Monday, March 17, 2014

A Year in Review, Part 1

Somehow as I was looking something up on the internet the other night, I accidentally typed in my blog address.  When it popped up, I was shocked that the last time I posted was a year ago.  A year!!  I knew it had been a while, but it's so hard to believe that the time has gone by so fast.

So here I am again, determined to start this blog back up.  I would make a promise to keep it up regularly, but I've promised that before and look what happened- a year went by!  This time, I'm just going to say I will do my very best.  And hopefully I will update more frequently than once a year.

Here is the Augustine family's year in review.  These are just the highlights, but it's a year's worth, so it's going to be lengthy...

MARCH 2013
I can't resist adding this picture of my baby in bunny costume during Grace's school's Easter Egg Hunt.  She was only 11 months old here and just starting to walk.

APRIL 2013
My baby girl turned one!  Why does she have to grow up so fast?  Our baby ended up having two parties and four cakes.  First party was just a family party where I made a butterfly cake and a smash cake.  Second party was at my parents' restaurant where I made the smash cake and Grandma bought the one for guests.  I know it might seem like overkill, but she's our BABY!  And in many ways, the baby in the family has got it good. 
Party overload!  
As for Grace, she is my little bookworm and I am loving it!  And she enjoys school so much, especially when she gets to go to Daddy's school.
I found her napping one day while hugging on her books.
Going with Daddy to his school for the day.  She even brought her own 'coffee cup'.


MAY 2013
The big event in May was Aunt Megan's college graduation.  We are very proud of her and can't wait to see what the future has in store for her.




Mother's Day was wonderful.  I was served breakfast in bed and then we traveled to Virginia Beach to spend time with the other important mothers in our lives, Lola and Grandma.

Grace had Storybook Character Day at school and she dressed up as Mouse from "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie".  Claire was her cookie.  I had so much fun making their costumes.  You can only get away with this kind of cutesie for so long!

Claire had her first visit to a water park and loved it!





And I just had to add this picture because I love it so...

JUNE 2013
June marked the beginning of lazy summer days lounging...




Sisterly love...
 Trips to museums...
Mariner's Museum in Newport News
Claire's first trip to the beach, the same beach where Mike proposed to me...






Father's Day with the greatest dad and his two little ladies...

And our first kid-free vacation in a long, long time.  We celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary by going to Newport, Rhode Island and touring all those gorgeous mansions.
Seven years married to this man.  I'm a lucky girl!

JULY 2013
We began July by celebrating our country's Independence Day.  And our one year anniversary in Williamsburg!



Claire was very unimpressed with the fireworks display.
The rest of the month, we celebrated summer and all of it's simple pleasures like hanging out at the pool...

Riding bikes at Grandma and Grandpa's...

Playing at the park...





Trips to the beach to go crabbing with Lolo and Lola...



Going berry picking...



And indulging in summer treats like popsicles and fresh corn on the cob...

July was also when Claire began to really play with dolls.  She couldn't be without one at the time!




AUGUST 2013
August was about enjoying the last little bit of summer by playing dress up...





 Cooling off on the slip'n'slide...





Going to the playground...

And constantly ready to go to the pool...
We also celebrated Mike's birthday...

and visited Ohio to celebrate Great-Grandma Augustine's 90th birthday.


Since we were so close, we took a tour of the house from the movie, "A Christmas Story".


He begged and begged and begged for his very own leg lamp.
Then it was time to gear up for the start of the school year.
Grace was very opinionated about her back to school outfits.  She picked out this ensemble all by herself.

Meet the teacher day

Excited about her cubby




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