Year in Review

Although we are already 8 days into the new year I still wanted to recap 2011 in the Bangert family. 2011 was a remarkable year filled with blessings beyond belief! Sit back and enjoy a recap of 2011 from our family!

January marked the half way point of my pregnancy and we found out we were having a GIRL!!

In February we headed east to Chicago to visit Kyle’s sister, Melanie and her husband Steve. I think it’s official that it’s an annual trip now!

In March we had some extended time off work for spring break. We took advantage of that time and worked in the nursery. The main project was this amazing closet organizer that Kyle installed!

The end of April my amazing sisters threw me a wonderful baby shower!!

May was a full month! We had maternity pictures taken! (something I’m so thankful that we did!!)

I had my 2nd baby shower. This one was thrown by some great co-workers!!

And we ended the month by finishing off Adelyn’s nursery!

Of course, the highlight of June was welcoming our sweet baby girl into the world!

July was a wonderful month! I enjoyed my time home with Adelyn so much! We celebrated her first holiday at my Mom’s!

I helped plan one of my bestie’s bachelorette party! My Mom was so kind to come along and watch Adelyn so I didn’t have to leave her for the whole weekend!

And when this sweet girl was just 1 month old we were able to capture her sweet smile on camera!

In August I had my 3rd and final shower with some wonderful girls!

We also hosted a couple’s shower for our wonderful friends, Mark & Jenna!

We ended the month with a trip to Omaha to see my sister Stef and her husband Geoff! It was Adelyn’s first road trip!

September was a hard month. I had to go back to work after spending 11+ weeks home with my sweet girl. But there were some definite highlights, we celebrated our nephew’s 1st birthday!

Hawkeye football season began! This is our 5th year as season ticket holders.

Our friends, Mark & Jenna, got married and we were honored to stand up for them on their special day!

And last, but not least, we dedicated our sweet Adelyn to the Lord.

October was a fun month! We took to the pumpkin patch to pick out her first pumpkin!

Adelyn had her first taste of rice cereal and loved it!

My good friend, Kim, and I made a trip to Kansas with our babies for a crafting weekend!

Adelyn’s bottom two teeth came in!

And we celebrated another holiday with this cute little duck!

November was a month of firsts for me a as a Mom. I had to have my first overnight away from Adelyn. It wasn’t easy. In the beginning of the month I had a work trip for 3 days in state and then at the end of the month I had a week long trip to Las Vegas. Now that was fun, but I still missed my baby girl SO much!

Adelyn went from doing the tripod to full on sitting on her own this month!

December was nothing short of magical! Having Adelyn this year made Christmas extra special! Not only did we celebrate Adelyn's first Christmas, but Kyle finished his Bachelor's degree! Needless to say he was very excited for this!!

There is our year in a “nutshell”! We are truly blessed and can’t wait to see what 2012 has in store for our little family!

An Omaha Christmas

The weekend before Christmas Kyle, Adelyn, Hayden, Wendi, and I traveled to our sister & BIL, Stef & Geoff’s, house in Omaha. The rest of my family joined us as well, 13 in total. We had Christmas a weekend early in Omaha because my sister is 37 weeks pregnant and cannot travel home, so we went to her!

We got to Stef & Geoff’s house late Friday night. Thankfully the kiddos slept the whole way! Stefanie, even almost 9 months pregnant,  is a wonderful host and had breakfast cooking when we woke up Saturday morning!

We spent the morning getting ready for our big Christmas lunch and catching up! Hayden preferred pressing his face up against the cold window & playing with Grandpa!

We sat the kids on the couch and let them interact. Hayden loves to “give love” and Adelyn got her share!

 

The table was set and the food was ready, let’s have our Christmas lunch!!

 

We savored our Christmas lunch and with full tummies enjoyed the afternoon playing games and opening gifts!

Adelyn was more interested in the wrapping paper than the gift that was underneath it!

I got my sister an Erin Condren life planner, she loved it!! I got one over the summer, loved it so much, and gave a few for gifts this Christmas!

We had a relaxing evening, went to see a few Christmas lights, met up with Kyle’s sister who lives in the area, and enjoyed family time!

Sunday morning after breakfast, Adelyn was on the floor with Aunt Stef and I’m pretty sure she must have known there was another baby in her belly!

It was so cute how she kept her arm or hand on her tummy the whole time!

We went to church with Stef & Geoff and then stopped by the Botanical Gardens afterwards to get some pictures with this giant poinsettia Christmas tree!

I love my sisters!!!!!!!!

We ate in downtown Omaha, the Old Market area, at Blue Sushi. Adelyn enjoyed the cold drinks! Ha!

After lunch we packed up and hit the road. The babies didn’t sleep much on the way home, but they were SO good! They played & “chatted” almost the whole way!

We had a great weekend with our family celebrating this wonderful season! I sure hope everyone isn’t getting tired of all these Christmas posts, only 2 more left!

Family Celebration Date

As of Sunday December 18th Kyle is officially done with his Bachelor’s degree! He will graduate with a double major in Business Management and Organizational Leadership. It was a busy 18 months, but he finished and was very successful, all A’s!!! We had a small celebration as a family and went out for supper one night the week we were off work before Christmas.

 

Adelyn’s new favorite thing these days is sucking/licking a cold glass!! Too bad I wasn’t quick enough with my camera to capture it!

Adelyn and Mommy are very proud of our favorite guy!! He worked hard and was very successful!!