2013: A Look Back

2013 will be over in just a few hours and I have to say that I’m more than ready to ring in 2014!!   2013 brought with it a lot of personal accomplishments for me.  I lost 38 lbs and completed 3 races, including my very first Spartan Sprint!  The past 12 months have been a fun and busy year for our family filled with parties, vacations and outings, but I’m excited to start 2014 and begin a new chapter in our family’s life.

See ya 2013…..Bring on 2014!!
 

January

• Started Weight Watchers
• Bowling outing with Anthony & Me
• Taylor’s Birthday party
• Family fun day at Sport Time USA
• Kindergarten Registration
• All three of us got sick with the flu :(

February

• Fun in the snow (Nor’easter blizzard)
• Swapping valentines at school
• (another) week with Wally (preschool project)
• Girls weekend trip to Foxwoods & Mystic, CT

 

March

• Tae-Kwon-Do trial lesson
• Trip to Florida to visit my mom & stepdad
• Easter egg coloring & hunt
• My birthday brunch at Xavier’s on the Hudson
• Bowling play date with Anthony’s BFF, Tyler

 

April

• Anthony turns 5!
• RJ’s Birthday Party
• Anthony’s 1^st day of T-Ball

 

 

May

• Mother’s Day dinner at Restaurant X
• More T-Ball games
• Gavin’s Birthday Party
• Crazy hair day at preschool
• The pool opens!
• Memorial Day Weekend BBQs

June

• Anthony’s “graduates” from Preschool
• Gilly’s graduation party
• Matthew’s Birthday party
• More T-Ball games
• Swimming and outdoor fun
• I completed my first Spartan Sprint!

 

July

• Watching 4^th of July fireworks from our window
• Vacation with my extended family to Niagara Falls
• Damian’s 1^st Birthday party
• Anthony gets a new pair of glasses
• Crazy hat day at Preschool
• More swimming
• Birthday parties for Chase & Aiden
• Kindergarten orientation day
• Had family photos professionally taken at a local park
• Put our 1^st house up for sale (eeek!!)

August

• Soaking in the final days of swimming
• Kindergarten bus orientation
• Fishing at the local lake with Daddy
• Birthday parties for Gilly, Vinny & Quincy
• Found a buyer for our house & intensified our search for a new house
• Girls weekend trip to Hershey, PA to see Justin Timberlake/ Jay Z concert

 

September

• Anthony’s 1^st day of Kindergarten
• I completed my first 5k Color Run!
• Stephen & Petra’s Engagement party
• Play date at Sport Time USA with Anthony’s BFF, Tyler
• Attended the world’s largest picnic in NYC (a Guinness World Record) sponsored by Hellmanns
• Hit my weight loss goal!!
• Continue the search for a new house

 

 

 

October

• Family apple picking trip at local farm
• Kindergarten Halloween Parade & Party
• Birthday party for Connor & Paige
• I completed my first Ridiculous Obstacle Race!
• Continue the search for a new house

November

• Celebrating thanksgiving with our family
• Steven & Colette’s Wedding
• Trip to NYC to see Lion King (Anthon’s 1^st Broadway show)
• Found our forever home!

December

• Ride on the Polar Express (Essex, CT)
• Celebrate our last Christmas in our house
• Continue to pack up the house
• Close on the sale of our 1^st home

 

From our family to yours.  Wishing you a very Happy New Year.  Cheers to 2014!!