December 31, 2016

2016 Year In Review

At the end of each year, I like to go back and do a quick recap of our whole year.  It's always fun to remember what we've been up to over the past year.

January
We hosted my family at our house for dinner on New Year's Day.

Emily lost her first tooth!

We went bowling with the cousins.

Evan started back up with swim lessons.

February
Emily started spring soccer.

We celebrated Valentine's Day.

Emily went to the Daddy/Daughter dance.

Emily celebrated the 100th day of Kindergarten.

March
We took the kids to the stockyards for the first time.

We celebrated Easter with several different events.





Shawn and I celebrated 8 years of marriage.


April
Shawn went on his annual guy's canoe trip.

We attended Evan's spring fling and Em's school carnival.

Emily finished up her soccer season.

We took our annual bluebonnet pictures.


May
We went to a Roughrider's baseball game.

Emily participated in the Mother's Day program and the Alphabest talent show at school.

Evan finished up another season of soccer shots at school.

Emily had her field day at school.

We celebrated Mother's Day with brunch.


June
Evan turned 4 and we celebrated with a PJ Masks party at the Sci-Tech Discovery Center.

Emily finished Kindergarten and Evan finished Preschool.


We celebrated Father's Day.

Both kids started summer camp at Primrose.

Shawn took both kids to his office for "take your kids to work" day.

We went to Hollywood, FL for a week.

July
We celebrated 4th of July with family.

Shawn took the kids to his work's family fun day.

I took Emily to see Pinkalicious the musical.


Shawn and I went to Cancun for my cousin's wedding.



August
Emily started 1st grade.

Evan started Pre-K.


September
Both kids started Fall soccer.


Shawn took Emily hunting over Labor Day Weekend.

Shawn went to the Cowboys/Giants Game


October
Emily lost her 2 front teeth!

Emily turned 7 and we celebrated with a party at WOGA.

We did our Halloween Countdown calendar all month long.

We went trick or treating.

November
Both kids finished up fall soccer.


Shawn was a watchdog at Em's school.

We celebrated Thanksgiving.

We visited the Gaylord.

We went on the Polar Express train.

December
We did our annual Christmas Advent Calendar with lots of fun activities.


I went to NYC with Courtney.

We celebrated Christmas with family.

I'm already looking forward to 2017 as we have a very exciting trip planned in March!!  Evan also starts Kindergarten next year.  I can't wait to see what else 2017 ends up holding for us.