Year in Review July-December 2013
In case you missed the first 6 months click here
July
This would be the month I am still in Zombie mode...oh you know where your baby still won't sleep through the night and is a horrible napper?
But look at this sweet face
I know precious right?
Daddy celebrated a birthday and we all went to Hibachi and Ice Cream to celebrate
My FIL had a birthday too and of course that was a no brainer for a treat...my cookies. He is a lover of golf (and my cookies) so I made these
Cole turned 11 months this month and started standing on his own...thankfully I was around to capture that bad boy on film
Sweet boy...
Being in Texas and it being Summer....it was hot. No need to describe how hot? It's Texas...so I busted out the blender and we made these...a BUNCH
only need 3 things...
3 cups of strawberries, 1/2 cup powdered sugar and 1/3 cup water.
Puree until some chunks of berries
remain....pour half out....puree the rest until smooth. Stir the 2
mixtures together...pour into molds
And ended the month with this meal that should be made again and again. We liked it that much
August
August is definitely a month I will not forget!
For many reasons....
Like the fact that we had 2 birthdays...
Oldest child turned 17 and youngest turned 1
Oldest not only turned 17, but this was the month of his first and last first day of school. Enter in the tears for Senior year
Time flies when your baby is growing up
Then youngest child turned 1
Or the time I Conquered my first ever mastitis with essential oils (only took nursing 6 babies to get one) you can read about it here
Or the convo I have frequently with hubs
or how we spend our evenings before bed with little boys
BUT ONE CAN NEVER FORGET THE FIRST TIME WE HAD A HOUSEGUEST IN OUR HOUSE THAT WASN'T INVITED. Nor will they come back again!
The L word....dreaded Lice
the laundry piles in the garage...a family of 8 and Lice don't mix
read about it here
I was ready for that month to be over
But at least my Paula Deen magazine came in for the month and we had a week of fantastic meals at the end of the month
September
Awe yes ...sweet September when I was driving to pick up a child from a friends and saw these at the curb...trash...to be thrown away....
and they then became mine!
Hello free! Made the Lice incident feel not so bad anymore!
September also brought on a month of fantastic foods...Must have been the change in season...Fall is my favorite time
We ate like Kings...(that must be where my extra hips came from)
from a soup that knocked my socks off to a dessert fit for us Kings
September also brought on a month of fantastic foods...Must have been the change in season...Fall is my favorite time
We ate like Kings...(that must be where my extra hips came from)
from a soup that knocked my socks off to a dessert fit for us Kings
(it was the rum sauce that was a dream...make extra to pour over ice cream)
Or how about some
Miss Lily turned 5...we had a carnival party for her...oh to be 5 again!
And rounding the month out? A little tooth extraction for #3's braces
bam those suckers are huge! And nope...we just did a local at the gums...didn't need to be put under!!!
October
My most favorite month of the year! Don't know if it's all the leaves changing...pumpkins or what, but I get giddy in October!
We had some great outdoor lazy afternoons before nap
I made a fantastic basil lasagna rolls with artichokes
Along with decadent treats. It was so easy it hurts yet has the richness of a high dollar dessert
To our first homeschool science experiment with gummy bears
that Reid kept eating faster than we could use. I'm surprised we ended up with 4
This would also be the month that Reid discovered he could get out of the crib. Yes he's 2.5 and no he never thought about it before. Life was good while it lasted
To Senior Homecoming
to the objects we find in our couches
October was a good...nondramatic month!
November
Hubs and I celebrated our 7 year non itch Read about my post on the meaning of the 7yr Itch Here
We actually got to escape go on a date....
We I chose Outback Steakhouse.... I mean when is the last time you have been there?
This was a great month to share my essential oils....and homemade stuff and more testimonies
Also finally got a few of sweet #6 and his constant hand warmer. His hand is here often....Bless his heart
Need a quick easy treat
Rounding the month out with our family at the house for a day of Thanksgiving
December
The month we look forward to every year and then when it comes we are sad to see it leave. I'm truly not ready for 2014
We got an ice storm this month that had the kids out from Fri-Wed from school. It was lovely
December brought back Elvis our elf...
We got an ice storm this month that had the kids out from Fri-Wed from school. It was lovely
December brought back Elvis our elf...
and my first ever Jury Duty that I can gladly get exempt from thanks to having babies for 17yrs straight
to the sad moment the baby gate after 5 years came off the stairs...we felt weird for a week or so
Hand warmer photo AGAIN...told you he loved it there
Hand warmer photo AGAIN...told you he loved it there
My girly night out with my daughters for Christmas
The fingerprints in the window sill I can't bring myself to wipe away
To the child who doesn't want to leave his lovey in the wash
To my kids growing up too fast
Merry Christmas everyone and Happy 2014
May this new year bring all the happiness and laughs and joys 2013 brought (except the Lice..I will do without)
1 year later.....
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