We celebrated New Years right here at home! Nothing special, just the norm. Celebrated both our Mom's birthdays in January and enjoyed many other activities.
In Feb. we celebrated Valentine's Day with our handsome...
And of course this Mommy was excited to be unique for his Valentine's Party and give Glow Sticks!!
St. Patricks Day, my happy happy boy!
During the month of March/April we began our project of redoing our Privacy Fence! It was a chore, but thanks to my Dad for insight and my husband & father in law's labor, we had a nice new fence in NO time! :D
We hosted Easter at our home. Invited my parents, Travis's Parents, his grandparents, and my sister Amy & her family. We had an Easter Egg hunt and cooked some burgers & hot dogs. Our backyard was still a disaster with the fencing project, so most of us congregated in the front/or inside! Corbin got a kick out of egg hunting!
Slamming his PawPaw with a confetti egg
Daddy & Corbin exchanging eggs
"Hm, I'll just stop right here & enjoy these M&M's"!
Having a good time with Pappy & T
My handsome, with his lovely Grammie looking on in the background
Corbin checking out what the Easter Bunny left him
I was a horrible historian this year. I was too busy making memories to document them. In April/May we took a trip to San Antonio for a couple of days. We stayed at our fav, the Drury, and had fun in the indoor pool
We visited a farm outside of town & Corbin got to ride a pony!
We had fun looking at all the livestock
Blowing kisses to Daddy on the hayride!
A trip to the San Antonio Zoo, we were waiting on the train!
And a trip to the drive through safari ranch!
In the summer we got to go to the beach and have fun while Aunt Sue was down. We did some crabbing...and swimming... and daydreaming :)
Oh, and we fed some seagulls!
We made 2 trips to Sheridan to Splashway! Not a fan of the actual character who walks around in costume, but was brave enough to tackle some of the bigger slides! I was too excited of a Mommy to take pictures, whoops! :)
We had our first Tropical Storm in our home, "Bill" dumped some much needed rain, and minor winds on us! We had to go play in the puddles...
In May we took a trip to the Corpus Christi Aquarium. We had a great time seeing all of the animals, watching the dolphin show & having fun!
In May we lost Nanny. Travis' Grandmother on his Mom's side. Nanny had been sick for a few years, she was a strong woman who I am so glad to have gotten to know. We made a trip to East Texas for her viewing, and while it was extremely sad & difficult, I'm glad we were able to go. We will always miss Nanny.
4th of July we made our annual trip to East Texas to visit Travis' PaPaw. It wasn't quite the same without having Nanny there. But we had a great time, and my MIL sent some flowers afloat on the lake for her Mom (Nanny's) birthday. We went over to Nancy & Charlies for dinner & then watched the fireworks from Travis' PaPaw's house. It was a great time, despite my migraine I had going on (hence the glasses)
We made a trip into Tyler and went to the Caldwell Zoo with Corbin while we were up there.
Corbin took his first boat ride
So here's where I'll interject some tid-bits about what we dealt with on my end this year. We began to try for baby #2 around the first of the year. With many negative tests, I went to my OBGYN for some answers. She did multiple lab work ups, over a couple of months, and found my prolactin hormone was abnormally high. Which will lead to infertility due to the hormone being high, telling my body I was pregnant and I wasn't. So I had an MRI done in July, after 4th of July wknd and it found a small tumor on my pituitary gland in my brain. Benign (non cancerous) but still a issue, because it was the source of too much prolactin being released. So they put me on a medication, to lower the level. And that seemed to work, and my body was "back to normal"! This was all GOOD news! We just have to monitor my levels and the tumor annually.
OK, so in October a certain little someone turned TWO! We had decided if we weren't pregnant by summer, we'd plan a trip for his birthday. So we did, because obviously, not pregnant!
We had a Mickey Mouse themed birthday party. And it rained, and rained, and RAINED. Like, 5 inches that day! So we turned the playroom into a ball pit room with the blow up pool & slide...it was a hit. And we did a piñata in a different fashion. haha...
We had a great time!
And so did Corbin!
After his party, we cleaned up and hit the road to Houston, so we could catch our flight out to DISNEY WORLD! (which I already blogged about, so here's just a few pictures)!
The day we landed in Houston from our trip (10/30/2015) we found out Travis' grandpa had passed away. He'd been sick for just a few months...it was devastating to lose such a wonderful man. We'll always remember him, and the time him & Grandma went to my parents house (I wasn't home!) and sat and visited with my parents & Nana just to check them out. :) He always called Corbin his catfish, and his saying was "I'm glad you got to see me again".
Once we returned we had a super-hero Halloween!
And we discovered Time Out...
I recreated a picture 2 years apart :)
We took family pictures with the talented Heather Crump. Perfect weather...and there's something interesting about these pictures...keep reading to find out what :)
We went to Oklahoma to Winstar Casino for our 5 year Anniversary to see Penn & Teller. Treat to us, we got to meet them! Travis was so excited!
We attended 3 Christmas parties...the one for my department was a tacky sweater theme....so we got creative ;)
We hosted Thanksgiving at our house. My oldest brother & his family joined us as well as my parents. We had a great day of good food & visiting.
For Christmas it was all over the place. Wednesday before, my sister Amy & her family came by our house, Christmas eve with my in laws, Christmas morning at our house, Christmas day in PL, the day after Christmas in PL with my sister Tab & brother Ted. Great times were had :)
Got to visit my Grandpa Husak & Barbara
Corbin got a horse from Gammie & PawPaw!
Mommy & Daddy bought him a Gator
Mimmie & Pappy hooked him up with a grill like Daddies!
We had a great & blessed Christmas. :)
So, on Dec. 18th we went to Oklahoma, we were supposed to stop in San Antonio to spend the night there on Saturday night. But we missed Corbin & traffic was horrific, so we came home a day early! And boy am I glad we did.
So here's the pretty tree in the middle of our front yard, all lit & decorated for Christmas...too bad that will never happen again, and here's why.
Yeah. That's why. So, Saturday the 19th we heard commotion, the neighbors were having a party. Whatever, they'd be parked everywhere and leave trash in our yard/road. We were used to it. We went to bed, obviously exhausted. We slept through the whole ordeal. And our phones were on silent. :( Thank God for our neighbor next door who woke up when all the commotion happened at 3am Sunday morning. I woke up at 6ish and saw a missed called from my neighbor. So I texted her to make sure all was okay. She replied back with "There was a party, and someone was drunk, and they knocked down your tree" I was like "what tree?" She said "The tree in the middle of your front yard " I was like, "WHAT!?" I jumped up and looked out the window. I was LIVID. I am wearing only shorts & a tank top and it's COLD...but I ran out the front door screaming (like that was going to do anything...no one was awake to hear me) I woke up Travis, and he was like "What the ...." So I called the cop and they came out and gave me info on the case number. While he was here I made him go to the host of said parties house, and made him move his truck that was illegally parked in front of the fire hydrant. Apparently a drunk, was leaving the party and missed the cul-de-sac, hit my drive and flew into the tree uprooting it. He tried to leave, but was stuck. And my neighbor called the cops. Thank God. He was arrested for PI. Unfortunately, not much can be done on our end. We'd be out more money than it's worth. However Sunday after, my neighbor was like a watch dog, everyone who stopped at the house of party was getting an ear full. Then the owner came out. And I gave him an earful. I told him he's upset every neighbor, and that better be on best behavior. Any illegal parking, parties, ect, the cops will be here. No more Mrs. nice girl. It's been quiet..we chopped up the tree and had it hauled off.
SO remember the family photos? Well, they are special because there are really 4 people them! This was our announcement via Christmas card...that a lot of people missed. lol.
And we got to see baby the other day! Growing good! :) Will find out the gender in Feb. and we're due in July!
Overall, our year was very full & blessed. Here's to 2016...and our growing family!
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