2021 in review

 January 

- one month with Teddy!

- working from home

- decided to take boys out of daycare = saved a shit ton of money!

- navigating virtual school

- joe & kamala!

- started working on photobooks again :)

February

- return to in-person school!!!!

- surviving exposure quarantine

- the boys discovered minecraft

- organization station

- viral tiktok feta pasta

- still working from home

March 

- jack turns 6!

- school pictures

- michael connelly

- completed our 2017 photobooks!

- rosalle margarent wood art

- my first covid shot!!

- celebrated our 10th anniversary at home

- making the most amazing omelet

April

- April Fool's dinner

- easter baskets

- reading Simple Path to Wealth

- started 75 hard (didn't finish but know I can if I decide to do again)

- 2nd covid shots

 

May

- breakfast in bed for mother's day

- celebrated 10 year reunion at home, 8 months late. wish it was held in person

- lawn progress

- north liberty activities

- planted tomatoes

- DECORAH TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!

- more michael connelly

 

June

- Teddy's 1st haircut

- Owen in tennis lessons

- cousin time in strawberry point - 

- visiting Leta's grave site for the first time since her funeral

- Wold strawberries

- Kalona parade & eating a delicious pizza

- more cousin time celebrating great grandma's funeral (bowling and texas road house too!)

- boys back in daycare for the summer

 

July

- tomato babies coming in hot

- Coralville parade

- splashpads

- festive fourth of July food 

- watermelon

- Iowa city farmer's market and food trucks! OMG

- boys' first Kernal's game

- Jack in tennis

- homemade fish tacos

- daytrip to Bagley WI for camping!

- swimming pool w/ Gspice

- xmas in july

- tie dye

August 

- Des Moines trip with the kids

- tiki tacos in IC

- back to work in person 

- hybrid schedules

- 3/4 of us get covid after daycare exposure

- very mild cases of covid

- back to school night to drop off supplies and visit with teachers

- taking Jack to the fireworks to kick off the end of summer

- 1st day of school!

- fence install

- taste of IC on my own

September

- camping in Bagley

- food truck fight in Muscatine

- semi-private swimming lessons

- second camping trip to Bagley with cousins

- celebrating halloween early at the camp site; festive halloween food, trick or treat, haunted house

October

- watched Bridget in Matilda

- most epic solo Decorah trip - seeing an old friend/colleague who I thought I'd never see again, visiting my best friend, running into Bridget and the kids, eating a lovely meal with an expectant friend/colleague

- watching epic Iowa football game in strawberry point

- officially taking boys out of daycare :(

- BASP

- seeing Cassie again at the Iowa Football game 

- the most unintentionally expensive date night we've ever had. Oops.

- seeing Waitress with Bridget and my mom, dinner at Biaggis

- seeing the Robbins at Pinter's!

- going to Pinter's a second time to be there with Bridget and Cassie

- conference

- new professional of the year award

- trick or treating in NL

November

-I voted

- enjoying a day off from school with the boys - pizza ranch 

- NEIA high school musical tour and a delicious salmon from Old Rossville Store with Bridget and my mom

- Owen in voice lessons

- Owen turns 8

- potato leek soup

- parent trip to Minneapolis

- boys' first covid shot!

- 2nd annual HyVee thanksgiving meal - totally worth it

- my covid booster shot

December

- santa visits

- holiday lights

- Hawkeye basketball game

- Marquee Pizzeria

- holiday market in Coralville

- garage organization

- family Christmas in Strawberry Point

- boys' second covid shot

- Heartlanders hockey game

- finally convincing Gspice to keep temp down :)

- Sing 2 = perfect movie