Remembering 2013...

2013 was a good year.  Like every other year, it was full of chaos & change.  But I'm realizing with age, that change IS life.  Things would be pretty boring if they always stayed the same.

I so love doing this blog post, looking back at the past year & seeing how much has changed.  How much the kids have grown & how much they have learned.  Its such a visible reminder of how fleeting time really is. Kids grow up in the blink of an eye.  Cherish the moments.  Laugh.  Smile.  Cry.

As this is my 3rd year putting together this review, I can't do it without looking back at the past years too.  Its just amazing to look back at what the kids were doing & learning at different points.  2012 in review.  2011 in review.

Here is a glimpse back at what 2013 meant for us:

January started out with a bang, when Logan learned to spell his name.  We played a lot.  Jeff's car tried to blow up.    I set some big new house painting goals.  And managed to take a break from painting to visit the zoo.

February we stayed busy & met up with some of our triplet friends.  We did more spelling!  The boys got a new room!  We sang & sang.  We played outside & played inside & played outside.  We baked.  We thought we finally had Logan poop trained, we were wrong.

March we met the Easter Bunny during Spring Break & found some other fun things to do.  We celebrated Easter.  Saw some dinosaurs.  And celebrated Easter again.

April gave us a Princess Bedroom!  More & more house projects got done.  We went bowling & had the flu. We had more springtime sickness, which caused us to miss the March of Dimes walk.  Olivia learned to write her name & we built a garden.

May is when we turned 3.5, which was full of ups & downs.  Our toy room got an amazing redo!!  We visited the dentist & the zoo.    Took pictures in the park.  Had a fun filled Memorial Weekend.  And continued to learn oh so much in pre-school.

June finally brought warm enough weather for a triple slip & slide & T-ball!  Hayden learned to spell his name, in the dark.  And LogaN learned to write his name!  We made the best of a rainy weekend, with a parade, bowling & the circus.  We went swimming at my favorite pool.  Jeff & I celebrated our 7 year Wedding Anniversary.  Olivia learned to ride a bike.  We spent tons of time outside!!

July brought a very fun filled trip to Minnesota.  We spelled some more.  This month 10 years ago is when Jeff & I met.  What a wild 10 years it has been.  We spent the weekend at Grandma & Grandpa Siebert's house celebrating Community Days.  We finished up our summer projects.  We had more Community Days fun.  And we camped in a Caboose.  I hate camping but somehow this is my favorite summer memory.

August started out with a bang at the county fair.  Jeff started a new job.  The kids each got their own teacher as they got split up for preschool.  We got started learning some creativity in our play.  We went to a Hot Air Balloon (and Wine) festival, helped our Great Grandparents celebrate their 65th Wedding Anniversary, went backyard camping & Hayden wrote his name with chalk!  Summer is so much fun!

September started with celebrating Addie & Ava's birthdays.  We "watched" some football.  Got our first Bibles from Church.  Did more & more cleaning, painting & organizing.  Started Sunday School & went shopping for Cotton Candy Grapes (yum!).  We had some triplet bonding time.  We FINALLY got Logan poop potty trained forever, finally.  Thank Heavens!!  We started celebrating fall with a trip to the pumpkin patch.

October saw us just keep growing up way too fast.  We got ready for a Pirates & Princesses birthday party.  And of course, did more painting.  We had an awesome (early) birthday party!!!  Hayden really started getting the hang of writing his name.  Olivia held a concert & sang, sang, sang.  It's her favorite thing to do!  We had more pumpkin patch fun.  Olivia got silly.  We acted our age.  I got old & started a new job.  And we had a great Halloween trick-or-treating dressed as Team Umizoomi!

November brought a beautiful day for fun & pictures in the park.  We also took family pictures at Church.  We had a 4 year check-up, we are getting TOO BIG!  The house projects continued.   We turned FOUR!!!!  I simply can not believe it!  We will never forget though how small we started.  We took our 4 year pictures.  And we endured another trip to the dentist.

December was busy, & I got behind on blogging.  We filled our house with holiday cheer.  We had a weekend filled with Christmas Program singing.  Our hall closet got re-made, rounding out my house projects for the year.  2014 house projects are going to be just as busy!  We visited with Santa, which went GREAT this year.  Our holidays were wild & busy.  We celebrated with lots of family at Christmas #1, Christmas #2, Christmas#3 & #4!

I have big aspirations for more house projects in 2014 & big aspirations for embracing all the other changes that life throws our way.  I have big aspirations for embracing 2014 for whatever it is.  The good, the bad & the ugly.  Because that my friends, is life.  And this year I'm resolving to embrace it all.