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2015 in Review - Part 2

You can see the first half of our year here 2015 in Review Part 1

July was a busy month.  We took a little time off to celebrate 4th of July with some friends.  A fun time, as always. 

Our local movie theaters have free movies over the summer so I took the kids to see their first movie.  They did very well.

We celebrated my Dad's birthday and did a lot more house work.





August was mostly just focused on the house.  We had a big push on work so that we could get moved in by the end of the month.  We were so happy to finally be able to move.




We even got to celebrate Bryan's second birthday in the new house!  The little, stinky two year old had a great birthday.  He also had a great 2 year check up.  28.2lbs and 37 inches of wild little boy.



The week after we moved into our new home, we got some more really amazing news.


September was a crazy month.  I decided that I wanted to throw a surprise 75th birthday party for my grandmother so we had a lot of work to do with getting moved in so that we could have the party.  But we pulled it off and she was totally surprised!


 We celebrated our 5th anniversary.


We celebrated my grandmother's actual birthday.

 We dealt with Colson's due date.  What an emotional day.


I took the kids to the Curious George exhibit at our local museum.  They had a blast.


We also got to see our newest little baby for the first time.  One ultrasound each month for four months.


October was a slower month.  We started taking Ashlyn to soccer.  She loved soccer, especially because her bff played too.


I took the kids to a local Fall festival.  They got to do a lot of Fall activities but it was such a warm day.  Not at all what we expected for a Fall festival!


Girls dinners started this month.  Two of my friends and I decided that once a month we were going to get together for a girls dinner.  Always a fun time.


We got to see our little smoosh again. 


November was another slower month.  Soccer continued.


We found out the gender of our sweet little baby and had a little gender party.


We celebrated my husband's birthday.


We celebrated Thanksgiving at my mom's house this year. 


 And another picture of our little smoosh.  This was the 16 week scan.  Such a hard day.


December is always a busy month.  Ashlyn turned 4!  We celebrated with a few close family members.  She was so excited and she loved having all of the attention.


 

We decorated gingerbread cookies.



We celebrated Christmas.  Christmas Eve with my mom's side of the family, Christmas day with my parents, the day after Christmas at our house with my dad's side of the family.  An amazing holiday, as usual!





We also celebrated my Mom's birthday.  Ashlyn took her Nana out to lunch for her birthday, just the two of them.  She loved having the one on one time with her Nana.  We went out to dinner as well.


And we got to end our year with another look at our little smoosh.  His 20 week scan (done at 21w2d) showed a perfectly healthy baby boy measuring about a week ahead at almost 1lb 12oz already!  His little kicks prove how well he is growing but I can't wait until May. 


We had a lot of ups and downs in 2015.  Here's hoping 2016 brings us nothing but love and happiness!

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