So Long Farewell 2013

2013 was a great year with a lot of changes. Mostly can be seen in the ever growing beautiful E. Just looking at pictures from last January makes me want to cry. She was so little! The time just goes by so fast! So here is a review of what we did this last year!

January

We enjoyed nice long weekends and watched this little one learn to roll from back to tummy. 

February

E practiced our new skill of sitting. 

We celebrated Valentine's Day as a family. 

I turned 30 and lived to tell about it. 

March

E got visits from her Nana and her aunt, uncle and cousins

Jason celebrated his 30th birthday

E started crawling and pulling to stand 

We celebrated Easter

April

I attended two weddings of some sweet high school friends

May

We bought a house and Jason started a new job

I celebrated my first Mother's Day

We celebrated 39 weeks with E being outside my body!

June

E started walking!

We moved into our new house

Jason celebrated his first Father's Day

We took our first swim in the pool

July

We celebrated 4th of July

August

We took many trips to Target

We celebrated our 6th year anniversary!

E turned 1 and we went to the zoo.

We threw her a pink lemonade birthday bash.

September

I started my fall bible study

E took her first session of swimming lessons

We went on a family vacation to Galveston

October

We went to the pumpkin patch

We cheered on OU in our pretty dress

We went to a wedding of a dear friend

I watched the Boston Red Sox win their 3rd World Series title in 10 years!

We celebrated Halloween with our little bumblebee

November

We took walks in our wagon while enjoying the cooler weather

We enjoyed outings to the park and playing on the slide

We celebrated Thanksgiving at our house

December

We had our first ice storm of the year

We celebrated Christmas with my family!

Can't wait to see what 2014 has in store for us! Bring it!

Happy New Year everyone!

Christmas 2013 Part 2

Christmas morning! Seeing Christmas morning through they eyes of your child might be the most precious thing ever. We brought E into our room while I went and turned the tree lights on. When we asked if she was ready to open her presents, she took off running into the living room and grabbed a present under the tree and started bringing it toward us. So so cute. 

Playing with a bow!

Her big gift from us was the chair! She loved it! She also got a Leap Frog phone in her stocking that she absolutely loved!.  

Opening one of her gifts from Nana and Papa. They got her the Little People Nativity set -  with the shepherds too!

She also got a tea set from them. 

One of the gifts Jason and I got her was a my first photo album that has pictures of us and her extended family in it. She loves looking at pictures, and this way she recognize them when they come to visit. 

Ladybug Girl board books - a new favorite

She got this fun learning turtle from her nanny Brandis!

We had to take a break from opening presents with her because she lost interest and wanted to play with all the things she had opened and play with all the boxes and paper. Hehe. After her morning nap, she opened up some more presents, and we opened up presents from the rest of the family.  

Bow sharing with her cousin

The best little present

And then after she opened presents from the family, she went to go give them all hugs. Awwww!!

Don't we all look tired?! Ha! Did I mention our little one hadn't been feeling good the last couple of days and so our nights were not so fun. 

This was a common thing to see all day. E sitting in her chair in the kitchen. For some reason, that is where she thinks her chair belongs. Even now, she brings it into the kitchen to sit in it along with her phone. 

Another break from present opening and then she opened her last gift from us. A cute little baby doll. 

 

In case you're wondering, I just can't get enough of this cute little girl. Here she is holding one of her stocking stuffer presents - a Dr. Seuss book. 

E wanted to try on her cousin's slippers. This was the result. It was kind of funny.

All in all, it was wonderful Christmas. Filled with family, love, and celebrating the birth of our Savior which is the best gift of all. I hope you all had a wonderful merry Christmas!

Christmas 2013 Part 1

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We sure did! It was so fun to watch E this year with presents. Definitely different than last year. She was actually interested in opening them! Her excitement and smiles were just contagious.

We started our festivities off on Saturday. Jason's dad and stepmom and brother came into town and we opened up gifts from each other.

She had fun ripping the paper and handing it to her Uncle Jared. She was very particular about getting all the paper off all the box before opening the present. Ha!

We had to stop opening presents because E got distracted and wanted to play with her things that she had already opened. So we saved some for later that day to open.

On Sunday, we missed church because of an epic blowout diaper that required an immediate bath =). Oh well. We hung out for the day and made to an outdoor shopping area in a nearby town to pick up a gift card for my brother for Christmas. It was cold so we had to bundle Elyanah up really well.

She loves loves LOVES to play in the water in the pans.

Doesn't she look cute?

*Fast forward to Tuesday*
We hung out at the house in the morning, and then went to lunch at Pei Wei together as a family before heading to Christmas Eve service. Christmas Eve service was great. I love the candlelight service that is a tradition on Christmas Eve, AND we actually got in this year. We got turned away from the service last year because it was already full. It pays to go to the smaller satellite church than the big one =).

After service, we ran a couple of errands and then came home and spent the afternoon as a family before my family came into town. We had gumbo for dinner. It's becoming sort of a tradition for our family. We then opened up our pajamas to wear for the night. E went to bed and we watched Christmas movies and called it a night around 10.

In our cute Christmas pajamas. 

I will leave you a fun photo shoot of my girl in her cute Christmas Eve dress.