Looking Back & Looking Ahead

2011 was a great year! Here are some of the highlights:

Celebrated lots of January birthdays

Met up with all my siblings at my cousin's wedding

 

The kids saw their first Texas *snow*

We watched some Santo basketball games

We did lots of camping

Found out we were expecting #3



Blakers celebrated his 1st birthday

We had some reunions

Celebrated Easter with the Tackett Crew

Got the minivan &

 visited Zion & Grand Canyon National Parks

 

Tori graduated from high school

We got our garden off to a promising start (only to have it incinerated this summer)

 
We welcomed Margaret "Maggie" Laura to the world

 Bailey learned to swim

Cars 2 came out!

We took Franny with us to Trail West

Found out that we were having a little girl

  Barely survived the HOT, HOT summer



 

Attended the McKinzie Family Reunion

I stopped working part-time as a pharmacy tech

Bailey started preschool

And with her daddy's help she learned to ride her bike without training wheels

Luke traveled to Istanbul by way of Paris to visit his college buddy Walt

 We made a family trip down to Port A with Franny & the other Mezgers

Franny's house was finished just in time for Owen & Bailey's 4th birthday party

Took Bailey to her first Texas A&M football game

Headed to the Pumpkin Patch with friends

Made another trip to Aggieland (& Houston) to see the Johnsons & celebrate their upcoming little girl

We held our 4th Annual Halloween Potluck and dressed up as Woody's Round Up Gang

Made last minute preparations for Blair's arrival:

Including my baby shower &

a few house projects

Probably the best thing to happen for us in 2011!

Had a Thanksgiving feast with the Mezgers 

 And celebrated Christmas, twice!

Looking back I can truly say that I am overwhelmed with God's blessings on our family. Seriously, what a great year! Can I just push repeat? (minus another pregnancy/baby, not that I don't want one eventually). One thing about me is that I am always looking to the future and 2012 excites me too! 


This spring I am looking forward to one-on-one time with my oldest two. Blake started preschool today and goes Mon/Wed, while Bailey goes Tues/Thurs.
 

Here's the little man all ready to go swollen eye, scratch & all. He tripped on a tree root and hit his cheek on the corner of a metal picnic table. Thankfully it wasn't worse.

Granted that the baby food stage is one of my least favorite stages because of it's messiness, I am looking forward to it this time because I will be making my own baby food with our new juicer! Until then we will enjoy all sorts of interesting fruit and veggie juice mixtures.

  Looking forward to lots of firsts this next year from this little lady.

So Happy New Year, may God OVERWHELM (in a good way) you and your family this next year!