2018 In Review

Thinking back on 2018 is crazy weird. We started it with an eight month old baby and ended it with a brand new baby girl! We took a few trips, but it was mostly a "see family and friends" year, not much just for us, but that's okay, because that's what we wanted to do before adding to our broad. Let's just say 2019 has some fun just us (well us being the 4 of us) trips planned.

Anyways, let's look back at this whirlwind year!

January

January this year we celebrated Cara's first snow day. Even though she wasn't a big fan of it, it was still fun to take her out and dress her up. It was a slower month, but still fun!

February 

February we celebrated an awesome Valentine's Day...maybe more awesome for me because I got the personal massage and Larry took care of Cara. Even though our ice cream didn't turnout so well, but it was a good day still.

We also checked a big thing off our list and we both got our Concealed Carriers Permits. This one was a huge one on our list so I'm so happy we got this one done!

March

March was a BIG month for us. Cara learned to walk all on her own and became a big mover. It was so exciting to see her accomplish this and I can't tell you how nice it's been that she walks now.

We also found out we were expecting our little Gwen this month. That's obviously one of the biggest things. It was a huge change, but so so exciting!!

April

April we started out in Tennessee. We celebrated Cara's first Easter with both of my sides (morning with Mom and Will, afternoon with the Wilson side). Even though that's not a huge holiday, it was nice to celebrate it with family to get ONE of her holidays in with family.

 

We also held Cara's first birthday party this month. It was a little early, but it worked out well with my mom's visit and my work schedule. It was such an ideal day!

May

Obviously the biggest thing was Cara turning one this month. Finally reaching that milestone was so exciting and just the best part of the year. I can't believe we have a one year old at this point and she's been such a big joy in our lives!

We also discovered a great way to keep date nights without having to find a babysitter and keep us feeling like a couple still: Saturday Movie Date Night. (I miss these and can't wait to get back to them). We had so much fun with these throughout the year. We got to watch the entire Marvel comic series this year and that was so nice.

June

In June we (kind of) started it out by taking Cara to her first baseball game. It didn't go as well as I had hoped, but it was still fun to take her and test that out (thankfully they are pretty cheap tickets).

I also created an awesome mom hack with toys for kids, we celebrated 5 years married, I started to think of my post-partum life after Gwen would be born, and I found my love of reading again.

It was also the beginning of many summer adventures with Cara. So happy when the season changes and we can be out of the house more!

July

We started July by celebrating Larry's 30th birthday. I was happy he finally got a good day for his birthday since his 29th wasn't the best. We also celebrated the fourth of July in some fun ways (which got me started on thinking of holiday traditions I wanted to start up).

One of the more exciting parts was finding out we were having a little girl and being able to finally tell people about the pregnancy! This was a big part of the whole year honestly, I could finally start planning for this new baby coming into our world.

August

In August we had one of the most fun weeks when we did a staycation. I have loved every trip and vacation we've taken, but ever since having Cara this one was the first time I felt like we had a real vacation (Hawaii might be tied for number one here).

We also signed Cara up for tumbling class to help get her socialized. Even though the class didn't last long for us, we still very much enjoyed going and getting her used to others. It was a great class and I hope we can find something new for her to do next year.

September

September was such a fun month for us. We went to Swiss Days over Labor Day (though we learned that is NOT a family event...I'll be going solo in future years). We also took a trip to Georgia to visit Stacey (our last trip of the year and very exhausting for a 7 month old pregnant lady), it was such a fun and memorable trip (and not just because of the hurricane scare haha).

October

In October we finally made the decision to get some new memberships (since the tumbling class was cancelled on us). Even though we've only gone a couple times, I think these will be so nice to have this next year. We didn't do much for Halloween, but I did drag my family to a pumpkin patch. We also celebrated our 14th anniversary over a nice, relaxing weekend.

November

November was obviously our most eventful month. We celebrated our last family date night out for a while (with flu season coming and having a newborn we knew going out and for dinner wasn't going to be a thing in our near future). We had our little Gwen this month. And we celebrated the most low-key Thanksgiving ever haha.

 

 

December

December, we celebrated the first month of having Gwen and I decided to document our breastfeeding journey. We had a very exciting Christmas with both girls. That was about all we did this month. We just focused so much on getting into a good routine with Gwen that it wasn't as eventful as normal.

Overall, 2018 has been very good to us. I am very much looking forward to what this next year will bring us with Gwen's first year, celebrating Cara's second year, and everything that brings for us.  Happy New Year!!!