Boy 2014 when by in a flash!! I can't believe it is already over! This has been a great year for us! We have been so blessed that we not only got to spend this year doing lots of fun and exciting things with E&E...but we also welcomed two new members to the family! What a blessing those two sweeties are!! Lets do a little recap of our year. It snowed several times in January & February. That was very unusual! We had a great time playing in that, making snowmen, snow ice cream, & riding the 4-wheeler! In March, we all went to Charlotte for the Richard Petty Driving experience, we had a reveal party for Alison & Nick and found out their sweet baby was a BOY, & Justin & I celebrated 7 years of marriage! Yay...statistics show the first 7 are the hardest and we made it!! :) April was turkey season so other than our Annual Easter Egg Hunt and Easter...we didn't have time for much else! In May, we took a trip to Atlanta to visit the Zoo and the Aquarium. We also celebrated Mother's Day in May when we found out Katie & Matt were getting a baby girl within a couple weeks! Then at the end of May...sweet Laney joined us!! June was spent showering Katie with LOTS of showers and Father's Day! July started off with the 4th celebrations and a shower for Alison, The next day...baby Reid joined our family! He definitely made a appearance no one was expecting!! We visited the Tweetsie Railroad with Katie, Matt, & Baby Laney! August was a pretty quiet month. September we finally got to go on our family vacation and we had a ball. We celebrated Justin's birthday while we were at the beach. Then, hunting season, football games, & birthday parties took up our weekends for the next 4 months. We went Denver Downs pumpkins patch in October and were a cowboy & cowgirl for Halloween! Then came November and it started out with SNOW!! We celebrated Emma & Evan's birthday on the 15th with an art party...which they still talk about on occassion! We also went on a weekend trip to the mountains with the Fortner's and celebrated Thanksgiving even though we were sick and had to stay home! In December, we celebrated mine & Katie's 31st birthday and then went to ride the Polar Express! We had our first annual Christmas brunch with our friends and the kiddos and took family pictures we originally planned to take in October. The weather was warmer in December than in October!! We had LOTS of family gatherings, Christmas parties, & finally celebrated Christmas. And that is just the highlights of our year. We did lots of remodeling at our house, E&E started a new nursery, I went back to working full-time again, Emma was potty trained in a day, Evan is almost potty trained, Emma lost her paci and hasn't asked for it since...I could go on and on...but I will just leave it at that. Since Justin & I both had to work on New Year's Eve this year...we spent this holiday at home! So, we grabbed a pizza on the way from work, undecorated our house from Christmas, shot fireworks, & sparklers, roasted marshmallows, made homemade hot chocolate, played Hi-Ho Cherrio (Mickey Mouse version) and after E&E went to bed...Justin and I rang in the new year on the couch watching football! I thought it was kind of sad that we weren't out at a party and then I remembered those who would love just one more night of being with their family and I decided it was okay! We don't have to be out with a crowd to have fun with our sweeties! So, here are the couple pictures I took from last night!
We were waiting for Daddy to get the fire going!
Sparkler time!
Evan wanted to help chop the wood for the fire!
And believe it or not...this is Emma holding a firecracker after it was lit! Last year they screamed and screamed when we tried to make them watch fireworks! And these are not very loud fireworks!! So...this is a HUGE accomplishment!
And Evan did it too!
And one last picture of them drinking their hot chocolate. Don't you just wonder what this conversation was about??
So, that is how we ended 2014!! It was a great year and I know 2015 is going to be just as good! We already have several things in the works that I might have to diclose later on! I am fixing to go attempt my first ever New Year's meal complete with pork chops, collards, black eye peas, cornbread, tea, & cookies! Sounds yummy right!! Happy New Year!!
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