June - August 2011 - Ada had her first beach trips (yes we took two), and we even got this super cute video. My favorite.
We really enjoyed having Jordan home from the summer. He looked for jobs after Anniston made budget cuts... again - and ended up being offered 3 different jobs. He took the first one offered to him (which was the same day of his interview) and settled in at C.E. Hanna Elementary in the Oxford City School system. We are proud to say that Jordan will start his third year at C.E. Hanna this August, and has become quite the rockstar... in my eyes at least :)
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| Ada's First Beach Trip |
October - December 2011 - Our sweet baby girl turned one. We went all out and threw her a "Fiesta" for her first birthday. Tons of friends and family came, and we enjoyed celebrating her beautiful little life.
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| Sweet Ada Laine |
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| 1st Birthday Cake |
She also started walking... about two week after her first birthday. Once she got started, she hasn't stopped!
January - March 2012 - Most of our time was spent watching our baby girl break out of her shell. She went from jabbering to talking to carrying on simple conversations SO quickly. She also found one of her passions... dancing.
April - August 2012 - We soaked up the warm weather, enjoyed another beach trip, and began gearing up for a home renovation.
September - December 2012 - Our home renovation started and the next few months were absolute chaos. Somewhere in the madness, we planned a way-too-big-but-fun second birthday party for our Monkey. She had a carnival party complete with games and prizes!
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| Papa and Bella's house turned Carnival Tent! |
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| She was quite the diva on her second birthday. |
We also got to meet a very special guy... Ben Waller, who just happened to ask my dad permission to marry my sister Sarah that weekend. We all fell in love with him immediately... especially the newly turned two year old!
Christmas was really fun this year, because it was the first year that Ada understood a little bit of what was going on. We gave into the popular "Elf On The Shelf" game, and it was a hit. Ada loved seeing what "Twinkle" the Elf would do each morning, and Jordan and I had fun getting creative with Twinkle's antics!
Jordan and I also enjoyed our first trip since our honeymoon with just the two of us. We went to Nashville for a couple of days and it was much needed and amazing!
January 2013 - After recovering from all the Holiday travel, we got back to work on our house. It still wasn't finished!! I also decided to go back to school and finish my last semester of my undergrad degree. Needless to say, January was busy... and bittersweet.
February 2013 - April 2013 - We finally got moved back into our house... and we slowly began putting our "normal" lives back together in the midst of our family, jobs, and me being a full-time student. I graduated on April 30th with my B.A. in Graphic Design from Jacksonville State University. I always wanted to finish, and I was very thankful to my husband for giving me the opportunity.
That quickly.. and very briefly... brings us to May 2013. I caught up! Haha.
May has been a super eventful month. Mainly because I've been helping my sister plan her wedding. Yep, "Uncle Ben" became official on May 18th in the most beautiful wedding ceremony I've ever been to... apart from my own of course! We woke up that morning to floods... literally floods, and we'd been planning an outdoor wedding for months. Oops. Thankfully, God was gracious, and although we did have to alter the plans a little bit, he brought out the sun to make for some killer pictures!
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| Courtesy of Texture Photo |
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With the main "May" even over with... we're enjoying our last few days of May just hanging out at our house, gearing up for June!
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