Here are some highlights of our year:
1. Landen turned one year old this year! It's been so much fun helping him learn and watching him grow up. He has turned into one of the funniest people I know, and not a day goes by that he doesn't make me smile, laugh, feel proud, and love him even more. Josh and I comment to each other on a weekly basis about how boring our lives would be without our little pipsqueak!
2. Josh and I got married this year! Crazy that we've already been married almost 9 months. It has flown by! And because we got married, we got to go away for two days by ourselves! For the very first time in our relationship! We had an amazing amount of fun, just the two of us :)
3. We found out in June that we were going to have a baby!
4. We were able to travel to Lincoln City to hang out with Josh's family from Washington! Such a long drive, but the three days of laughs, sun, beach, bonfires, and rest were more than worth it. I can't wait to see them again!
5. We found out that we are going to have a baby girl! Words cannot possibly express how happy we were when we found that out. We wanted Landen to have a little sister so bad. And now she's almost here!! (By the way, I am 35 weeks and 1 day pregnant. And SO ready to be done!)
6. We got to spend 1 week in California with my family! We crammed so much fun into that week, and it was so hard to come home. We had a wedding reception while we were there, a lot of people were able to meet Josh and Landen for the first time, and I was able to catch up with people I hadn't seen in such a long time!
7. Josh and I both turned 23! Okay, it's not a big milestone or anything. But it blows our minds on a regular basis on how fast we grew up and how in no time at all we turned into a family of 4 living by ourselves in Baker City.
8. We turned into "soccer parents"! We actually have some time until we are actually carting our little ones to soccer practice, but now we can do it on our brand new (to us) van! Our early Christmas present from my parents was their van! Honestly, Josh was more excited than I was...but we have grown to love this van so much! Going anywhere is so much more bearable when we aren't crammed into our little Civic.
9. It's just us in our family now! ...confusing, right? Allow me to explain. After a year long (and then some) battle with Landen's biological dad, we can finally say that Josh and I are Bug's only parents. We don't have to share him with anyone!! And that's probably the greatest thing that could have ever happened.
10. We were able to spend our holidays with family! Doesn't get any better than that.
11. We spent this last weekend away in Cascade with Josh's side of the family! Unfortunately, because of my current physical condition (and general clumsiness while pregnant), I was not able to take part in sledding and general merriment of being out in the snow. But it was still fun to watch Josh wipe out on a tube and check him out when he's not looking ;)
12. We made it through another year! Seriously, sometimes I wondered if I could make it. This year has been a tough one. But I couldn't have a better guy by my side to get me through it, or a funnier little boy to make me laugh every day.
Happy New Year, everyone! Cheers to many laughs, memories, and loved ones to get you through this next year! :)
