The Hall's Year In Review: 2013 Edition:

As we ring in this New Year
And we reflect on what has been
Let us continue to count our blessings
And start fresh once again!

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As I sit here and type and reflect on all that our year has given us, I feel overwhelmed with how truly blessed we have been!

This year was a celebration of so many firsts with our sweet Charli:
Celebrating Charli's First Valentine's Day with a Party
Visiting Napa for the first time
Celebrating Charli's First St. Patrick's Day with a few Parties
Charli learning how to crawl
Charli making so many of her very first Friends
Celebrating Charli's First Easter
Celebrating Charli's First Memorial Day
Learning how to Walk
Celebrating Charli's First 4th of July
Celebrating Charli's very First Birthday

Some other highlights from our year include:

Starting this Blog

Vacationing to San Diego: Where Charli visited Sea World and the Zoo for the first time

Steven turning 33

Celebrating our Second Wedding Anniversary

A trip to Yosemite National Park

Visiting Sacramento and seeing the homes we both lived in when we were little

Vacationing in Gig Harbor

Charli meeting some of her Great Grandparents for the first time

Celebrating my very first Mother's Day

Saying goodbye to Monterey, CA  which was our very first Home as a family of 3

Steven Graduating with his Masters Degree from The Naval Postgraduate School

Celebrating Steven's first Father's Day

Celebrating my 10 Year Reunion

Moving into our Charleston home

Turning 28

Already having so many friends and family visiting us here in Charleston

Hootie Concert with my mom

Weaning Charli from breastfeeding at 14 months

Mumford and Sons Concert and my first weekend away from Charli and Steven

Finally taking our Honeymoon to Jamaica

And so many other little moments and memories scattered in between!

We of course have our ups and downs, our good times and bad, and still cope with my Illness day in and day out. But that is what makes it life!
Thank you 2013, for giving us all that you did, and for truly making it such a great year!

As wonderful as 2013 was to us, I cannot wait to see what 2014 has in store for our little family!

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My goals and resolutions as we enter the New Year, is what I already strive to do with every new day...
And that is to better myself as a wife, a mother, a friend, and to be a better person!

I hope everyone has a blessed and Happy New Year! 

Here's to 2014!!! 

"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right"

- Oprah Winfrey