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2019: A Year in Review

December 31, 2019 by Emily Leave a Comment

Happy New Year’s Eve! I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas season and has plans for an exciting New Year’s week. We got home on Sunday afternoon from a whirlwind Christmas trip to DFW, St. Petersburg, FL, and San Antonio, and we plan on having a very quiet New Year’s week at our house. So far, so good!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comI’ve done these Year in Review posts since my blog first began in 2013, and I love writing them and looking back on them. I had completely forgotten until writing this post that I skipped 2018’s year in review. I blogged very little in 2018 after the birth of my son and found myself unable to get back into any sort of routine or day-to-day life tasks until early 2019. I’m sad I didn’t get that posted – maybe I’ll do a retrospective look at 2018 at some point. But today I’m here to share a look at 2019!

2019 was such a fun year. I felt like I really learned how to be a mother and to be myself at the same time. We bought our first home. We did some traveling. I started blogging again. I started a position at work that has freed up my schedule and has allowed me to be a part-time working mom/part-time stay-at-home mom. Our baby boy had many milestones including learning to walk, turning one, starting daycare, getting a passport and traveling overseas, and starting to talk. Late in the year, we found out that we are expecting another baby boy in April 2020! Daniel, Carson, and I have just had such a blast in these early months of growing our little family.

January

For us, Januarys are usually quiet months for reflecting after the busyness of the holiday season. Not so much in 2019!

We started the year off with a New Year’s Day brunch at Kerbey Lane as a family. Here we learned that Carson unfortunately has an egg allergy.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comAbuela came for a visit and watched Carson while we spent lots of time house hunting one weekend.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.com 2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comWithin the first couple weeks of the year, we went from considering looking at homes in Dripping Springs to signing a contract on a brand new home in a brand new community! This was one of the best decisions we’ve made. We love our home.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comSince our plans to buy and move away from the downtown area in April 2019 suddenly changed to February 2019, we started cramming in as many of our  South/ Downtown Austin favorites as possible, including the Barton Springs Food Truck Park.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comDaniel hobbled around on a cast starting at the end of January after wearing a boot for most of the holiday season during 2018.

Carson has loved picture books from his first few days of life, but he really started listening to stories in books around the beginning of 2019.

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February

The second month of 2019 started with a visit from Aunt Ellen! I love having my sister visit, but Carson loved it even more!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comWhile Ellen was here, we made it to the first part of Aunt Liz’s super bowl party. Elizabeth lives in Austin, and Ellen lives in Dallas.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comCarson continued to be adorable and crazy….

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comThis handsome man turned THIRTY in February! We celebrated by asking the nanny to stay a couple extra hours and getting dinner at one of our favorite Austin restaurants, Fixe.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comFor Carson’s first Valentine’s Day, he got Sophie the teether giraffe’s cousin, the elephant. He was pretty excited.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comMy grandfather’s birthday is on Valentine’s Day. We stopped and had dinner with my grandparents before meeting my mother-in-law to send Carson to their house for the weekend.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comThe next few days, we closed on our home and moved out of the apartment and into our first home! We had spent 4 years in that downtown Austin apartment building, so it was definitely bittersweet.

Bye bye, cozy apartment….

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2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.com 2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.com We had a very helpful move-in crew!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comDuring moving weekend, I escaped to a coffee shop to meet my friend Kaitlin’s adorable baby girl and catch up for a few minutes before they moved back to DC. Kaitlin and fam, we miss you so!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comCarson came to join in on the unpacking fun!

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March

Carson continued his swimming lessons in the spring. He has been in lessons since he was two months old!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comMarch was a very busy work month for me, so Carson got lots of one-on-one time with his Daddy this month!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.com 2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.com 2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comMy parents took Carson to their home in San Antonio for the weekend, so that we could make some more progress unpacking the house. They had a wonderful Gramma & Grampa weekend! My cousin took some fantastic bluebonnet photos.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.com2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comUncle Ben came to visit us from Waco!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comWe took a family outing to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. It is so beautiful in March!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comAnd we spent some time getting to know our new backyard and our new neighborhood as the beautiful spring weather arrived!

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April

This month was mostly centered around our baby boy turning ONE and the celebration of Easter!

Abuelo and Abuela came for a visit. We ate dinner at Salt Lick (Liz and Jason joined!) and hung around our new town.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comWe did a family photo shoot in honor of Carson’s birthday….

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Our neighborhood had an Easter event with an egg hunt and a visit from the Easter bunny!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.com 2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comThe night before Easter, we snuck away for a Snow Patrol concert, which was one of my favorite concerts I’ve ever been to.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comCarson’s first Easter was wonderful! We went to church and brunch with Liz and Jason, opened Carson’s Easter basket, and all of us took long naps!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.com 2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comFor Carson’s actual birthday day, we had donuts for breakfast and went to the Thinkery to play. Such a fun family day!

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Friends and family came to our new house for a Winnie-the-Pooh themed birthday party for our little man. You can read all about the party here.

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May

Daniel was on the planning committee for the second annual Longhorn PHP conference, which was held in May.

I went out of town in Atlanta for work, and Daniel and Carson went to a Cinco de Mayo party in our neighborhood.2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comDaniel and Carson flew to Atlanta to join me when my training was over, and we visited my cousin’s sweet family. We had a blast going to the aquarium and exploring their new town!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.com 2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.com 2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.com 2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.com 2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comI turned 30 and celebrated with Via 313 pizza (the best!) and good friends.

Daniel and I took a baby-free trip to Savannah & Hilton Head to celebrate 8 years of marriage.

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June

We took a road trip to visit my grandparents (Mama Dee & Papa Dee) in East Texas.

Daniel went on his annual Appalachian Trail hike with his buddies.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comWe celebrated Daniel’s second Fathers’ Day with brunch at Treaty Oak and a family walk in the neighborhood.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comCarson saw his (sort of) first movie! He had been to the theater as an infant when we went to a couple baby-friendly showings, but this was his first theater movie where he actively watched.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comThe rest of the month was thankfully spent at home, so we did fun summer things around town like going to the splash pad with friends.

July

For the 4th of July, we went to Fort Worth to visit Daniel’s parents (Abuelo & Abuela) where we had a fun July 4th meal, a visit to the Botanical Gardens, and an afternoon swim!

Carson got his passport photo taken… So adorable!

Carson had his FIRST haircut!

And Abuelo and Abuela came to town again to watch Carson while we took off on another baby-free trip to NYC! Daniel ended his time there with a conference, and I came home earlier to reunite with Baby Boy.

The next weekend, Carson and I flew to meet Daniel in Colorado for a friend’s wedding, where we stayed a couple days extra to explore the beautiful mountains!

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Carson started daycare for the first time this month too.

August

This month we laid low at home and around the neighborhood. Unfortunately, Carson was sick almost this entire month due to starting daycare. I took a lot of time off work to stay home with him.  We even had two visits to the emergency room this month.

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We did get a wonderful weekend visit from Gramma & Grampa!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comAnd a visit from our good friends Heather & Cody!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comThis month, we also found out we were expecting our second baby!

September

My mom started coming to watch Carson one day a week, which was such a wonderful change for Carson and our family.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comMy sister Ellen and her fiancé Lane came for a weekend visit. We took a day trip out to Shiner!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comWe got to see our second little one for the first time!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comDaniel and I went to a concert by The National.

We visited Fort Worth where we went on a train and visited the aquarium.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.com2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comWe went to East Texas to visit one set of my grandparents and then visited my other grandparents on the way home from this trip.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comCarson was getting excited about being a big brother!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comI saw the Jo Bros in San Antonio with my sisters.

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October

This month was all about celebrating autumn & Halloween and preparing for and going on our big family trip to London! (You can read about that trip here, here, and here.)

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.com 2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.com 2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comWe also got a nice visit from Uncle Jacob, Daniel went on a guys’ trip to Denver, and Carson visited Gramma & Grampa in San Antonio (while I got a weekend at home on my own with a quick San Antonio visit to join the family at the zoo).

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November

Daniel’s twin brother Jacob got married the first weekend in November in College Station, so we had a fun weekend celebrating for Jacob and Jamie!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.com2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comCarson started a new daycare which we LOVE!

We visited a pumpkin patch where Carson had his first pony ride.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comWe did another family photo session in our neighborhood which ended up being our Christmas card photos.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comCarson had his first dentist appointment and did so well!

 

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comDaniel and I went to a Jon McLaughlin concert. Love him!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comWe went on a Christmas train ride with our friends Kim, Jordan, and little Loretta!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comWe started decorating the house for Christmas.

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comOur friends Shannon and Jonathan were in town one weekend, so we had a wonderful Sunday brunch with them!

2019 Year in Review | EverydayAccountsBlog.comWe ended November with a very cozy Thanksgiving at my parents’ new home in San Antonio.

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December

I’ll be sharing my December Scenes From the Month post next week which will show all of the magical Christmasy things we did to end out 2019, but here are a few photos capturing the highlights: a one night trip to Dallas for my cousin Rebecca’s wedding, a trip to East Texas for my extended family Christmas, a trip to St. Petersburg, Florida with Daniel’s family to visit his Grandma during Christmas week, and a short weekend in San Antonio to round out the Christmas travels.

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{Thanks for reading! Want to know a little more about me? I’m a CPA learning how to balance a career with motherhood and regular travel while planting roots at home in the Austin, TX area. When I’m not exploring my home city with my husband Daniel and baby boy Carson or cuddling with my chubby orange cat Banana, I’m probably either out on a playdate with my son or planning, packing for, traveling to, or daydreaming about our next adventure. After all, my travel mug collection is never complete. If you have wanderlust too, be sure to follow me on Instagram (and InstaStories!), Pinterest, and Facebook, or subscribe to my blog!}

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