2014

2014 was one of my best years! 

January//It started off with Keane asking for my hand in marriage! 

February//Kaden turned 10, we celebrated my father's birthday, and we celebrated Valentine's Day as an engaged couple!

March//Keane and Kylie went to a father/daughter dance, and we continued working on wedding planning.

April//We enjoyed spring weather with fishing, an Easter Day four wheeler ride, and mushroom hunting, my high school best friend's wedding, and Keane and I took a trip to Nashville!

May//We walked/ran in a 5K, had my bridal shower, attended another wedding, celebrated Mother's Day, and finished up our mushroom hunting (finding 326 this year)!

June//Celebrated Father's Day, my sister's birthday, and then, after the last six months of planning, Keane and I were wed!  It all turned out so perfectly, and I wouldn't change a thing. 

July//Enjoyed 4th of July and recovered from all the busyness of the wedding.

August//We went on a float trip and to a cave, wrapped up baseball/softball seasons with my brother's team winning the 13AA World Series, Kaden's kid-pitch team going undefeated, and Kylie's first year of kid-pitch.  Keane and I went to a grazing seminar, we got our new bedroom furniture set, and the kids went back to school: entering 3rd and 5th grades, and my brother his last year of junior high.

September//My 27th, and Keane's nephew's wedding.

October//My nephew turned 3 and brother turned 14, and we welcomed fall, and Halloween!  Also, Keane and I found out we are expecting!

November//Keane's 37th, my mother's birthday, deer hunting, and my cousin's wedding.  Also, we announced that we are expecting our baby!

December//Christmas.  Kylie turned 9.  And I started growing a small baby bump!

I cannot wait to see how much more wonderful 2015 will be with the anticipation of Baby and finally meeting this new loved one in June!  I know the sweet holidays that end the year will be the best yet, as we share them together as a family of five.

My New Year's Resolutions for 2014 were:

-Take a photo of the children, once a week, every week -- as inspired by Bluebird Vintage, and ask them a thought-provoking question. I dropped my phone and broke it terribly in June.  Half the time my camera does not work, and therefore I have lacked tremendously in the photo department.  I only made it 19 weeks.  Fail.

-Blog about stepmotherhood monthly. Fail.

-To get married! Married my loving husband on June 28, 2014.  Check!

-Stick to my newly created budget.  I itemized all of my spending in 2013.  I know what percentage I spent in each category.  In 2014, I will enforce a budget accordingly.  I continued to track my spending, but I failed at spending less where I wanted to.  However, the wedding was costly.

-To create more items to sell.  Or create a way to make passive income. I was almost there on this one.  I worked really hard on a business called  Bridal Bit.  I was so close to launching it and seeing it success.  But somewhere between wedding planning and needing a break from wedding planning, I lost my passion.

I'm so happy with my year in 2014.  All of it.  In 2015, I plan to enjoy pregnancy, meet my baby, get a new phone so I can take more photos again, keep up with my blogging (it keeps me feeling organized), and continue to love my family with my whole heart.  I had another resolution, but it slipped my mind (pregnancy brain, we will blame it on)!