Saturday, January 7, 2012

Happy New Year

Sorry, I know this is about a week late, where did the time go?  My sister did a New Year's blog post with a recap of 2011 and I thought it was cute so I decided to do one too.

January - We went to my Grandpa's funeral and a few days later had a scare with Lucas where we ended up in the hospital.  Wow, we did not start out the year very well.  But on the bright side, Lucas learned to say "please".

February - Ryan got a job offer with Lawrence Livermore National Labs. Yay!

March - We took Lucas to see farm animals and have his first pony ride.  I also started tutoring high school students in Math.

April - Lucas had his first Easter egg hunt and we went green and started using reusable shopping bags.

May - Lucas turned 2 and we started potty training. We also spent a lot of time visiting Ryan on campus while he finished up his research.

June - Ryan defended his thesis and passed! We also spent a lot of time playing outside in the sprinklers, at the pool, and at the duck pond.

July - We went to Brasil!  We also said good bye to family and friends, packed up our apartment, and moved to California.

August - We lived in a hotel for three weeks before moving into our first real house; we don't own it but it has a yard and a garage so we're still pretty much in love with it.  We also went driving around, sight seeing, and eating Ghirardelli sundaes in San Francisco.

September - We made some new friends and spent a lot of time unpacking and getting settled into our new home.  Lucas graduated from a crib to a toddler bed.

October - We went to the Discovery Museum with Grandpa Crapo, and Lucas went Trick or Treating for the first time.

November - We celebrated our 5th anniversary and went on a family trip to San Diego.

December - We had a fun Christmas visiting both sets of parents and lots of Brothers and Sisters.  Lucas had a blast playing with cousins.

I had fun looking back at all our old blog posts to see what we had done throughout the year.  There were also a bunch of craft and recipe posts and I was pretty impressed by myself, and remembered a few recipes that we need to make again.  We had a pretty good year and I'm looking forward to making this year just as good, if not better.

4 comments:

Crystal and Kyle said...

Hi Katie! It's been forever, I haven't done much blogging lately, life has been super busy with summer over and trey starting preschool. I was cleaning out my drawers the other day and I'm pretty sure I have one of your nursing bra's still. I'd really like to mail it back to you. If you would like to write me your address I'll send that to you. Thanks for loaning it out to me. Sorry I've had it so long!

Sheri E. said...

What a fun recap! I know what you mean, it was really fun for me to look back over old posts from the year and see everything we did. Lucas has grown up so much in a year.

Karen C. said...

My goodness, you really have had a busy year. My favorite part of your year was when you moved to California so I could see you more often. Lucas has grown so much! He changed from a toddler into a little boy.

John said...

That's a lot of accomplishment for one year. We're glad you guys live so much closer.