April 2021 - Josie turns ONE

This week we've been trying to get back to reality of school and work while unpacking. Our kids are struggling after the fun trip with school and knowing they just have three weeks left! Josie also turned ONE on Monday! It is unbelievable to me that she is already a year old. This year has flown by! We are having a small family party for her this weekend, but on Monday we took her to the park in the evening after work, made her blueberry muffins for breakfast, she had green beans for dinner (one of her faves!) and a banana smash cake! We got her the very practical gift of a....ball pit! She loves balls and she's our last baby! Everyone is enjoying it and sneaking into her room to play. We also got to see more pictures of Bear. Josie can already say his name!

April 2021 - Disney

 In 2019 we scheduled a Disney vacation after getting a free dining offer (which is huge savings for this growing family!) not knowing at the time that the world would turn upside down! Every few months we would move the trip back waiting for "normal" to return. A year later (and Josie about to turn one), we started to take about how we didn't know when life will be normal again and decided after getting vaccinated (and Disney sending me a pin code to incentivize us) that we would go ahead and do a shortened version of our original trip (4 days). It was so fun and the most normal thing we've done in an entire year! It was Josie's first vacation, time staying in a hotel, swim in a real pool, first theme park, and even first time eating inside a restaurant. Disney did an amazing job with their safety protocols, and I felt safer there than most places we've gone this last year. I'm so glad we went ahead and enjoyed these moments together!