, is our wish.