JANUARY: We celebrated the New Year and I bible journaled a lot. We celebrated my 26th birthday with my family early because of an ice storm, went shooting with my parents, and played with Giz. Josh started working with the Youth at our church and we had our first Game Night activity.
FEBRUARY: We went to a Super Bowl party with some people from our church and hung out with the youth, but the Panthers lost. :( We both had some snow days to take it easy, play with Giz, and start watching The Flash. Josh and I took Gracie and Josie up to tour Liberty, I bible journaled a lot, and Josh turned 27 on the 27th! We also took the youth group to Winter Jam on Josh's birthday.
MARCH: We started talking to some friends about buying their house and they let us come by and look around on the day we went to Charlotte to celebrate Josh's birthday with his family. We went for walks in the park and celebrated Easter with my family.
APRIL: We got our sweet baby Sammie in April. He hid from us the whole first day but then came out that night and slept with Josh. He is a little crazy but very sweet and cuddly. :)
((Normally the cold months of spring seem to take forever to pass to summer and they're not very eventful... BUT this coming April we will have the most exciting month of our lives when we have our baby boy.))
MAY: We had a successful Youth Sunday at church and the cats started to calm down and sit together. Ellie graduated from her K-5 class and the preschool year ended (what I thought was my last year working with April.) WE CLOSED ON OUR HOUSE on May 31st!
JUNE: We went out for our traditional anniversary dinner at Outwest (where we had our rehearsal dinner) and then headed to the beach for a couple nights. We started going for walks at Salem Lake and I watched the triplets for a week. At the end of the month, we took the youth group to camp.
JULY: My mom made us burgers for the 4th and then we went to see fireworks at the golf course. I had some lunches with Josh at Wake Forest and Chloe came to visit for a few days. We had VBS at church which was a super fun week spending time with Ellie, all of my kids, and the youth. We bought patio furniture for our back deck and Andrew helped us pick it up and unload it in the rain! Then we snuck away and crashed my parents' beach trip for one day.
AUGUST: THE OLYMPICS STARTED (my favorite time ever), I went on a quick beach trip with Katie and Meredith, and Sammie was super cute. I watched the triplets for 2 weeks and then FOUND OUT WE WERE PREGNANT on August 20th.
SEPTEMBER: We went to the beach for Labor Day with my family and my morning sickness (more like all day sickness) showed up in full force. These announcement pictures were taken at the only time I went out to the beach the whole weekend. We had our first visits to the doctor and saw our little 8 week old peanut baby. I stayed in bed and didn't take many pictures most days...
OCTOBER: Josh and I continued our Saturday morning Chick-fil-A breakfast tradition that we started toward the beginning of the pregnancy, and then he came to have lunch with me at Zaxby's one day after school. We had an ultrasound at 12 weeks (for a fetal scan) and our baby was jumping like crazy! :) I stayed sick and we took pictures when I was 13 weeks. Josh took me to the Motherhood store at the mall and we bought maternity clothes for the first time. Then we went to Liberty for Homecoming, with my parents, where we bought baby clothes and hung out with Matt. And then finally we went to the Fall Festival at church and hung out with Ellie at Trunk or Treat.
NOVEMBER: We had an early 3D ultrasound and found out we're having a boy and my mom and sister threw us a gender reveal party! We bought a new Christmas tree at Lowes, took pictures when I was 18 weeks, and gave the cats a cute cardboard house from Target. We celebrated Thanksgiving with both of our families and (finally) got a couch for our living room!
DECEMBER: We went to Roanoke with my parents and visited Matt, Grams, and Grandaddy. We got Christmas cards and spent lots of time in the living room with our new tree. I was 23 weeks and 2 days on Christmas and we spent the day with my family. The day after Christmas we went to Atlanta to celebrate Christmas with Josh's family for a few days.
I'll remember 2016 as the year we got Sammie, bought our house, and found out we were pregnant with our baby boy!!!!! I started this year praying that God would give us a baby and I still am amazed everyday that I am pregnant with our first child. This has been such a good year... but I think 2017 will be the best year yet. :)
XOXO
DECEMBER: We went to Roanoke with my parents and visited Matt, Grams, and Grandaddy. We got Christmas cards and spent lots of time in the living room with our new tree. I was 23 weeks and 2 days on Christmas and we spent the day with my family. The day after Christmas we went to Atlanta to celebrate Christmas with Josh's family for a few days.
I'll remember 2016 as the year we got Sammie, bought our house, and found out we were pregnant with our baby boy!!!!! I started this year praying that God would give us a baby and I still am amazed everyday that I am pregnant with our first child. This has been such a good year... but I think 2017 will be the best year yet. :)
XOXO
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