So very true. The days sometime feel like they are crawling by with whiny kids and piles of laundry. Then you blink and it is another year. 2011 one day and blink...now we are about to embark on 2012! Here is a little review of how we spent the past year.
January
Celebrated Lila's 1st and Brendan's 5th birthday with a fun sledding party with lots of family and friends. We were blessed with a beautiful blue sky day!
Brendan and I went with his preschool to the Detroit Zoo.
Brendan and Jason went to a Piston's game and Brendan got to take a shot out on the court.
February
The Great Blizzard of 2011 (sarcasm). We were forecasted around 20+ inches but only ended up with 12. It was quite the let down after all the hype. I even stayed up to watch it.
We had a fun time at the Henwood's Superbowl party.
Lila started swim lessons with her bff, Drew.
March
We celebrated lots of birthdays this month (Nathan, Hailey, Xavier, Maya, and Duck!)
Lila played outside (walking/running) for the first time!
We went to the zoo again with friends.
Brendan and I went to Cranbrook for his field trip and learned about bats and dinosaurs.
April
Tigers season starts! We watched the game with Grandma and made baseball cookies!
Brendan starts spring soccer.
We celebrate Jack and Reegan's birthday.
We have our first warm day of the year (finally!) and play outside.
Brendan has his Kindergarten Round Up. We meet his teacher and rode the school bus!
We celebrated Easter with family.
May
March for Babies 2011 in Toledo! Go Team Superbaby!
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We celebrated Mother's Day with our moms.
Another warm day! We went swimming!
We go to the zoo as a family (it is hot!).
Lila finishes First Families play class.
Brendan finishes preschool with a field trip to the farm!
The kids and I go up north with Jason's family for Memorial weekend. We cut the trip short because of Lila's clinging issues and drove home in a terrible storm.
Happy 5 years Jason!
June
We take a family trip to Atlanta, Mi and stay with the Warning family in the cabin. We also go to Mackinaw City for the day.
We made homemade bird feeders.
Relay for Life to honor my dad.
We watched a bunch of big trees come down at my mom's house.
Brendan starts t-ball!
Brendan and I participate in Shake it Up Cafe at our local church.
We study Bald Eagles and start visiting nature centers.
We camp out on our back porch!
July
Go Time...Mom gets called for transplant. Bittersweet memory. She was sent home because the donor lungs kept declining and were unusable for transplant. My mom was comforting us and the amazing UofM staff.
More t-ball!
Hottest day of year with heat index of 107.
We go to a Detroit Tigers baseball game but leave because of a huge storm. (It was about 97 here...)
Jason turns 30 and I turn 31!
We go to the beach!
We visit lots of nature centers!
Celebrated Lila and Brendan's half-birthdays.
Celebrated Grandpa and Daniel's birthdays.
August
Nature walks
Waterpark with Daddy!
Maumee Bay State Park with Katie and Landyn. We saw a bald eagle!
Brendan visits the dentist and does great! We learn he has a couple almost wiggly teeth.
Airport Open House with the Bisnett's
Brendan finishes t-ball!
Zoo with cousins!
Meet and Greet at Sandburg!
Spray park with friends.
September
Brendan starts kindergarten.
College football season begins
Celebrate Nola's birthday
Lila starts First Families play class
Another Tigers game. Wish we could have seen JV's 25th win. Oh well. Brendan saw his guy hit a homer.
October
Brendan home sick for a week with fever, pink eye, influenza, and ear infection
Lila gets croup the following week
Celebrate mom's birthday
Celebrate our good friends getting married
Visit apple orchard with great grandma
Pick out pumpkins
Connor Kent is born!!!
HALLOWEEN with our little duckie (chicken) and monster
Brendan loses his very first tooth (outside at our friends house!) The tooth fairy brought him 2 dollars!
November
Toledo Zoo to celebrate Paul's birthday
Nature walks in the leaves
Thanksgiving with family
Girls weekend at my mom's
Brendan got an amazing kindergarten review!
Brendan started Friday night soccer with his buddies
December
Cookie making
Lots of family parties
Christmas tree lighting/Seeing Santa and Mrs. Clause
Writing our Christmas lists
Looking at lights
Date night to see New Year's Eve
We all come down with the Great Christmas Plague after my mom's party
Brendan loses his second tooth and gets a dollar!
Christmas!!!!
Thank you Facebook for making this post possible (and Jaymie, Jill, and Heather who I snagged some pictures from)!
