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2013- A review

 I know this is a little late but better late than never. This year has had ups and downs and for sure one for the books!!!

January- We found out my mom had stage one cancer but that it had all been removed with surgery and she was now cancer free!!! I had my baby shower, and we made plans for when baby Smith arrived. I had to sit through our annual football party sober and vowed that I will NEVER do that again!

February- We found out that the deal to sell our house fell through and that we would NOT be moving. We kicked it into high gear and got the nursery ready and the house all set for our nugget to arrive.

March- We became PARENTS!!! Grayson Michael was born on March 19th via c-section you can read more about that here. We went from a family of 2 to 3 and it was an adjustment. We celebrated Grayson's first holiday (Easter) and I got to stay home with him

April- We celebrated a million birthdays and had a surprise party for my Mom's 50th. I got to spend the whole month snuggling my nugget. Grayson started to spit up a lot and we made our first trip to the doctor for a cold.

May- I went back to work. It was hard but I needed the routine again. Grayson started daycare and transitioned beautifully. We figured out our groove as a family with two working parents.

June- Celebrated my birthday. Grayson got baptized, and we had a Par-tay. I started this blog but neglected it for the longest time. Two of our couple friends got engaged!!!

July- G's first 4th of July!! We got a pool!!! Grayson started rice cereal this month and got chunkier I think. We found out that Grayson had acid reflux and he started medicine.

August- We went on our first family camping trip to Gramstock. It was a blast....and we drank way to much. We celebrated 4 years of marriage (where does the time go?).

September-Was pretty low key. We celebrated Libby's birthday I can't believe she is 8. Other than that September was filled with fall fun, and football.

October- We celebrated Michael's birthday with a taco party. It was blast. It was Grayson's first Halloween and he had two costumes!!! He also got his first two teeth

November- Thanksgiving!!!! I loved all the first's with Grayson. Michael and I got a date night just the two of us and it was much over due. I got 80% of our Christmas shopping done and Grayson saw snow for the first time, and started crawling.

December- Christmas!!! Seeing my baby boy open presents, and Michael open his gift was amazing.We battled the flu and rashes but we came out all better in time for Christmas. We celebrated the last day of 2013 family style and I loved every second of it.

I'm excited for 2014 and all the amazing things we have planned for our family!!









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