Saturday, January 3, 2015

Our New Years

It's hard to believe we are already three days into 2015!!!
 
We've had a pretty good start despite me not feeling great.  I went for my regular doctor's appointment on New Year's Eve, and she prescribed me a ZPak and some steroids.  After 4 days of sinus like junk and a worsening cough, she gave me something more than over the counter medicine I had been taking.
 
We spent NYE very low key at home.  I got us a Papa Murphy's Pizza and some sparkling grape juice.  Then, my sweet sis-in-law brought over fun hats and blowers since I wasn't feeling well enough to go to their house and spend the evening with them.
 
 
 
 
 
After J went to bed, we broke out the Welch's and I made a simple s'mores dip while we watched a movie.  It was pretty great!!!
 
 
 
 
New Year's Day was so relaxed.  I was so thankful that I had taken all of our Christmas decorations down earlier in the week and cleaned the whole house.  I really felt like I could relax and do nothing all day.  Because it was cold and dreary, we did just that.  We didn't leave the house all day.  It was so great!!!  Nothing much better than lounging around all day in pjs with white chicken chili cooking in the crockpot.  At the end of our day, Aaron declared that we should make this a tradition.  Every New Year's Day should be a do nothing hang around the house day.  I'm in!!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I seriously couldn't love this kid anymore!!!  Such a sweetie!!!
 
 
And we had to take a pic of Daddy, too!!!
 
That pretty much sums up our New Year's!!! Hope yours was as relaxing!!!
 
 

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

2014: Year in Review

2014 has been a full year!!!
Here's a look back--

January
We started off the year on a Disney cruise.  This was our first trip away since having J.  We had a blast!!!


 
 
J played outside on the driveway with his car from Santa.

 We tried Mother's Day Out, but didn't stick with it due to getting RSV in February.

We celebrated Aaron's birthday with a nice dinner out to Cacharel.
 

 
And... Aaron started his graduate studies online at UNT.
 
 
February
J got sick with RSV.  Boo!!!
 
 
 
We celebrated J's 2nd Birthday with a car themed party. 
 
 
 
March
We celebrated our 7th anniversary with a family day.
  My mom made me my favorite dinner and red velvet cake for my birthday.
 
Over Spring Break, we spent a fun day at the park with RaRa.
 
 
April
 
We enjoyed the beautiful weather and played outside a lot!!!

 


 

 
Cousin Eli was born on April 15th, so we went and visited.
 
Daddy took a day off work, and we went to the zoo.

 
 
We celebrated Easter Sunday.

 
May
We went to the zoo with a group from church.
 
The beauty of working part-time- going to the park in the middle of the week.
 
 
We played with bubbles, sidewalk chalk...
 
 
I put together another successful Career Day at YMLA.
 
 
J got ear tubes and did great!!!  Only kid in the place not screaming and crying!!!
 
 June
 
I said "good bye" to my office at YMLA because I didn't want to work full-time.
 
J played outside more- loved the sprinklers!!!
 
 
Fun Saturday breakfasts out with Daddy!
 
 Swim lessons that were a bust!!!!
 
 
Our first road trip...destination, Florida.
 
 
 J loved the beach!!!
 Another successful beach trip with RaRa and GPa!!!
 
On June 29th, we also discovered I was pregnant with baby # 2!!!  No pic for that!!!
 
July
Beside lots of laying on the couch due to pregnancy sickness, we went to Jackson Hole and RaRa and GPa's cabin.
 
 
 
August
 
We played in RaRa and GPa's pool. 
 
 
Played outside some more and took selfies...
 
 
J had his first day of Preschool.
 
 
And... we announced we were expecting baby #2!!!
 
 
 
Oh and I resigned from FWISD, which means I didn't start back to work which felt really weird.
 
September
 
We went to the Back to School Picnic at J's school.
 
 
Baby bump pic- 16 weeks
 
 
Decorated for Fall
 
Another trip to the zoo
 
 
 
 
 October
We found out we were having another boy!!!
 
We participated in Walk4Water at our church.
 
 
I started tutoring at my old junior high on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
 
 
We celebrated my mom's birthday.
 
 
We had our yearly trip to the pumpkin patch.
 
Halloween with our own little Mickey Mouse
 
 
 
 
 
 
November
 
J started potty training.
 
 
Thanksgiving Day group selfie
 
 
 Grandparents' Day at J's school
 
December
Besides lots of sickness in our family...
 
Cookies with Claus
 
Santa pic
 
 
 Annual Tree Lighting at the Chandlers'
 
Christmas morning visit to the ER
 
Christmas Day night at Meema and PopPop's
 
We have been blessed beyond belief in 2014!!!  Here's to 2015!!!  Oh how excited I am to see what you have in store for us!