2011 in review

I always forget how fun it is to look back on the year. Here is 2011, shown in as many pictures as some daily posts have in them. I try to keep it to one picture a month (not sure why, I guess it's just for the challenge).

January:

I took Andrew into Seattle. Our fun day out included a trip up the space needle.

February:

I was invited to talk to a group of moms (mops) about why blogging is awesome. Even though I'm very far from being a public speaker, I seem to be fairly passionate about blogging, so it was fun.

March:

Andrew's school started having a sharing day again afer stopping for a few years. It was mainly (if not 100%) because Andrew loved bringing toys in to show his friends and teachers. Before they started sharing day, he would show everyone who was there but then I'd take it back to the car with me.

April:

We went to our first community egg hunt this year. Even though we got a winning egg (that won us a pretty cool basket) it was so crazy that we decided this was also our last year doing a community egg hunt.

May:

I won a facebook contest that got Matt and I a free dinner at one of our favorite restaurants (Blazing Onion). They opened a new store and this is what they did to let the employees have a practice run. I'm not joking when I say this was a highlight of our month, if not the whole year.

June:

Andrew learned how to do the monkey bars. He was very excited!

It was also Mason's (rad, Dr. Seuss) 2nd birthday.

July:

We finally went camping with our boys! It was fantastic.

August:

Grandpa Mel farmed on his own for the first year this year. Matt spent some time helping and the boys had fun "helping" too.

Mason also grew just enough to finally ride his tricycle.

September:

We started our 'Andrew Dyk school' this month. We started with the letter A and will be starting on O next week. He has learned a crazy amount since we started this and he loves it!

October:

Andrew fell in love with magic in October. He is completely amazed by the simplest magic tricks. The problem is, he must know how it's done - he goes nuts trying to figure it out. He's such a logical kid, he knows it's not real but can't handle not knowing how it was done.

November:

I know I say it every year, but I cannot believe Andrew is five. Five is how old you are when you start kindergarten. What the heck?!

December:

This month brought some stress. Andrew had a rash of some type from the end of August through December. We finally saw a dermatologist in the beginning of Dec where I was told that he had 4 or 5 different rashes, all common childhood rashes with no fix and no way to prevent them from happening again. I asked if there was any concern that he got a bunch one on top of the other and the doctor said it was just bad luck.

We also saw Santa stop off at Starbucks, so that was cool. : )

Happy new year, friends. I hope each of you find this year filled with happiness!