2013

2013.  What a year you were.  Busy, hectic, and crazy, but oh so full of wonderful blessings.  Here is our 2013 year end review.

January:  We celebrated Alabama winning another National Championship!  And our newest nephew was born, sweet baby Will!

February: Our little Nug started pulling up, and getting into everything :)

March: Spring Break Houston with my best friends Heather and Aimee and of course Maddie!  We also celebrated Avery's first Easter in Birmingham while house hunting!

April: Mimi and Papa came to visit, and we sold/closed on our first home in Texas.

Bye House!

 May:  Our little Nugget turned 1! We also took Avery's 1 year old pictures. But the busiest few weeks was when we closed on our house in Vestavia, moved at the end of the month, and went to Orange Beach with Matthew's family!

June: Avery and I hung out in the Magic City while M finished up his fellowship in Houston.  We also spent a few days up in Nashville, which is when I think Ashley officially became Avery's favorite person.  We also hung out with our favorite cousins as J and K adopted Aves and me for a few weeks ;)

July: Heather, Russ and Maddie came down for the 4th of July party at Ed and Shawn's.  And we went to Florida for Smith family vacation.

August: We celebrated M's 30th birthday with friends here in the Magic City, I started back to graduate school, Avery started Mother's Day out 3 days a week, and Matthew passed his Molecular Genetics boards!  M and I took a two day trip to the beach to celebrate!  

September:  We spent Labor Day in Memphis with my grandparents; the weekend ended with a trip to the Children's ER at Lebonheur when Avery woke up with a 105.5 degree fever.  Football season started, and we taught Avery how to say, "Roll Tide!".  At the end of the month we went to Nashville to celebrate mine and Ashley's birthdays.

October: I went to Houston for a week to help my dear friend Kelly with their newest addition, sweet baby Jonas. M held down the fort here in Bham and did a marvelous job.  Sent her to school dressed to the nines everyday, and never forgot to put a bow in her hair :).  Nug was a strawberry for Halloween, and was the sweetest thing I have ever seen!

November:  We went to see Grandma and Granddaddy Wayne at the beginning of the month.  Then celebrated Thanksgiving with both sides of the family in Lexington (went to a UK game) and Cinci.  

December: Christmas festivities took up the majority of our month.  Always a good problem to have :)  We also got to see some of our best friends get hitched the weekend before Christmas.  

We rang in the new year with some of our Nashville friends (Allens, Joneses, Foxes, Hasselbrings) at Steve and Jill's house.  It has been our New Year's Eve tradition for 7 years! (Although we missed 1 year when we were living in Houston)  Fun night with good friends.  Happy New Year everyone!  May your 2014 be a year of wonderful change and abundant blessings!

We spent the night in an intense Wii couple's tournament.  Spoiler Alert: M and I did not win.

Christmas in Memphis

 We celebrated Christmas with my Mimi and Papaw (and aunt, cousins, on my dad's side of the family) the Saturday after Christmas.  Here are the pics from that.  I promise everyone this is my last and final Christmas post!  I know you don't care if I were to put it all into one post, but it bothers me and my Type A brain.  It's just not organized.  So, there you go.

Dinner at Abuelos on Friday night.

Grand kids and Great grand kids.  

Giving Mimi loves.

On to the New Year!  Fully expect posts to become more sporadic soon.  I am back in school :(

Hardison Family Christmas

We started off Hardison Christmas at the annual 26th Lunch at Grandma and Granddaddy Wayne's.  As usual the food was delicious, and all I'm going to say is that Avery and I ended up at the big table again.  Sorry everyone, I guess we know who the favorite is ;) 

Then after the New Year, M and I hosted the immediate family's Christmas.  We usually celebrate it the weekend before Christmas, but because of Geoff and Mollie's wedding it was moved to that weekend.  Unfortunately this was before we knew that Auburn was going to be in the National Championship game and that J would be going, so we missed him this year!  Hopefully next year all this craziness will not be going on... Except we are always hopeful here in AL that the Crimson Tide will be going to the National Championship ;)  It was a great weekend, and David and Sandra were a big help watching Avery for a few hours Thurs and Friday for me so I could go into work, while they were already watching Will and Sam!  

Aren't they the sweetest!

Avery got a big girl chair with her name on it from Papa and Mimi.  She loves it!

Completely forgot to post pictures from celebrating Christmas with my grandparents in Memphis.  Will get around to it hopefully sooner rather than later.