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.