2010, Our Year In Review

Just for fun, this is a little run-down of what all we did in 2010.  It seemed like a crazy time starting out the year with an almost newborn!  Time flies and it's time to start another year!

January

We started out our new year with lots of snow!  Matthew was still so little and John Michael seemed like a baby still, too.  It was a hard, cold winter in the house with a 20 month old and a little tiny baby!

               

February

February greeted us with even more snow! We took advantage of it and sledded in our driveway!  Matthew was still a little baby but started to be so much more alert and do more things.  John Michael was still working through a few jealousy issues but overall still learning how to be a big brother and language, etc.

      

March

In March Matthew bloomed into our happy, constantly-smiling boy!  We started having some nice, warm days so we were finally able to get outside more and more.  That makes a stay-at-home mama happy!

                        

April

In April we celebrated Easter and really took advantage of the nice, warm days!

May

In May we celebrated John Michael's second birthday with a barnyard themed bash!  It was fun and oh so cute!  Matthew got his big-boy car seat just like brother and the boys really started interacting a lot more together.  It is so sweet to see them starting to really take an interest in each other!

            

June

In June it started to get hot, hot, hot!  We spent more and more time outside with our water hose and I started learning how to juggle two babies at our neighborhood pool.  I'm still learning!  Next summer should be interesting.

                   

July

We headed back home for July 4th and Jordan flew in to meet us.  It was one of the worst trips ever.  Both boys were very, very sick with very high fevers and no one slept.  At least it was enjoyable being with our families for the 4th.  I keep thinking how this coming 4th of July we'll hopefully have a new little one in our arms!  We swam at GaGa & Bop's house and I took advantage of the pool during the boys' naptime!

August

In August Uncle Judd showed up for a surprise visit!  We visited the Animal Safari and Jordan and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary on the 5th!  We spent a lot of time downtown at our Farmer's Market on Saturdays and we usually always played out back or went for a walk after dinner!  I love summer!  John Michael started Mother's Day Out at the end of August.

        

September

September started football season for us and both boys love football!  Matthew started being mroe mobile and creeping and hanging onto furniture.  Our garden was still yielding veggies and both boys love to help Jordan bring in the harvest.  We also visited the Animal Safari one more time and JM got to pet his favorite lemur again.  He loves that lemur!

                    

       

October

A lot happened in October!  Matthew got his first few front teeth, starting eating table food, and was nearly walking!  We celebrated Halloween at church and enjoyed Alabama's wonderful football season!  John Michael is really starting to love going to Mother's Day Out and I can tell he's really taking to it!

November

November seemed like a busy month!  I was so tired and nausous and we found out in early November that we were expecting baby #3!!  We drove home to Alabama to celebrate Thanksgiving and Matthew's first birthday!  Matthew started officially walking and getting into everything all the time!  John Michael's vocabulary seemed to really start taking off as he learned more and more new things at school!

December

In December we told all of our friends about our exciting baby news!  I slowly decorating the house for Christmas and just felt really tired a lot in December.  John Michael enjoyed his first Christmas parade and Matthew slept through it!  John Michael really started opening up more and talking up a storm ALL the time!  His vocabulary and talking took off like lightning at the end of the month and he hasn't stopped since.  He also started potty training; which is going quite well!  He's getting to be a really big boy!  We enjoyed our warm, snuggly Christmas Day in PJs for most of the day!

We had a wonderful 2010 and we cannot wait to see what's in store for 2011.  We are anxiously waiting for the newest little one and we know this year is going to be exciting, tired, and great!