This year has been one of our best yet as a family of four! I have been very fortunate in my office to have nearly doubled the number of patients I'm seeing each week! Every time I count up my numbers I have to pinch myself as it just keeps growing! It's crazy to me that I get to help people each day AND get paid for it!
The Husband has also had a fantastic year teaching, in the five years he has been teaching at Eudora, he has been building a video program from the ground up. This year he is really seeing the results from all the hard work he and his students have put in! This fall they even had the opportunity to host a 12 hour film festival in Eudora - a lot of work but so worth it! The Husband was also busy this summer working in our basement! He was able to get all the prep work done including putting up sheet rock. Then we hired someone to come in for the mudding and taping and texture. Next he painted every square inch of the basement and put all the baseboards up leaving it completely ready for flooring - the final touch! But before we could have flooring put in, we had to rip out the nasty original carpeting upstairs and install the new flooring in the living room upstairs! Then we had carpet installed in the bedrooms upstairs and the entire basement. We have been enjoying that wide open space downstairs ever since! We've also been able to tackle some fun DIY projects that have been filling up my Pinterest boards! More on that later.
Mr Reid has shot up like a weed in the last year! He came to work with me until March -he became mobile in March rolling all over the place! He then started going to Miss Sharon's who is just around the corner from our house! He is always so excited to go play with all his little friends, which makes it a lot easier for momma to leave him each day. I've been fortunate enough to have Wednesday mornings and Friday afternoons off to be home with Little Man. In the summer we went to the wading pool with some friends from Eudora every Wednesday which was so much fun, I think we've got a little fish on our hands! Once the pool closed we took Miss B on walks every Wednesday and just played! Now that it's been a little chillier, we've spent our Wednesday mornings going to Laugh Out Loud or just snuggling at home in our basement! In November we celebrated his First Birthday with a Moustache Bash! I had so much fun creating his party! Little Man also started walking right around his birthday then really took off at Thanksgiving. Now we are running all over the place!
Miss B is still her opinionated self. She and Reid share an interesting dynamic. He LOVES her more than you can believe and she... Tolerates him. They are getting better, but there is still some room to grow on her part!
Our extended family has shared some exciting news with us this year too! Aunt Randine got engaged to Tray in August and we will be celebrating them next August! We got to spend Thanksgiving with Aunt Randine and soon to be Uncle Tray and his family! Then Uncle Jared proposed to Mandie in October! They got to come to Lawrence to celebrate Reid's first birthday with us in November. They asked me to be a bridesmaid, Mister Reid to be the ring bearer and they asked The Husband to officiate! We will be celebrating Uncle Jared and soon to be Aunt Mandie in June!
We headed back to Great Bend to visit Grammie and Grandpa Boone and Uncle Jordan the weekend before Christmas. On Saturday Great Bend transformed into a winter wonderland! They got about 14 inches of snow!! It was SO nice to be snowed in and just relax while there! I fortunate to be able to take the whole week of for Christmas. I don't think we got out of our PJ's but once or twice the whole week!
Here's a few pictures from our weekend with Grammie & Grandpa
Enjoyed the window seat while it snowed
Ate far too many treats
Watched daddy & grandpa shovel snow
Received WAY too many gifts!
Played to our hearts content
Ate Grannies Lasagna until we almost popped!
After Christmas we visited Grandma & Grandpa Robinson. Grandma Robinson was recovering from surgery so we had already exchanged gifts but we did get to enjoy a nice meal Grandpa Robinson prepared for us! Then Reid and Grandpa Robinson ran round and round - Reid LOVES to be chased!
We have been so blessed this year and we can't wait to see what 2014 had in store for our little family! I'll leave you with a video the Husband made of our time together this Christmas!
