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Saturday, December 31, 2016

Good-bye 2016!


The last day of the year is here and I have to say 2016 has been great to us but it went by way too fast! There have been so many wonderful things to celebrate this year for our family. Here are some of our top moments from 2016:


January

Sofia started gymnastics and loved it!


We went for Winter walks and Ethan showed Ethan how much fun it is to jump in puddles!



We went to the Morton Arboretum train show




We went to a model railroad show



February

We signed Ethan up for swim lessons to get him over his fear of water

We made Valentine's crafts, it was Sofia's first ever craft


We celebrated Valentine's Day



We went to Wild Fest and Ethan got to ride Bubba again

March

We went to Kline Creek Farm to see the newly born lambs



We went to the park for the first time of the year


We put in an offer on a new home for our family and it was accepted but we would have to wait more than 90 days to move in

We went bowling with family



We decorated Easter eggs and had an egg hunt for Ethan and Sofia






We celebrated Easter







We became and Aunt and Uncle for the 5th time

April

We celebrated opening day for the Chicago Cubs and had no idea what a historic season it would be!

We went on a lot of walks and park trips while our house was being shown to potential buyers.






We stocked a local pond with fish




We made our first trip of the year to the Zoo 


We received and accepted and offer on our house. The countdown was on and the packing began



This guy really started to take to swimming and moved up to the next level

Ethan went to a how to be a firefighter class and loved every second of it





May

We celebrated Ethan's 4th birthday



I had a wonderful Mother's Day

We visited the Morton Arboretum's new frog exhibit


Packing continued


We celebrated Memorial Day


We closed on our new family home



June

A day after closing, work began on our new house




A week later we said good-bye to our first home


We began our new commute to daycare which is just a short walk or bike ride and it was amazing


The unpacking and decorating began and we returned all our boxes in 2 weeks time back to the movers


We celebrated Michael on Father's Day



We soaked up the sun in our new backyard, a new thing for our family after townhouse life



Two of my favorite pictures of Ethan and Sofia that I took all year


July

We celebrated the 4th of July with fireworks, fun and family




We took on a landscaping project to re-do most of the landscaping in our front yard





The kids fell in love with our sprinkler system



We continued working on lots of house projects




We discovered a new to us waterpark 5 minutes from our house and the kids wanted to go every day



August

Sofia went to her first movie, Finding Dory


We made several trips to the Zoo

Day out with Thomas


We soaked up every bit of Summer we could


We attended fun Summer festivals


We did a lot of house projects this month








September

Michael and I spent Labor Day weekend in Lake Geneva for a weekend away

Sofia became pacifier free and got to choose a toy for turning it in!


Sofia got her first haircut


My little boy had his first day of school at Pre-K



We celebrated a big milestone in Michael's business

We went to the fire and police stations open house



You guessed it, more house projects!





We hosted our first party at our new house, pierogi fest!



We celebrated Michael's 34th birthday with a day at the Zoo


We had family pictures taken






October

We celebrated our little girl's 2nd birthday with a panda-riffic party!





We decorated our new house for Halloween outside!



We made our annual trip to the pumpkin patch, Goebberts


We played in a lot of leaves



I celebrated the start of my 34th year with my favorite people and a visit to the Zoo for Boo at the Zoo




I got to be a room mom for the first time for Ethan's Halloween party at school


We had an amazing Halloween with our little superheroes



We were deep in Cubs stress from the World Series


November

They did it, the Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years!

We continued to have a beautiful Fall and enjoyed the weather for as long as possible



We saw the Trolls movie and the kids became obsessed

Ethan had a fun Thanksgiving party at school

We hosted our first Thanksgiving at our new house



We began decorating for Christmas





We started all of our fun holiday activities, our first stop, the Chicago Botanic Garden


December

We had our first snow



We made crafts, baked cookies








Admired a lot of Christmas lights




We saw Santa



Ethan had his first Christmas program at school

Michael and I went on a Christmas date in the city and to see Jerry Seinfeld



We had wonderful celebrations with our families and we hosted Christmas Eve for the first time at our new house






Santa came






We've had a wonderful Christmas break with the kiddos doing so many fun things, going to the movies, ice skating, bowling, going to build-a-bear.




We even had a 50 degree day where we got to go outside and go for a walk and jump in puddles


What an amazing year! We made so many amazing memories and we are so blessed. We are in such a great season of life that I always want to remember these moments. I can't wait to see what 2017 has in store for the Dworianyn family!