2013 Year End Review

I got this fabulous idea for a post from Casey so I thought I'd copy her!

We had a great year of family memory making.  Can't wait to see what is in store for 2014!

January
We had a fun New Year's Day party complete with traditional foods, friends, and fireworks.  I celebrated 31 years with dinner and a cute cake.

February
It was pretty low-key.  We celebrated Valentine's at a few different parties!

March
We got a new to us Buick Enclave!  We celebrated Easter and I got away to market in Dallas one weekend.

April
Bennett started T-ball for the first time and LOVED it.  We celebrated Rebecca quitting smoking for 1 year!  We went to Houston for my cousin's crawfish boil and caught an Astros game.

May
Mother's Day was special as we celebrated with lunch at POTC. Neil and I celebrated our 6 year anniversary.  My brother came in for a quick visit, as well.  Gammy turned 57!

June
I took a fabulous girls' trip to San Francisco.  Henry started swim lessons for the first time and LOVED it.  Bennett started his 4 year of lessons.

July
We got to see both sides of my family (French and Jones).  Neil and I took a fabulous trip to NYC with my dad and Carolyn.  We took a family beach trip to Watersound, FL with the Lewis crew.

August
Our sweet Henry turned 2!  We found out we were expecting a new addition to our family...Baby #3!  We started a new school year.

September
We celebrated the best grandparent's ever by telling them about Baby #3!

October
We took a family day trip to Dallas and realized we need to do it more often.  We celebrated Rebecca turning the BIG 3-0!  We had a little Dallas Market weekend.  We had a super-hero Halloween with Blue Batman with big muscles and IronMan.

November
We celebrated Thanksgiving in Ruston and Shreveport.  We loved being close to home instead of travelling 16 hours.

December
We had a BUSY December.  Our sweet Bennett turned 5 with a Ninja Turtle Party!  We had Christmas parties/fun galore.  I made it to 20 weeks pregnant (half-way there!)

I hope 2014 is as eventful (in a good way) as 2013.  Ready to see what it has in store for our family!

New Year's Eve Fun

New Year's Eve has sure changed in the last few years.  I remember always trying to come up with some fun plan and tried to fun some sparkly outfit to wear just to be let down because we never really had a plan.  I think it is just fun to play with the kids and do some sparklers!

We started out  the morning with Kid City and Chick-fil-a.  You can't go wrong with those 2 places with my 2 boys.  Drew and Jake met us at KC and Sam met us at CFA.  Bennett and Henry love being around friends!

They wanted me to get up in the playscape at Kid City.  The thing is 3 stories tall and my belly just wasn't allowing it!  I couldn't go very high so I took the pics I did take from floor 1.

Yes, Henry is biting Bennett's shirt.  I don't get it either. 

Henry and Jake-Jake

We went and picked up some sparklers after "rest time" for some festive fun.

Thankfully Gammy came over to spend the night with us to ring in the new year.  She kept the boys for me so I could go to Amy and Daniel's dinner party at Cantina.

I thought I would enjoy a Virgin Strawberry Daiquiri for my festive beverage.

Aren't they cute?

Amy and me