We have had a wonderful, busy year and I love looking back on some of our favorite events. I feel like this year has just flown by and I always enjoy taking a moment to remember things we have done or celebrated in the last year.
January
This is from New Year's Eve 2013.
Jessica, Me, Nahed, and Kyla
All four of us were pregnant this year. Ha!
We took Elizabeth to the Children's Museum at National Harbour
February
Elizabeth turned two!!
She had a birthday party at Landmark mall where all the kids played on the indoor playground and then road the train. We celebrated with a Chick-Fil-A lunch and cupcakes.
Happy Birthday to our sweet, beautiful girl!
March
In March, we enjoyed several snow days
(I love this picture of Elizabeth following Ben)
Playing in the backyard
We also announced we were going to become a family of four!
We were so excited to finally tell people
April
In April we celebrated Easter.
We took it easy this month because May was super busy.
May
We started the month by celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary!
Then we celebrated Mother's Day
In the middle of the month, we found out we were having a girl!
This picture was our announcement
We continued celebrating the month with Adam and Brigette getting married!
We ended the month by moving Elizabeth to a full size bed
And setting up a play area in her room
She picked out her bedding
June
We kicked off the month by going to our favorite farm, Butler's Orchard and picking strawberries
It was very hot
We got a lot of strawberries
And Elizabeth LOVED every minute
We ended the month by celebrating Father's Day with Ben's favorite breakfast
He loves this girl so much!
July
In July we headed to Texas and spent time with my family
Elizabeth and her Great Grandmother
Elizabeth and her Ga-Ga
Such a cowgirl
My siblings and cousins
Anna, Andy, Me, Jennifer, Jessica, Jayme
At the end of July we celebrated Ben graduating from his training program
Who doesn't love to celebrate with cake?
We also had Caroline's room painted
August
At the beginning of August, we celebrated Ben's 33rd birthday
Elizabeth loved celebrating (and wearing a party hat)
At the end of the month we made some liquid chalk for the first time
Elizabeth LOVED it!
September
We welcomed our beautiful daughter, Caroline!
I love this sweet baby!
Elizabeth loves her baby Caroline so much!
We are ready to go home!
October
In October we stayed around the house.
But I sent out this birth announcement
Caroline turned one month!
At the end of the month we celebrated Halloween.
We had a little lamb and a princess.
I love my family!!!
November
November was very busy and started by celebrating my 33rd birthday
Elizabeth loves to celebrate birthdays
For Thanksgiving we went to Pennsylvania
After Thanksgiving we went to Atlanta for my brother's wedding
My sister, Anna, my brother, Andy, and me before the wedding
My mom and me
Lolly, Andy, me, and Ben
Andy and me
Ben and Andy
December
We started the month by going to zoo lights at the National Zoo
Elizabeth and I made a gingerbread house in the middle of the month
We hosted a Christmas potluck towards the end of the month
Then we saw Santa before Christmas
My grandmother holding Caroline waiting for Santa
And Christmas morning
We have had a great year and we hope you have had one too.
I have no idea what 2015 holds for us but I am looking forward to it.
