January
*No big travels or plans. We played and stayed home! Abby took her first steps!!!
*Mike and I went to our first movie premier ;)
February
*More time at home and thankfully we had a few days where we could even go outside to the park!
*Mike and I took a trip downtown overnight around Valentines Day <3
March
*Alisha attended the Much More women conference
*Lots of play date with friends + more time outside!
*Went to timber ridge lodge for a one night stay at a water park :)
*Our family + the grandparents all went to Arizona on a large family vacation!
*We attended the final four basketball tournament in Arizona!! Once in a lifetime experience.
April
*Mackenzie took a trip to visit her cousins in Kansas
*We hosted our first Easter
*Mackenzie turned 3!!!! She got her parents to herself for a night downtown to celebrate! (Her birthday party was sofia the first).
May
*Saw Aladdin downtown for Alisha's Birthday
*Basement construction started
*Abby received 3 stitches in her lip after falling and biting it open :(
June
*the girls had lots of fun outings (lambs farm, morton arboretum, brookfield zoo)
*Mike attended ALM up at Camp harvest
*We celebrated our 7th anniversary!!! <3
*Mackenzie went to Camp High 5 for the first time and loved it.
July
*July 6th Mackenzie got her glasses and has done wonderful with them!!!
*We celebrated out anniversary with trunk club (shopping), Hamilton & a night downtown!
*Mike left us for 10 days to go to Ireland + he had an amazing time!
*We had his annual meeting + a weekend away in Michigan for a wedding <3
August
*Basement finally "complete" and construction noise done!!!!
*The girls saw their first movie in theaters - sing!
*flying kits this month was super fun as well as just being outside!
September
*Mackenzie had her first day of PRESCHOOL! (She loves it!)
*We went on a reward trip to Cabo, Mexico and it was a blast!
*Kyla got engaged <3 <3 and we had a party at Mema & Pepa's house with all her favorite people.
*Did our annual trip to Stades and had so much fun, picked pumpkins out on the tractor in a field - will do again.
October
*Mike turned 29! Celebrated with a night out :)
*Family Photos for my parents anniversary happened and we got some decent ones!
*We took the girls to a Cubs playoff game that was rained out - they knew NO different and I think they enjoyed playing around the stadium.
*Halloween events @ Ivanhoe & the girls gymnastics were fun!
*Carved Pumpkins & made pumpkin seeds as a family
*The girls were Anna & Elsa for Halloween <3
November
*Forum trip to San Diego <3 <3 We spent the weekend before on Coronado Island and had an amazing time.
*Friendgiving at our home with all of our friends was a blast - we had 10 kids four and under which was comical and a blessing!
*Mackenzie and I had a hot chocolate date :)
*Abby turned 2!!!
December
*Celebrated abby with a trolls themed birthday party!
*The Girls saw santa at Ivanhoe and abby REFUSED - whenever we mentioned Santa she says "Santa - no lap!"
*Polar Express Weekend in the city - ate donuts in bed and it was a fantastic time!
*Celebrating Christmas this year was so great to see through the girls eyes - we had Oeffling Christmas the weekend before, Christmas Eve with Mikes family + Christmas day with Alisha's Family. It was a really fun week and we are so thankful!
