It has been an embarrassingly long amount of time since I have last blogged. Who would have thought having two kids, 14 months apart, would fill up most of my time?! I know, me either:-).

Well, I miss it so much and had so many intentions of starting it back up, but something more “important” always got in the way. Even today, I highly debated putting our overflowing dirty laundry in the coin machines instead of writing a post. Ahh, the joys of urban apartment living. Well, I am done with excuses, I am going to make this a priority. I truly love being able to share little pieces of our life and I love having a place to put/keep our memories. Sooooooo, wish me luck!

While I get back in the groove of  things, here is some highlights of what our little family has been up to the last YEAR (ugh, so embarrassing)!

-I ran my first marathon in Kalamazoo and WON it! (Probably because I had the best cheering squad out there! My dad biked the whole thing so he could get to every spot of the course. My mom ran the 5k race and then biked all over the course cheering.  My husband somehow got our two boys in and out of the car/stroller multiple times, just to see “mom” run by! And I definitely couldn’t have done it without our Mother Mary, who kept me motivated during all the mysteries of the Holy Rosary!)

-Mike finished up his first year of business school and crushed it, obvi!

-I was lucky enough to go to LONDON for one of my best friend’s bachelorette party!

-We moved to St. Paul, MN for Mike’s internship this summer.

-The boys and I loved exploring a new city, especially since we will be moving there full-time in July! I think the boys would argue that visiting their Great Grandma Lew Lew was the best part of being in MN (William still pretends to drive to her house).

-Our sweet Goddaughter was born in June and became a member of the Church in August!

-Celebrated Jack’s FIRST birthday!

-We found out that we were going to be parents to a THIRD little babe!!!

-One of my best friends got married to the man of her dreams and had an ice cream truck at her wedding! (Did I mention I was pregnant?! Me and our 6-week little babe took full advantage of that!)

-We celebrated 3 wonderful, exhausting years (remember we have 2 boys under 15 months) of marriage! There are still so many days that I cannot believe I am a WIFE!

-We moved back to Evanston!

-We went to the ER for the first time…with children!

-We were fortunate enough to have family watch our kids for back to back weekends, so we could go to weddings in Nantucket and Denver.

-My brother got engaged to his best friend!

-We got a mini van!! Helloooo socccceerr mom life! (But seriously, it is the BEST)

-Can you guess who we were for Halloween?!

-We found out the baby we are growing is going to be a sweet baby GIRL!!!—sidenote: we have never found out the gender of our kids before, but my mom is a sonographer and since we are living close to them during this pregnancy we thought it was the perfect time to have her find out for us! It was so much fun and I am still in complete shock!

-We celebrated the holidays with family

-Went to Hawaii!! I miss it every day! We’re thinking about moving there for the winters…just kidding.

-Currently dealing with sleep regressions (who knew there was an 18 month one?!!). I will delve more on that at a later date! In the meantime, please send prayers!

Well, clearly too much has happened since my last post, but if you stick around I promise there will be more posts soon! Happy Wednesday!