We are closing out the year tonight with my husband by my side, my little boy sound asleep after having a wonderful evening with his grandparents and the fire burning with the football game on.
I am going to attempt to recap some of our major events from this past year month by month that stick out on my mind. One word to describe this year is busy. From January all the way through till December we have been busy in every aspect of our life.
This year began with Daddy staying busy traveling on the road for work. So Bridger and I had our first real test run of being home together waking up getting dress and ready and out the door to school and daycare on time. That was an adventure. Those were the moments I realized how tough it is being parent number one ALL the time. Of course in January we celebrated my 27th birthday by taking Bridger on his first plan ride. Reminiscing about how tough it would be, yet he did so great.
February was relatively quite from what I recall. Daddy sent some beautiful flowers to work for Valentines day. Bridger began quickly learning on to crawl and climb and even began wobbling. I do remember that around this time it seemed like we were sick all the time. Lots of time off from work to take care of our baby.
And March, where do I even start. Our boy turned 1! What a special day it was. We were surrounded by family and friends. I planned his first birthday party way in advanced, took lots of pictures. teared up alittle bit and realized how lucky we were to be his parents. That little boy has brought so much joy to our life and this last year has so special to us. In addition we became aunt and uncle again to Ms. Kallan. She is such a great baby and we wish that she lived closer!
Once again April was slow although busy in other ways that I recall in that we didn't have a single day off in April from school. May was my first Mother's Day, the end of the school year and memorial day weekend! A great way to enter into summer.
We were off and driving for nearly 18 hours in June, that is one way! We celebrated the wedding for my dad and Athena, we did the college world series, zoo, enjoyed family time with my family and made our way back home while stopping to see my 99 year old grandma. It was a busy month.
July was one for the books, lets see if I can jam pack everything in. We celebrated fourth of July, put our house up for sale, went to Bull Trout for our annual camping trip, celebrated our third wedding anniversary and to top it all off...... daddy turned 30 years old! Whooo that was alot just thinking about all of it. In between those events we attended parades, rodeos, local cuisines, farmers markets and lots of swimming for mommy and Bridger at roaring springs.
Then August came.....my mind shifts from summer to school. It was a DIY project for mommy's classroom. What I refer to as a little classroom makeover! We sold our house. And our sweet doggy passed away. It was a tough month and really still has been. We miss her everyday.
September came and went just as fast as August did. We moved into our new home, we had no living room furniture for 6 weeks and we learned that it just meant one thing....a huge playground for our little boy to run around. Finally in October it arrived! I began more graduate work and every Sunday my boys enjoyed time with Grandma and Grandpa.
October brought on my favorite season, Fall. Football was on all the time, we had a great Halloween at school and although our little guy was too tired to trick or treat we still had fun dressing up as a puppy and a superhero with mommy!
The count down to Thanksgiving break was on. My family came to town, we spent lots of time with Gaga, managed to get in some much needed sleep, however the ear infections came and it seemed that we were sick often.
Finally December came way too fast and now we are here on the last day of the year, about 3 hours till the new year and I can truly say that we had a great year.There were lots of ups and downs, lots of learning happening, growing together as a family and stronger as a unit, laughter and tears, and of course watching our baby boy become a toddler.
Here is to many great new memories, health and happiness! Happy New Year.
xoxo,
mommy
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