2013 Highlights

I didn't post much during the first half of the year, so just for keepsakes I wanted to record some of our highlights for the past year.  Savannah Kate had many firsts and experiences that I don't want to forget :)

January
SK Febral seizure and ambulance ride to the ER

Moved into our new house - did lots of remodeling!  I somehow don't have a picture of the outside.

SK busted head open at school, first stiches

Visited flight museum

February
Mommy's surprise 30th birthday party (very surprised!)

Valentines Day

Mammaw's funeral, celebrating her life and wearing red because it was her favorite color

March
Colorado trip

Easter with the Beakley's

April
Disney on Ice

Stayed with cousins for a week

May
Started gymnastics

Fort Worth Stock Yards

Mother's day weekend

First visit to Dallas Zoo

Potty training begins (btw - still ongoing)

 

Daddy's 31st birthday

June
Visit to TN

Channing's 1st birthday

Visit to NWA

SK's first movie theater movie - Monster's University

July 4th

Swim lessons

First mani/pedi

Pregnant! Miracle

Children's Aquarium

August
SK moved into big girl bed

Florida beach trip

Ranger's game

 

September
Visit to TN

Started dance class

It's a boy!

Started preschool

 

October

3rd birthday Party pictures

Cat in the Hat - first live play, she loved it!

Halloween

November
Gaylord Christmas

20 weeks Halfway!

Disney on Ice

Thanksgiving hayride

December
Family Pictures

Preschool Christmas program

Christmas 

Here's to next year! 

 

Christmas

Oh how fun Christmas was this year!  Savannah Kate was no longer scared of Santa (majorly scared last year) and she was fully into "Alfie", our Elf on the Shelf.  It made Christmas so much more fun to prepare for this time.  I also taught her the story of Jesus' birth and why we celebrate Christmas.  She loved to talk about baby Jesus and sing him Happy Birthday.  We probably watched Rudolph and Frosty the Snowman 100 times and read every Christmas book we had every night, but I love that she was in the Spirit. 

 Our annual visit to see the trains at Northpark - actually went twice this year!

 Waiting in line for Santa

She was so proud of herself that as soon as we walked away she started jumping up and down saying "I did it!", "I wasn't scared!"  So adorable.  I'm sure it didn't hurt that I told her that this was the only way Santa was going to be bringing her any toys :)

This was the first year for Savannah Kate to be in a Christmas program at her preschool.  Starting in October, her class went to music every Thursday morning where they learned the songs to sing in the program.  She learned "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and "Angels We Have Heard on High".  Oh boy, did she ever love to sing these songs at the top of her lungs - especially when we were in the car!  The girl loves to sing :)  It was so sweet to see her class singing these precious songs, a memory I'll always have with me.

Our first time to have lights on the house!

1st Christmas was at our house before we left for our road trip.  SK loved her Pocahontas doll, pink horse truck and trailor and her dress up set.  It's funny to me that she's wearing the same pjs this year as last Christmas!

2nd Christmas with her cousins and my side of the family

 3rd Christmas and actual Christmas Day at Hunter's parent's house.  She got her very own saddle!

Loving her new saddle

I was 26 weeks!

 

Family Pictures

We were fortunate enough to have family pictures taken by Amanda Kate Photography again this year.  Her pictures are always great and Savannah Kate loves posing for her.  I'm 24 weeks along here so we were able to get some maternity shots too.  Here are my favorites:

Memory Book

I have a book called "Mom's One Line A Day" that is a five year memory book.  I started writing in it daily when Savannah Kate was a baby.  One of the neatest things about this book is that now that I'm three years into it, I can see a snapshot of our day from the previous two years when I'm writing in it.  It's fun to see how much SK has changed and to see what was going on in our lives on that day one and two years before.  Here's an example of a page in case this doesn't make sense:

 

As you can see, December 14th, 2011 is when I found out I was expecting our second child.  I remember being in complete shock.  Mainly because we had only tried for one month and secondly because this meant I would have two under the age of two!  It was a good kind of shock though and we were thrilled for SK to have a sibling.  I never could have imagined what was going to happen in the future and that those next four years on the page wouldn't be filled with stories of SK with her siblings (plural - since we thought we would be closer to three kids by now).

 

I'm choosing not to focus on what could have been.  It's Christmas and I have so much to be thankful for this year.  I know that the final two years in this book will be filled with happy memories of Savannah Kate with her little brother.  I truly cannot wait to fill in the pages and see what God has planned for us next.  It may not be what we had in our five year plan, but God always has a way of showing me that His plans are better and He is able to do more than I can imagine.

 

"Glory to God, who is able to do far beyond all that we could ask or imagine by his power at work within us"  Ephesians 3:20

 

 

Halloween 2013

Savannah Kate dressed up as Minnie Mouse for Halloween this year.  She was in love with the shoes and has wanted to wear them everyday since :)  We did have a headband with Minnie ears, but it just wouldn't stay on.  Even without the ears, she was a precious little Minnie Mouse who thoroughly enjoyed trick or treating this year.  Poor thing did not understand why we couldn't go again the next day :)

Halloween party at school

 Trick or treating with some of her best friends!



Half Way!!

We are 20 weeks away from meeting our miracle baby boy!  We are so excited, especially SK, who tells everyone we meet that she is having a baby boy :)  At least she doesn't call him sister anymore.

The pregnancy is going very smoothly, which is a huge praise!  Thank you so much for praying.  We are halfway there and are praying for an additional, uneventful 20 weeks.  I see my OB every 4 weeks and the high risk OB every 4 weeks.  So, it works out that I get to either see him or at least hear his heartbeat every 2 weeks.  Plus, he is kicking a lot more now so I'm getting lots of reassurance that he is doing okay in there.

Baby boy doesn't have a name yet, we are working on that.  For some reason, boy names seem to be harder.  I think we just aren't used to anything boyish since SK is so very girly and into all things princess.  It will come, we have some time!

18 week ultrasound. 

It took a very long time before he was still enough for this profile picture!

20 weeks!  And yes, my tree is already up :)