Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Happy New Year!

It's hard to believe that it's 2014... 2013 flew by and I had to stop and think about everything that has happened this year... In summary, let's see what happened... All the girls started walking, talking, climbing, running, jumping, playing with each other, fighting with each other, learned to enjoy their brother, turned 2, and started to eat and sleep awesomely (if that's a word). Declan started a new Pre-K, road the bus for the first time, played soccer (in 3 different leagues), learned to ice skate, saw his first Pro-Hockey and Baseball games, experienced his first Lego Land in NYC (Discovery Center), started to realize that his sisters could actually play with him, turned 5, learned how to do headstands and handstands, learned how to shower on his own, started writing things (with our help on spelling), learned how to play mindcraft when his parents haven't a clue and realized his love of breakdance :-) All of us enjoyed 2 trips back to Wisconsin, both Andy and I joined a gym and started working out (I've lost 25 pounds since December 2012!), Andy/Declan/I went to Puerto Rico, Andy went to a Pearl Jam concert and had a few guys weekends, I got to go to Italy, Belgium, Argentina, London and various places in the US for work, we had numerous wonderful visits from family and Andy and I have survived another year with 4 children :-) Unfortunately with a lot of good came some not so good with Andy's Grandma Ray passing away, which was a huge loss...

Overall it was a pretty positive year and I can't wait for 2014! I feel this will be the best year yet for us, as a family and for both of us personally. Can't wait!!

Here are a few pictures of us ringing in the new year and kicking off the first day in the new year... Me and the girls before their bedtime (and before my yummy Blue Moon time!) L to R: Stevie, Aven & Bria - they are getting way too big for my lap!!


Em came over and our friend Justin came up from Philly and we had a stay in NYE celebration playing monopoly and drinking WAY too much! But we had tons of fun!


Declan humoring me - love the rob :-)


Mr. Justin entertaining the girls (Stevie is not in the picture since she is still terrified of him :-))


Some outtakes of the girls cheering for the Badgers - too bad it didn't work for us and get us a victory! (L to R: Stevie, Bria & Aven)
We hope you all have a Happy New Year and you are blessed with health and happiness this year!!!

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