Wednesday, 1 January 2014

Goodbye 2013...Hello 2014!!

So here we are...2014!! 
That is just crazy!! I know it makes me sound like an 'old person' but WHERE DOES TIME GO?! Ha!
2014 is going to be a BIG year for us!! It is the year that our family of two becomes a family of three! It is the year that I will not be teaching! (Which is WONDERFUL and WEIRD at the same time...) It is a year that is going to be VERY exciting, yet holds many unknowns as well! 

But before we run on into 2014, I wanted to take a look back at 2013... because it was pretty darn AWESOME as well!

Our Highlights from 2013:

*In January I started this blog!! 
Life On Summerwood Blvd was born! It has been a wonderful adventure and I have thoroughly enjoyed keeping this 'online journal' of our life!

*In March we celebrated my parents 30th wedding anniversary. That's quite the milestone!!
We took them to Pampa to celebrate!

*Also in March we took our yearly Spring Break trip to Las Vegas! It was a much needed break and something we always look forward to!!

*In May we took part in the 2013 MS Walk to support my Aunty Kathie who has battled MS for way to many years! It was a great day, and I was so proud that our family took part!

*In June I wrapped up another successful year in grade one and VERY unfortunately I had to leave my wonderful school! These kids were SUPER amazing!!

*In July we celebrated our First Wedding Anniversary! It was such an amazing first year! We celebrated with our trip to New York for a week! It was one of the most incredible weeks EVER!!

*In August we took a trip to Radium with my family to celebrate my Dad's 60th birthday! We rented a great cabin and enjoyed a week of relaxation!!

*In September we celebrated my 28th birthday! Man we are getting old!! My wonderful husband was in charge of picking up a birthday cake for me...and he came home with a Transformers cake from Dairy Queen!! HA! What a guy!!

We also found out we were expecting in September!! 'Peanut' will be joining our family in May 2014!!

*In October we hosted Thanksgiving dinner for both our families and I cooked a turkey for the first time in my life!! With the assistance of my Mom of course!! Ha!

And it was at our Thanksgiving dinner that we shared our exciting baby news with our parents! (We had told Kellen and Cody earlier that week!) We made it through the dinner portion and then prepared to serve pumpkin pie and tea/coffee. We served the pie and then we served their tea and coffee in these mugs...

And it only took them a few seconds to read their mugs and figure out what was going on! And then the mayhem began...ha! Needless to say, they were beyond SHOCKED and THRILLED!

*In November we headed to Alaska to visit Cody at university for the very last time! We had a great 'last' parents/family weekend with all of the Alaska fans and families!!

We also celebrated Damian's 28th birthday!

*In December we celebrated the holiday season ALL month long with our friends and family! It was a WONDERFUL time!!

And that was 2013!! What a wonderful year we had!!

My New Years Resolution this year is to take one picture every single day in 2014! My friends have been bugging me for almost a year now to get Instagram...so in the summer I signed up...and then never logged in again lol. BUT I have recently logged in and set myself up to use it! So every day this year I will be taking some sort of picture! I think it will be a great thing to look back on and see what 2014 looked like for us in pictures! And apparently when the year is through I can turn it into a book! Which would also be great!

Sooooo you all should follow along and join in as well!
You can follow me on Instagram @ kpkirchner
#kpkeveryday2014

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Monday, 30 December 2013

Christmas 2013 Recap!

I LOVE Christmas!! I love spending extra time with family and friends. I love the lights. I love the food. I love the trees and decorations. I LOVE it all!! I always feel a little sad when the Christmas season is over, because it seems to come and go so fast each year! 

Here is a little glimpse of the Christmas season with the Kirchner's this year...

I started off with my annual Christmas Baking Day with Bailey!
We made 25 dozen YUMMY Christmas cookies!!
We LOVE our Kitchen Aide Mixers!! And they just so happen to be red and green! So festive!!

Of course I enjoyed decorating our house all festive for the season!!


Tree #1!!

Tree #2!!
Our SNOWMAN TREE!

Our VERY special ornament from my wonderful cousin!

We had a 'December BBQ' the week before Christmas! It has been killing my Dad that he isn't able to stand long enough to cook and work in the kitchen so he decided to stand in the -25' and BBQ the burgers! Crutches and all!!!

We went to the Legislature ground to walk around and look at the lights with Cody and Brit one night!



Helping Ma cook all of the Perogies on Christmas Eve! We have always had a 'traditional' Ukrainian meal for Christmas Eve dinner. It is AMAZING!!!

Christmas Eve Festivities at my parents house!

Cody and Brit!

These boys love their WINE!

Cooper was feeling a little left out from all of the yummy perogies...

So I let him open his Christmas gift early!

He was very intrigued! Ha!

Dad and Kel!

Me and Damian! (and peanut!)

After dinner popcorn anybody?!
I have a serious addiction to popcorn...

Back home after a great Christmas Eve dinner and games night!
Snuggling on the couch with my hubby in our Christmas Pj's watching Elf and drinking Hot Chocolate!

Christmas Morning! Santa Came!

Our stockings!
Can't wait for there to be 3 up there next year!!

Merry Christmas! I still look like I'm asleep...ha!

Presents! Spoiled again!!

We headed back to my parents on Christmas mornings to open gifts with them!
Lots of stockings at there house!!

Ma and Pa opening gifts!

Kellen, Cody and Brit!

Spoiled AGAIN!

Brit (and Cody) knows us VERY well!
Gift cards in a CANDY BOUQUET!! YUM!

I brought brunch to my parents house on Christmas morning!
This is us just preparing the fruit!

Later in the day we headed to Damian's parents to celebrate Christmas day with them! And unfortunately I only took 2 pictures!! Terrible!!

This is their beautiful Christmas tree!

The table all set for the VERY delicious meal!!

We had a nice and relaxing Boxing day and enjoyed our last visit with Cody as he headed back up to Alaska for the remainder of the school year! I still can't wrap my mind around the fact that in 4 months when we get to see him again little peanut will be here!!!


On December 27th Damian FINALLY completed his 2013 New Years Resolution!! He learned to skate!! He had actually skated before in his life...but hasn't since he was a kid! And he managed to put off completing his resolution for almost an entire year!! Even with the many million reminders I gave him monthly! Ha! It was a freezing cold day but he battled through and did it! And my Dad even came out to cheer and coach him on!! SOOO proud of you babe!!

Me and Coopy Chillaxing at my parents house! We were VERY tuckered out from all of the Christmas festivities!

I hope everyone had a WONDERFUL Holiday season with their friends and family!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS from The Kirchner's!
xoxo

Sunday, 29 December 2013

A little 'Bumpdate'...

Well hello there! My poor blog has been a little neglected lately! I have been so busy, and just wasn't inspired to 'blog' for the past month...but I'M BACK! And have lots to share about our life these days! First off I would like to to thank everyone for all of the kind words, wishes, emails, text messages and phone calls we recieved about our exciting 'peanut' news! We are still over the moon happy and counting down the days until we can finally meet our lil peanut in person!! 

Peanut has been busy growing...and in turn, so have I! 
Here is a little 'bumpdate' for you all...







As you may have noticed, I do not have an '18 Week' picture...At my latest doctors appointment and ultrasound they dated me as being further along than we first thought and have changed my due date to the beginning of May now! Thus, we kinda lost 'week 18', hence the no picture!



I can't beleive that I am over half way there already! Time is flying bye!!
We are now starting to prepare the nursery, buy lots of fun 'baby' things, and taking some time to enjoy our last few months as a family of 2!!