Goodbye, 2019!

2019 was another wonderful year. Carter completed kindergarten and started 1st grade. Elise completed 3 year old preschool and moved upstairs to the "big kid" preschool class. I stayed in my same 3 year old classroom which was nice. As I have every year since 2016, I was reminded of how the Goodbye, 2015! post was the last one I wrote before Jeremy's accident. Thinking of that each year is another reminder to be thankful for everything we have, most of all those we love! I'm excited to look back over a year full of love and look forward to another year full of adventures. My photo recap from last year can be found here, 2017 here, 2016 here, 2015 here, 2014 here, and 2013 here. Here's a little snapshot of our 2019 through pictures.

January

We celebrated the start of the new year with our friends at a party at their house.

We celebrated Oma's birthday.

We celebrated dad and Jeremy's birthday.

February

Carter participated in his first Boy Scout Pinewood Derby.

Elise and I enjoyed Mommy and Me night at school.

We celebrated Valentine's Day.

Carter lost his 3rd tooth!

March

Carter got to dress up for book character day at his school.

We got some snow!

We celebrated Elise's 4th birthday.

Carter got a new bike without training wheels!

We went on a spring break trip to Oklahoma City.

April

We went to an Easter Egg Hunt.

We celebrated Easter.

Carter got to go on his first Boy Scout campout.

May

Carter got to be a narrator in his kindergarten musical.

We celebrated Mother's Day with a family bike ride.

We celebrated Ty's birthday.

Carter had field day at school.

Carter had his last day of school.

We got to watch Elise during her performance day at gymnastics.

We celebrated Rocky's retirement with our family.

June

We celebrated Father's Day with another family bike ride.

We celebrated Flamingo Day.

July

We celebrated the 4th of July.

Ty and I celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary.

We went camping for the first time as a family.

We got to check out the new splash pad by us that even has water slides!

We celebrated my birthday.

We enjoyed a Harry Potter Party at the library.

August

We celebrated my grandpa's 90th birthday.

Carter had his first day of 1st grade.

September

Elise had her first day of preschool.

I was officially accepted into the Boston Marathon for 2020!

We enjoyed the state fair.

October

We visited the pumpkin patch.

Carter went on a field trip to the Gilcrease Museum.

Carter and I went to a Mummy and Me dance at his school.

The kids carved pumpkins mostly by themselves this year.

We celebrated Halloween.

November

We got to see Uncle Mike and visited Silver Dollar City.

Carter started reading Dog Man (Hombre Perro) books and got really into chapter books.

Oma and Opa were in town and got to go to Friends and Family Night at Carter's school.

The kids, my mom, and I went back to Silver Dollar City with our free tickets from the Run to the Lights 5k.

We celebrated Thanksgiving (and Ty participated in No Shave November).

December

We visited Santa at Bass Pro.

Carter had his first grade music program.

Carter turned 7 years old!

We celebrated Christmas in Topeka with the Cox side of the family.

We celebrated Christmas at home with the Hurford side of the family.