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Anyway, I'M BACK! I'm going to do a quick re-cap of this year and all its craziness. I'm sure that the majority of those who read this blog know all of this but just in case, here we go!
January: Nothing. Mike had surgery and I was sad that we didn't know the future of our family at that point. We didn't know if he would be able to attend his training and we didn't know if we would be moving..... we also weren't even certain of his job security at the time. It was a difficult month.
February: Nothing. It was cold in Wyoming.
March: Mike leaves for training in Texas-- WOO HOO!!!! We were SO excited! Max and I went to stay with family in Illinois while he was in training for the next 10 weeks.
April: Max & I were enjoying spring in Illinois. I went on a weekend trip to Nashville with my girlfriends and had a blast! I also did my first 5k. We were told that we would not be moving... we would be going back to Wyoming after Mike's training. I bawled my eyes out. Max began talking a little more... I was usually the only one who understood but he was trying!
May: Mike graduated from his training (and he was awarded the Distinguished Graduate award! Yes, I'm bragging) and headed back to Wyoming for a week before joining us in Illinois for 2 weeks of leave and then we would all fly back to WY together. Mike submitted his Base of Preference list. We weren't hopeful but it was worth a shot! The day before Mike came to Illinois, we found out that we were granted our #1 base of preference!!!! We were moving back to Illinois in August and Mike would begin his new job that he had trained for in Texas. ECSTATIC does not even begin to describe our feeling at that time, and still to this day I am in shock that we are here!!! For our military friends who do not know, this is literally home! My hometown is 45 minutes from here. We went to college 20 minutes from here and Mike actually lived in this town while we were dating. We are within 1-1.5 hours from both of our parents. Max gets to see his grandparents anytime!! AND a bonus for me is, I live between 10 and 45 minutes from all of my best friends. It's FANTASTIC! So, needless to say, we were VERY happy to get this news. Mike flew to Illinois and we got to be a family again after 2.5 months! Yay!!! We also needed to figure out our living situation for August while we were here. We looked at a house to rent and after some discussion we realized that we would be paying the same amount every month for rent that we would for a mortgage..... Soooooo we...... BOUGHT A HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In the middle of this, Mike turned 28. May was CRAZY.
June: Mike & I attended a close friend's wedding and then flew back to WY to spend our last couple of months there. We bought some new furniture for our new house :-) and I turned 26!
July: We packed and sold stuff that we didn't want to take with us. Thanks to technology and an awesome realtor, we were able to do all of the paperwork for our house from a distance. Max and I said goodbye to Wyoming and flew to Illinois for the LAST time so that I could close on our house and Mike would join us 10 days later once he was released from work. We closed on our house and waited for Mike to get here with our stuff so we could move in!
August: Mike came with the moving truck on the 1st and we moved in! 1 week later, Max turned 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had a small get together at our new house and then took him to run around at Monkey Joe's (an indoor heaven for kids to run around and play on those inflatable bouncy house things and slides) he loved it. A week after Max turned one, we got rid of his best friend... his pacifier (his bah, as he called it). I dreaded the day BUT it was unbelievably easy! He dropped his last one into the toilet and so I told him that we flushed it. He said "okay" and that was that! Never cried for it again. I'm also still in shock about that! I went to Chicago with my girlfriends for a weekend. Mike started his new job.... which he LOVES. Yay!!
September: The 3 of us spent Labor Day weekend at the lake with friends. Max had SOO much fun swimming! I had to make him get out of the pool. Max had his first injury that required a hospital visit. He was running in my bedroom and fell and hit his cheek on the bed. It split open and I thought he needed stitches. They were able to glue it instead but my poor baby's perfect face now has a scar :-( We were enjoying our new house and Mike's new job with a great schedule (which we had not been used to). We were getting settled into our new home and life and we were loving it when....... I found out that I was expecting. Yep, I'm pregnant! Surprise!! I was only 3 weeks when I found out. It was SO early but I just KNEW that something was up. I was right.
October: I was in one of my best friend's weddings. I mostly spent this month sick and moody. I was never sick with Max and this time, I definitely was. I didn't throw up daily, but I did almost daily. I was EXHAUSTED. I forgot how tired you are during the first trimester and I was quickly reminded. I kept thinking that I didn't remember it being this hard at the beginning with Max and that's because he was my first. This time around, I was tired and sick and wanted to do nothing but lay on the couch and I couldn't because I had a 2 year old to take care of. Whew. It was a lonnnnggg month. Max was supposed to be Buzz Lightyear for Halloween but he threw a fit and refused to wear his costume so we handed out candy instead of trick or treating.
November: Mike was in his best friend's wedding. We celebrated our 3 year wedding anniversary. I had my first doctor's appointment at 11 weeks and we got to see our newest baby for the first time via ultrasound. Holy cow, this is REAL! It hadn't seemed real up until that point. I was growing so much faster than I did with Max so I thought that there could have been multiples but nope, just 1! Which means, I'm just way bigger this time. GREAT. We celebrated Thanksgiving with family and hosted our first family get together at our new home! It was so great to have everyone to OUR house and there was plenty of space and toys for the kids in the playroom. The nausea has subsided for the most part, fortunately!! Max is a full blown little man. He talks 24/7. I mean the kid doesn't stop. I have to tell him at naptime and bedtime that it's time to stop talking because it never ends!! I love to hear him and have conversations with him though. He has the cutest voice ever!!!!!!!! He has also decided to start going potty on his own... he even went in a public restroom after telling Mike that he needed to go and therefore has forced me into potty training.
December: We decorated our home for Christmas! I am so excited to spend Christmas in our new home this year. The presents under the tree are tempting Max but he keeps reminding himself "I have to wait". He literally says that to himself everyday LOL we started potty training a week ago. After one REALLY rough day, he has been doing AWESOME. That will be another post for later this week.
Whew! Now, I'm exhausted after writing all of that. Now you all can see how crazy our life has been this year and cut me a little slack for zero blog posts for an ENTIRE YEAR :-( Now that we are settled into our life again, I will try to keep up! We have an exciting couple of weeks coming!! We have an ultrasound on the 23rd to find out baby #2's gender and then it's Christmas!!! I am so excited to see Max's face on Christmas morning when he sees what Santa brought him :-D Stay tuned!!!!!!
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