2009 in Review

Happy New Year!! What a busy and fun-filled year 2009 was! Let's see if I can recap it:

We celebrated Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, and 4th of July:





I helped plan a fun reunion weekend with my sorority sisters:


I went on a life-changing mission trip to Honduras in February with a group from church, where we ministered to children in two orphanages:



While I was in Honduras, Avery spent those few days in Miami with my parents! (Aidan stayed at home with Daddy, and Cookie came to help):


We hosted the entire Jolly family for a fun-filled weekend at our house! All that was missing was Mema, who we flew in later :)



Aidan was potty-trained! Hooray!


Daniel and I celebrated our 8th anniversary:


Aidan turned 3 and had a fun birthday party at Pump It Up, Jr!



We took a fun beach trip to Port Aransas with Daniel's family:


Aidan took some swimming lessons with his buddy Kaelyn:


Avery underwent surgery to remove her adenoids and have tubes put in:


Aidan did his first summer of Vacation Bible School at a friend's church and loved it!


We had a reunion with Aidan's baby friends from The Little Gym:


Daniel and I went to a CD release party for my brother Jason and his band:


We went to the annual Cunningham reunion in Comanche:


We made some fun visits to Waco (to see the Brookses and go to Baylor games) and Crawford (to see Grandpa and Nanna).




Daniel was promoted to Director at PWC:


Aidan and Avery started another year of Mother's Day Out at our church:


Aidan played blastball, his first official team sport:


The kids and I took a road trip with Grammy to West Texas to see Papi (who met us in Midland), Mema, Jeri, Reggie, Great-Pa, Gamma, and Marsha:



Cookie and Jeff got married and the kids were a super-cute part of the ceremony!



Avery turned 2 and had a fun petting zoo birthday party in our backyard:



We went on a bunch of fun outings, including the State Fair and the circus:



The kids enjoyed lots of Halloween festivities and dressed up as a pirate and a kitty-cat (and trick-or-treated with Cousin Sage):


I made time for some fun outings with my mom friends:



Aidan joined church choir, and both kids performed in the MDO Christmas program:



We saw Santa! (Some were happier to see him than others):


We had a very Merry Christmas with all of our family, the kids took a trip with Papi and Grammy to Abilene to see my grandparents, and we celebrated New Years with Marcus and Jenna (photos from these events below!). We are so excited to see what 2010 has in store for us!!