The end of 2013!

2013 was good to our household! This year was so much fun, and finally a year without any major events - no babies born, no houses moved, no jobs changed. Only one big thing changed this year, and that came cruising in at the very end (the week before Christmas, to be exact)...and that is a new car. We traded in the trusty ol' Sienna for a sleek gray 4Runner, woohoo! I have dreamed about owning this car for years (probably since the days of my first drivers license, crazy!) and now we have one! Our main reason for trading in the Sienna was simply because we wanted all 3 kiddos to be in the same row, versus having to climb back through the captains chairs to unbuckle Logan. Plus, we all know the 4Runner is better for mountains and trails, where we someday hope to live! :) Or at least travel to, lol.

Highlights of 2013:
*Blake turned 1! Chocolate cake all around :)
*lots and lots of playtime! After Blake was about 18 months old, the boys started playing together more and it has been tons of fun! Lots of fights of course, but that's what brothers are for ;)
*Vacation to Puerto Rico! We all had so much fun and can't wait to go back again.
*Our mini-getaway to Miami for a Magic/Heat game and night at a swanky hotel!
*Visiting friends!!
*My first, second, and third 5ks! It's been a lot of fun running and working out with the group this year, can't wait to really get back into after baby#3 arrives. Hopefully get around to that half marathon one of these days!
*Logan started going to preschool three days a week and loves it.
*Finding out that we are expecting baby boy#3 in May 2014!!
*Hosting Thanksgiving at our house this year with all the fam.
*Not a highlight, but we had a nice service remembering the life of my grandfather, Papa Jake. He is missed! I'm glad the boys were able to spend as much time as they did with him.
*Celebrating Logan's 4th birthday with his friends!
*Christmas both at home and with family to finish off the year!
*Reorganizing the entire house: cleaning out our garage so we can park the car, redoing our master bath, decluttering the kitchen, and organizing the closets! Whew!!

That last part has been an in-progress thing since October (we really got motivated after we found out that we were introducing a new family member in May...we can't live in chaos with 3 children!!) but we've really been working on it a lot this past month and finished up the last parts this week. All that is left now is to have a garage sale and get rid of some of our extra junk!

I'm looking forward to this upcoming year...2014 looks pretty promising so far! In just the next couple of weeks we will be celebrating Blake's 2nd birthday (where does the time go!? I feel like he was just born!) and gearing up for baby#3's arrival. We have a wedding in Clearwater to go to in three weeks, and we just bought plane tickets to go to Albuquerque at the very end of January...I'm super excited for our first us-only trip since our 1st anniversary road trip to Charleston!

Happy New Years Eve!