Picture A Day - The Ultimate Guide

Picture a Day Video - 2022

In 2009 I started trying to take a picture every day as a life documentation project.  Every year since I have attempted to take and document a picture for every day of the year.  And I put it into a slideshow at the end of the year with music.

Over the past few years I have been trying to move all my videos to youtube.  I used to host them elsewhere but ran into copyright infringement issues due to using other people's music in the videos and then posting that on the internet.  Youtube mostly allows me to still host my videos here, as long as I don't try to make money off of them, which I was never intending to do.  Of all the videos over the years, there were still two that the copyright owner does not allow to be shown on youtube at all - both Beatles songs.  I had to rebuild both the offending slideshows (from 2009 and 2013) with alternative music choices.  Copyrights and copyright owners change over the years so hoping my original videos will be available again someday. 

So, to make these slideshows available on the internet again, I retooled a bit, many I don't have great copies of anymore, so they may be grainy.  But we can enjoy what there is.

By request I made a slideshow of pictures from 2005-2007 - its kind of boring, but its linked below as well.

Here is playlist on youtube of all slideshow videos - picture a day and a few others I made
Full P365 Playlist 

And videos by year

P365 2022 (above)

P365 2021

P365+1 2020

P365 2019

P365 2018

P365 2017

P365+1 2016

P365 2015

2015 Fast Version

P365 2014

P365 2013

P365+1 2012

P365 2011

2011 Fast Version

P365 2010

P365 2009

Back in Okinawa (2009)

2008 (Not picture a day)

2005 - 2007

The Song List

Songs I've already used for slideshows

2022

Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears

Island in the Sun - Weezer

You Get What You Give - New Radicals

2021

The Promise - When in Rome

One Fine Day - The Chiffons

We're Going to Be Friends - The White Stripes

2020
Come On, Get Happy - The Partridge Family
Happy Together - The Turtles
Come Sail Away - Styx

2019
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - The Smiths
Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
Just Like Heaven - The Cure

2018
Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
When Can I See You Again - Owl City

2017
Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers
Signed, Sealed Delivered - Stevie Wonder
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now - Starship

2016
Go West - The Village People
Waterloo - ABBA
Come and Get Your Love - Redbone

2015
Love You Madly - Cake
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Best Day of My Life - American Authors

What Does the Fox Say - Ylvis (Fast Version)

2014
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses
Destination Unknown - Missing Persons

2013

Remake

I've Just Seen a Face - Paul McCartney and Wings (Live)

Fireflies - Owl City 

Songbird - Eva Cassidy 

Original (currently blocked for copyright)
I've Just Seen a Face - Beatles 

Fireflies - Owl City 

Songbird - Eva Cassidy 

2012 

I've Been Everywhere - Johnny Cash 

Home - Phillip Phillips 

Home - Michael Buble 

2011

Centerfield - John Fogerty 

Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) - Edison Lighthouse 

Pop Goes the World - Men Without Hats (Fast Version) 

2010

Friday I'm in Love - The Cure 

A Little Respect - Erasure 

Pretty Much the Worse Video Ever Made (Dialogue Clip) - Napoleon Dynamite 

2009

Remake

Our House - Madness 

Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode

Original (currently blocked for copyright)

Our House - Madness 

Ob Bla Di Ob Bla Da (Life Goes On) - The Beatles

Back to Okinawa Slideshow

Japan - Presidents of the United States of America 

2008  - Okinawa Year Slideshow

Send Me on My Way - Rusted Root 

Let My Love Open the Door - Pete Townshend

2005 - 2007

If I Had $1,000,000 - Barenaked Ladies

December

It was a great December - here we are at the downtown tree lighting.  Anna sang with the school choir at the event - we saw lots of friends and got to enjoy some hot cocoa!!

We went to a local tree farm in Washougal to cut a Christmas tree

Here we are with our chosen tree

Looking for the just right tree

Riding the tractor with our tree

Enjoying some cocoa after our cold tree hunt

The tree was tall!  But luckily so is Matthew.  First year one of our kids could get the star on the tree without help.  I didn't get a lot of pictures of us decorating because I was feeling pretty stressed finding all the right boxes in the garage!  In the end stuff got decorated.

We got a little bit of snow

Emma's reindeer art - a local artist guided the girl scouts through a festive art project.

Another girl scout event the girls did an ornament exchange - Emma got this adorable cat ornament

We went out to dinner at Gustav's (a German restaurant).  We don't go out to eat that much so it was fun.

Kids playing outside, even in the cold.

John's choir performance

He did great and had free hot cocoa

Anna had a big choir performance as well - I didn't get a pic

Making Christmas treats!!

Emma made this candy Christmas train at school

And she helped me make the gingerbread

Decorating out gingerbread houses

Our fun houses all done!!

Lots of work

A lot of us got sick over Christmas break - there was lots of coughing and napping and, for me, Nyquil

We played lots of board games

Did some puzzles and watched lots of Christmas movies

We got some icy weather, but only Grant was well enough to enjoy it.  

Grant and Scott were the only ones who didn't get sick.

Grant and a neighborhood friend had fun sliding around the neighborhood

We didn't leave the house for a few days - we live on a hill and it was pretty much impassable for a while

Christmas Eve we had a little nativity program

Got pajama pants from Ma2!!

Christmas dinner - the grandparents braved our germs and had a nice dinner with us.  

John was feeling sad and didn't want to join us.

We enjoyed some relaxing times after Christmas - Anna has been enjoying this paint by number set she got

Lots of Lego building

Matthew flying his new drone

We had a small New Years Eve party that involved crackers and dip, Italian sodas, lots of board games and musical movies on in the background.

And we even stayed up until midnight and watched fireworks - we have a nice view from the back of the house and could see lots of the fireworks - lots of fun.  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

 

November

We had an epic friend birthday party for Emma - 15 kids!!  It felt like a lot for me - glad its done now - but it turned out well.

And had a special b-day lunch at Olive Garden - Emma picked that restaurant because she loves the breadsticks

Emma's fall soccer season finished up

we got rid of the jack-o-lanterns

Emma made mini pumpkin pies at activity girls

Emma also helped me prep a lot of food for Thanksgiving

Getting the table ready!  We hosted Scott's side of our extended family this year - I think it went well, although I wish our living room was a little bigger when we have lots of people over.

More seating on the patio - we have a heat lamp out there that we used

All the cousins were there!  It was a lot of fun.

Hooray for cousins

The next day we got together with some of my side of the extended family to celebrate our Keeler nephews Gideon (blowing out candles) and Adam (blue/aqua shirt next to little table) and their birthdays.

And we got to celebrate Ben (a Guptill nephew) and his birthday with swimming, Chick-Fil-A and cupcakes.  It was so fun seeing everyone!!

A few weeks later Emma was baptized

We had wanted to do it over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend so everyone could be there but our stake leadership didn't want us to do that

Some family got to come and it was nice

Matthew and our youngest Guptill nephew, Clark are best buddies!!

And Emma with cousin Norah

It was a great day!