I left off in November, so here we go from there...
November-
*I don't really remember much other than we went to Ohio for Thanksgiving.
December/January-
*Basketball started to pick up and Daniel began to get busier and busier, but loved coaching.
*Everyone came into town for Christmas. Daniel's parents had come back over Thanksgiving. Katy came home from school, Joel and Kristen came from Alabama, Michael and Demet came out from California. It was a whole house full and we ended up not having enough beds, so Katy and JoAnn shared a room. I loved pretty much every minute of it, since I am huge on family time during Christmas.
*On Christmas morning we had our own little family Christmas. Then that afternoon we got together with Daniel's family and had our scavenger hunt, dinner and present time. After which all the guys went to go see a movie together.
*The day after Christmas we drove over to Columbus, had Christmas with my parents. Daniel had to come back on the 27th for basketball, but the kids and I stayed in Ohio since Michele and Ty were coming up that day. I spent the next couple days with them and then flew by myself with both kids to Tampa, where we met Daniel after he flew out of Indy and we went down to Boca Grande for a while.
*Boca was beautiful and a very welcomed break from the freezing cold Indiana December weather that I am dreading again this year. Some where in here was New Years Eve, but for the life of me I cannot remember what we did to celebrate. I know Daniel's parents and Katy were also in Boca so I'm sure we did something for dinner and then Daniel and I put the kids down and probably passed out before midnight.
*At some point we went out on a boat and I know we have a very similar picture of JoAnn on her first boat ride when she was just a few months old.
*After about a week there Daniel had to fly back to Indy for basketball, but I wanted to spend some time with Michele, so JoAnn, Isaiah and I stayed with her from Thursday to Monday. We met her now fiance, David and were able to actually spend quite a bit of time together. It had been far too long since we had been able to spend more than a day or two at a time with each other.
*JoAnn loved being at Aunt Michele's since she got her hair and nails done just about everyday (so not my specialty) and I'm pretty sure Michele loved being able to do it even more.
*I flew back from Tampa by myself with two kids. I seriously don't know why I was thinking that would be a good idea other than I really wanted to see my family and I wasn't sure how to make it work if I didn't.
February-
*THE BIGGEST NEWS from the past year...I found out that I was expecting another baby. That's right since the last time I wrote I went through a whole pregnancy and we now have another baby! Crazy. (I'll get to him when I get to September.)
*Isaiah turned one.
*The doctors felt like Isaiah was too small for his age and we went through about four months of trying everything I could to get more calories in him and build up his muscles and ended up seeing a specialist at the Riley (the children's hospital downtown) who basically told me there was nothing wrong and she barely saw any of what the pediatrician had seen at his one month check up.
March-
*I had my first ultrasound and found out (rather early) that we were having another boy!
*Daniel's basketball team went to sectionals and played in Jasper, Indiana so we all went for the weekend and stayed at the hotel. It reminded me a lot of playing in tournaments for soccer growing up. They ended up loosing a really close game to the team that was supposed to win it all.
*Daniel went to the Philippines for a few days right after basketball season ended, so the kids and I headed over to Ohio to spend some time with my parents and to celebrate my dad's birthday.
April-
*The only thing I remember is my parents came over right before Easter and my mom had gotten JoAnn the colored bubbles from Crayola, which I promptly threw away immediately since they turned EVERYTHING blue and I mean EVERYTHING. It was awful.
May-
*We bought our first house. I love the house and love the location, but didn't really love the whole process of looking for a place.
June-
*We moved into our house and 10 days later Daniel went to the Philippines again.
*Daniel and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary.
*JoAnn and I watched the Fishers fireworks with Ryan, Heather, a few friends and all their kids, while Daniel tried to get over jet lag and Isaiah konked out.
July-
*Daniel went back to the Philippines for a third trip. This time it was with Covenant's basketball players, so it was neat for him to take some of the players he coached to where we lived.
*JoAnn turned 4 and Daniel turned 32.
*I managed to talk Daniel into taking care of JoAnn and Isaiah for a couple days while I went to Ohio to a bridal shower for my friend Kristin, who is getting married next week. It was the first time I had been away from the kids over night in well over a year. It was only one night, but it was nice to have a little break and give the kids a little quality daddy time.
August-
*The doctor was concerned that the baby was not growing as big as she had wanted him to, so I spent the whole last month of my pregnancy going in for doctor appointments to make sure he was growing okay.
*The last day of the month I had another ultrasound to see how much the baby had grown in the past three weeks and the doctor ended up calling me to tell me that even though he had grown she thought we needed to go ahead and have the baby early. I was already 38 weeks so it wasn't like he would be too early, just earlier than we had planned.
September-
*Daniel's parents were gone so my parents came over to be at the hospital while Daniel and I went in for the c-section and the kids went over to Ryan and Heather's for a couple nights and on September 1, Nathaniel was born. He was 6 lbs. 3 oz., 20 inches and absolutely perfect.
*Unlike Isaiah's birth there was nothing too crazy, it was pretty much your standard c-section delivery and everyone was healthy.
*The kids adjusted to another baby in the house and fell in love almost instantly with Nathaniel.
*Two and a half weeks after Nathaniel was born I took the kids with Grandma, Papa, Aunt Boo, Uncle Joel, Uncle Ryan, Aunt Heather, Avery, Ella, Eli and a few others to an apple orchard and pretty much from that point on life has gone back to its normal crazy self.
October-
*Nathaniel just had his one month check up and is weighing in at 10 lbs. and 22 inches. He is my biggest baby at one month jumping from the 6th percentile at one week to the 46th percentile in weight. And he is actually starting to get some chubby little rolls on his arms and legs. He is the only one of the three to have that. I love it!
Well, that pretty much catches us up. I know there are many things I left out, but this will have to do and I will try to be better about not waiting so long before I write again.