Anyone wanna do this? You can go month by month, season by season, big moment by big moment?

January:



The 2nd pic of the New Year, January 3rd. My nephew Nicholas, so far away through that glass, and I was the first family member to realize something was wrong. While I think about this I remember KNOWING, and DH and BIL telling me nothing was wrong, and saying, "Don't tell me nothing is wrong, I'm watching the nurses." It was a veryyyyyyy long two weeks for our family, and exactly 2 weeks later, his heart surgery was over. The amount of blood not pumping was far lower than the doctors in Buffalo thought and I'm glad he didn't know that. Tomorrow is his first birthday party and wait for pics from that! You'd never know how scary things were a year ago.

February:


A pretty bitter month... Cold, lots of storms. I was pretty depressed. Nick was healthy, and I was elated, but he was also quite the reminder of what I didn't have.

March:

Exactly what I needed!!!!! Caribbean air, take me awayyyyyyyy!! I missed Mike A LOT by the end of this, but I learned a lot at all of these ports of call and I realize this is the last cruise I will take with my mom! Meeting Aimee was icing on the cake!



{Me in the hotel in New Orleans before we sailed}

April:
We had really nice weather coming home and it continued into April. We went to a fabulous wedding and had a great time. MIL was also VERY sick during this time and this wedding was great to see her out and enjoying herself.



May:

I don't recall anything in May really, and I wonder if I have any pictures <<Heads back over to photobucket>>. Nope, nothing really. Here's one from Mother's Day though.



June:

Our 1st wedding anniversary was really special, as was 5 years together. 5 years to me was a SIGNIFICANT time investment in eachother and now we're past 5.5!



I saw Amy for the first time in 2 years:


Met Alice:


July:

We had our first gathering at our place for 4th of July. It went very well. Mike and I spent some awesome alone time in July doing romantic things and that was nice AND needed.





Met Nikki and Drake:


Spent a lot of time at my parent's camp and my sister and the kids as well as my SAHM friends and their kids out in the SUN for the few weeks of summer Buffalo gets.





August: Came and went not much to say... It was HOTTTTTTTT! More camp and swimming!

September: DISNEY!! Looked forward to it all month and it was probably the highlight of my year!




October: We had the 2nd chance prom--
It was a slow, ho-hum month. We were happy that we had been in our apartment 1 whole year!

November: Swine wipes out all memory. It was my birthday in there. *Edit* Early in the month we went on our trip to wine country! And I was sick for half but the other half was AWESOME!

December: Being sick is also the marker of this month. I was pretty worried about money for presents, but we made do with less. The final picture should probably be of the boy who lit up my year and always had a smile and smooshy face kissy for his Aunt Micky, my littly NICU grad nephew, Nicholas.

[..Penelope..]

That is so cool! TFS!

I don't know if I will ever have time to do one, but it's a neat idea!

[SandKmommy]

January/Feb
Pregnant, bought some clothes




March, baby shower



April, Kieran born




May, Nana Died


June, garage sale of nana's stuff...and Seamus decided to strip down and play with the hose...in front of people coming to the garage sale(and he took off and we had to call 911 cause we couldn't find him, dh got in the car...Seamus was in the back seat just sitting in his car seat, didn't answer when we were screaming for him)


In June Seamus also got into desitin...see some up his nose



July, Seamus turned 3!


And we met Morgan!



August, we started Cloth Diapers!



September, cant think of anything special, 3yr wedding anni thats it

October, Seamus' first time Trick-or-Treating(out side of a mall) and Kieran's first Halloween




November, Seamus get glasses



December, Kieran's first Christmas

[ShannonMVT]

Ooo, very cool idea! Love the pics and synoposis so far!

Michelle that Feb pic....heartwrenching. But I know it will be such a wonderfully sweet joy when you have your own baby.

[~*Bethy*~]

OOO I wanna do it too - lemme round up some pictures!!!

[*Anna*]

Ahhhh great idea. And TFS so far girls. I will do this but can't tonight.

[Mars]

Great idea, Michelle!

Here are a few pics of Amara's first year.

Birth/0 Months
Just Born (sorry it's a bit blurry, it's a pic of a pic)




At home




1 Month


2 Months
Easter Sunday


3 Months


Dedication


4 Months


5 Months


6 Months
2 Days shy of 6 Months - First Food (Butternut Squash)






7 Months
Trip to Maryland and Ohio








8 Months


9 Months


10 Months
At the Beach


Carols by Candlelight


11 Months
Christmas








Thanks for looking.

[Trannyfromtheuk]

Our Year...

January...
We sent out the wedding Invites just after christmas to give people plenty of notice, so if they needed too they could book time of work



Feb
My SIL gave birth to my nephew on Valentines Day

Poor baby was taken to the NICU after his delivery went a bit wrougher then it should have gone

March
We made the place cards/table seating plan for our wedding.



April
We started getting nice weather so would take Mia on trips to the park more often


May.
I made Gary cut his hair off for the wedding!


I had my hen/bacherlorette party


We finally got Married

Mia looked like a little Angel in her bridesmaids dress


I also turned 21 While we was on our honeymoon.

June
Not A lot happend this month. Other then trips to the beach/park etc.

July.
We got our professinal wedding pictures back.





August
We started looking at houses to rent. We wanted to move. Our house was too small if we wanted to expand our family. Plus our rat problem was beyond a joke and not safe to bring a child up in!

September
We found our perfect house and within the space of two weeks we was moving in. I love this house now.

October
Miss Mia turned 2 & We had halloween 4 days after her birthday aswell.



November
We had bomnfire night. This was the 1st time she has ever seen fireworks and she loved it...Aslong as she was being held!


December.
We had SNOW!! My sister announcing she was prego...And Christmas! THEN my sister got Engaged.

[midnight_starr]

I am loving all the pics!!! My turn now!!


January - DH and I attended a wedding of some friends' of ours nothing else really big going on then



February - Mardi Gras time of course!


March - Met Michelle and closed on our house!



April - Got settled into our house, planted flowers in my flowerbed!


May - Dh graduated, we celebrated 2 years of marriage and 7 years together!


June - The twins (my godchild and her sister) came sleepover at our house for the first time, we took them feed the ducks!!



July- Went to Panama City, FL for a mini vacation!


August- I don't really recall anything big happening during this time frame..

September/October - Met Angela & baby London, hung out with the family downtown for my brother's birthday!



November- Nothing big besides Thanksgiving!


December - Best month ever!!! Got my BFP and celebrated our first Christmas in our new house!

[*Anna*]

Ok this should be fun to look back! I do miss being preggo!!!----
editing to add- sorry for the few big ones... I can't remember how to change it... and if its alot of work I don't have time... surprised this took me an hr.... Alexa did wake a couple times tho

January-
Was 6 mons preggo- went to Florida for babymoon to Key West



February-
7 mons preggo- went to Florida again and visited BFF Angie and her family




and baby shower:

March-
8 mons preggo... and 36 wk and last belly pic at 37 wks-- which was 2 days b4 Alexa arrived- do you see the slight drop




and Alexa came 3 weeks early-





April-
Alexa was 1 month old


1st bath in the sink


May
My first Mothers Day and Alexa's first Easter



June
took ferry to Machinaw Island- Alexa's first boat ride


wearing Alexa and resting at the Grand Hotel on the island

up north Michigan- Houghton Lake, having breakfast in our cottage- Alexa chilling in her bouncer.



July
met Angela, Resi, and Kyle in Chicago



August

Alexa was baptised
with my parents

Alexa touched sand and the ocean for the first time...



video-



met Nikki and Drake in Charlotte


fun pic of Alexa in car seat with my sunglasses


September went to Florida for a mini vaca




October
Alexa's first Halloween and went to an apple orchard and saw some animals





November
Alexa's first Thanksgiving



December
Alexa's first Christmas






This was fun... thanks for looking

[Chelnae6]

Oooohhh my turn, my turn...

January 09: Inauguration and Election of Barack Obama. Thats him getting out of the car less than 50 feet infront of us


February 09: Engagement Party for Will and I


March 09: Went thru a lot this month. Also went to Orlando but dont have any pics


April 09: Me and My Ho! Navajo that is... in Massanutten (ski resort in VA)


May 09: Best friend graduated law school and we were going out


June 09: Happy 25th bday to me!!! Gifts from Will


July 09: Will's bday outing


August 09: and Atlantic City


September 09: SOBE BABY!!! Went to Miami! 8 weeks pregnant


October 09: Got to see my bean again


November 09: ITS A GIRLLLL!!!



December 09: Just me @ a friends bday party

Love all of these!! Fun fun!!

[szczepanski]

January - DH and I got married! And then I quickly regretted my decision. We honeymooned in Lake Placid.





February: Lots of newlywedded bliss and lots of hockey. And my team finally won, which is a big deal! Also got to visit with my favorite baby ever....and she pointed out that I was a Canes fan and that just isn't right, even to her.





March - The month we found out we were pregnant with our little surprise! My sister and her boyfriend came to visit on their spring break....and we took them to their first trip to Canada. They enjoyed it because they were 19.



April - We lost our surprise baby.

May - More family came to visit, my Grandma makes us take our picture with Tully the Turtle every time they visit.



June - A BFP on Father's Day! Pregnant again!


July - Everything looks great with our little pirate.



August - DH and I took a vacation to Philly where we spent a week. I went home to visit my family in NC for another week. I also won 1st AND 2nd place at the Monroe County Fair.







September - My 25th Birthday AND....It's a BOY!!! So excited for Nolan David!





October - Apple season and our first pumpkin patch picture. We want to get one every year with Nolan. Also, more hockey.





November - DH's birthday and our teams meet again. Unfortunately, my team did noT win this time. 11/11 was also the EDD for the baby we lost....but fate had a way of cheering me up and I had an ultrasound that day. We got to see Nolan sucking on his hand. I also cut off 15 inches of my hair for locks of love!







December - Christmas and the end of a year. Didn't get any pictures.....but here is my 30 week belly pic.

Love all the hockey pics!!

[sara~b]

January:
Lost my job and Steelers were in the Superbowl!


February:
Took Gem to see Disney on ice.


March:
Gemma turned 4!


First date with Shane as well!

April:
Gemma's first dentist procedure with anesthesia. She was stoned!


May:
Got put on a 7 week outage at Hatfield power station. This was my life:


and I graduated!


June:
My mom got married for the third time!


Completed my first ultramarathon:


July:
found Patch and moved in with Shane.


August/September:
nothing that I can think of.

October:
Baltimore United Way 5k.


November:
Remodeled the gym and Thanksgiving.


December:
BFP!


And engagement!


I took Christmas pics but I guess I haven't put them in photobucket yet. *shrugs*

[sara~b]

Here's the jewelers pic of my engagement ring since my camera stinks:

[LaLaRose3]

This is a cute idea.

JANUARY




FEBRUARY

We lost DH's father, I was in the hossy, and we got married. Lot in one month.





MARCH





APRIL

Our baby girl is finally born!








MAY





JUNE







This is where we spread FIL's ashes.





JULY










AUGUST










SEPTEMBER






OCTOBER

At the begining of this month, I moved out of DH and my place, and started staying with my mother for awhile. This is when we became officially separated.







NOVEMBER










december in next post

[LaLaRose3]

DECEMBER