Our year in review...

What a great year it has been for the Rausch family,

here are just a few of the highlights...

 

 

January:

*Natalie's 1st time sledding outside in the snow

*Spending the cold days inside making cookies

*Going bowling with my family, Natalie's 1st time bowling

*Natalie was out of daycare for a couple days for RSV

 

 

February:

*Celebrating Valentine's Day with our lil' cutie

*Finding out we were expecting

*Natalie started Kindermusik class thru UNI

*Nights together reading, working on puzzles & coloring

 

March:

*Weekend trip - hotel/water park with the Rausch's

*Visiting the Easter Bunny, Natalie was not a fan

*Hosting the Sents Easter @ our house on Palm Sunday

*Celebrating Easter

April:

*Making the "BIG" announcement to family & friends

*Enjoying some time outside playing

*Celebrating Weston's 1st B'day

 

 

May:

*Finding out we were having another girl

*Having family over for "Gender Reveal Party"/Mother's Day

*Celebrated Kaylee's 1st B'day

*Natalie's 1st haircut

*Daddy's b'day - pizza & ice cream with us girls

*Natalie's Spring Program @ Daycare

*Rausch Family Wedding @ Pike's Peak

*Played with bubbles outside

*Daddy built new back deck on house

 

 

June:

*Went to My Waterloo Days Parade

*Painted Natalie's new bedroom & moved her into it/new toddler bed

*Wellsburg Parade with the Brouwers & Frannie

*Natalie picked out 2 fish for her new fish tank

*Baked cookies & delivered them to "the guys" for Father's Day

*Visited Grandpa Sents @ the University of Iowa Hospital after hip surgery

*Started our garden

*Natalie 1st time fishing

*Painted the baby's room

 

July:

*Played outside in our jumper

*Celebrated 4th of July at home, playing in the sprinkler and showing off Daddy's finished John Deere tractor on the front lawn

*Family trip to Des Moines/Blank Park Zoo

*Brouwers moved into their new house in Parkersburg so Carson & Weston hung out with us for a couple of days

*Daddy & Natalie participated in the Hudson Days Kiddie Parade

August:

*Went to the Bremer County Fair with Carson & Weston as they got to spend the weekend with us

*Celebrated Frannie's B'day with an outside BBQ at our house

*Played at the school playground

*Natalie's 2nd B'day - Grandma Sally in town for the party

*Went to CEC on Natalie's "real" b'day with the Asche's

*Took a weekend trip to see Papa & Frannie in Prairie

 

 

September:

*Celebrated Grandparent's Day with all the grandparents we love!

*Sents get together at the Brouwers' house - outside pool party for the kids

*Natalie's 1st trip to the dentist

*Grandpa & Grandma Sents' Anniversary Party @ Church

*Angie took snapshots of the Rausch Family of 3

*Attended Oktoberfest in CF for the 1st time

*Addison Marie Rausch was born

 

 

October:

*Addison had her 1st bath at home by Frannie

*Natalie started Kindergym class thru UNI

*Decorated pumpkins/made caramel apples & cookies

*Natalie's 1st field trip - to the fire station & Daddy went along

*Grandma Sally came to visit, got to meet Addi

*Natalie's open house at daycare

*Celebrated Gary's B'day with a Hawkeye Party

*Took the first of many "sisters" snapshots

*Mommy & Natalie went to Barn Stahl's Fall Open House

*Celebrated Halloween/went Trick-or-Treating

*Celebrated Carson's 4th B'day 

 

November:

*Addison got baptized at Orchard Hill Church

*Celebrated Thanksgiving with family

*Addison's 1st overnight trip...to G&G Rausch's

*Decorated our house for Christmas

*Attended Holiday Hoopla for the 1st time

 

December:

*Elfy came to visit for most of the month

*Mommy attending the Women's Advent Event at OHC with Angie & Gma Sally

*Natalie' Christmas Program @ Daycare

*Annual Baking Day

*Natalie's 1st tractor ride with Uncle Chris & Papa

*Visited Santa (just Addi sat on his lap)

*Addison's 1st day @ daycare.....Mommy went back to work

*Christmas Eve Service @ OHC

*Celebrated Christmas as a family of 4

*Addison got to meet Great-Grandma Lansing

 

 

Looking forward to making lots of new memories in 2014.