Looking at my blog made me sad because it's been almost a year since I've updated! I like to keep a record of our goings on and this blog has been it usually. So, I'm taking the time to finish up our 2014 in one post so that I can move on to the new and exciting things of 2015!
Lily finished up her rec. soccer season on Team England. They, of course, dominated because they were such a good team and worked together to well. Lily found her niche as a "Sweeper" and tended mostly to the goal. She is a great defensive player. We're excited to hopefully start back up in the fall. She also finished up her season on the Lady Rapids. I don't think she'll play on that team again, sadly. They decided to move up from an Academy team and turn into a Competition team, which meant they would be playing tournaments on Sundays. We love the Lady Rapids and had so much fun playing with them when we could.
William turned 8 years old in April and decided to be baptized as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He was baptized and confirmed in the Smyrna, TN building by Matthew on July 19th. He wanted to wait until Carrie's family could be here for it. Matthew spoke on Baptism and Carrie spoke on the Holy Ghost. We are so proud of him for making this choice. William is such a special boy and it was wonderful to see the change that a decision like this can make.
Lily finished up her 1st grade school year in Ms. Smith's class.
William finished up 2nd grade in Ms. Byrd's class.
Last Day of School
Over the summer, Carrie's family came to Tennessee and we had so much fun. We celebrated the 4th of July with them. We watched the Smyrna Fireworks show from our porch. We had an awesome party at Mom and Dad's complete with pie eating contest, water balloons, and fireworks.
Our apartments offered swim lessons over the summer. It was $5 a kid. What? It was awesome. William and Lily loved it.. most of the time. But, I'm mostly grateful that we have conquered the fear of water and that they are comfortable to swim. William was so fearless and it was good for him to learn what to do once he jumped in! Lily was so scared of the water and it was great to see her loosen up and master the back stroke! They got to have an ice cream party.
William and Lily started school back up at the beginning of August.
William is in 3rd grade in Ms. Duke's class.
Lily is in 2nd grade in Ms. Pollock's class.
Jane turned 1 on August 12th! How did she get so big? She tore her cupcake apart. We had a party for her at Mom and Dad's and everyone came to celebrate with us.
Her token 1 year picture!
I made this collage to see her change through the year.
Shortly after Jane's birthday, we moved back into Mom and Dad's house and it's been exactly what we needed. We lived in our apartment for about 5 months and ended up needing to break our lease. It's nice to be back home.
October was a pretty full month for us. We had fall break and went to the pumpkin patch to get our pumpkins to carve.
We had Halloween, which was FREEZING! I was able to make Lily and William's costume. Lily was Little Red Riding Hood and William was Emmett from the Lego Movie. By the time I had gotten those finished I had to resort to buying a strawberry costume for Jane.
Matthew went to Atlanta to do a job for work and I was able to drive down and spend the weekend with him. He did work for an annual party for The Walking Dead at Terminus. When he wasn't working, we got to tour the Coca Cola Factory and the highlight of that was trying all the different Coke products through out the world. Matthew was excited that they had Kuat, his favorite drink in Brazil. We were also invited to attend The Walking Dead party and got to meet some of the actors from the show, see some zombies, and eat some amazing food.
We got a few family pictures taken by Keaven in our backyard.
We sold our Sentra towards the end of year. We've needed to upgrade to a family car and so we had to say goodbye to this guy. I bought it the summer before Matthew and I got married.
William started to attend Cub Scouts on Wednesday nights since he turned eight. He has loved it. He got his Bobcat badge and it was sweet to have him put the bobcat badge on me at the pack meeting.
We had an awesome Christmas. We finally updated our tree and had it in our hallway. We did a lot of our traditions like getting new ornaments and I made pajama pants.
2014 was a crazy, but good year.
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