A Year in Review

Wow! I can't believe this year is over. Oh My.  Looking back this has been a very challenging year for us and I can't even begin to explain the stress and change we have experienced this year.  Do not take this as complaining but reflection.  We continue to be extremely blessed beyond measure, but this year the Lord was building our character as a family.  We experienced more major change in about 6 months  than most families experience in a decade.  I decided to pull a few of my favorite memories and meaningful events in picture to reminisce about our year.

JANUARY

In January we met the Williams family in KC to go to the Great Wolf Lodge Waterpark.  Matt had a meeting up here and Cam and I came along to spend time with the family.  Cami had a great time with all her cousins and man does she love to swim!

 FEBRUARY

At the end of January/ beginning of February Matt went to FL for the PGA show, we decided that it would be a great idea to send Cam with him to spend sometime with my dad whose health was failing.  This picture is from a quick trip to Sea World that they went to.  I was about 32 weeks pregnant.  Matt and I decided that it would be a great break for me to have some alone time and prep for the arrival of our sweet baby girl #2.

 MARCH

Sweet baby Reese Jilleann was born March 8th. What a special addition to our sweet family.  Not long after her birth Matt was offered a job and accepted.  So, our world went into hyper-speed with prep work for moving.

Happy Birthday Cami, our big girl turned 3!  We had a big party, which also turned into a fun going away shindig too!  

 APRIL

Moving day.  The start of our new life in KC.

Going away party.  The Burgess family threw us a wonderful going away party, it was a fantastic way to send us out.  We appreciated it so much and really felt so loved.

 MAY

Making New Friends.  We found a church that we felt really comfortable at and started developing relationships.  Here is Cami and her friend Livia.

sisters

Our first Royals game as a family.  Cami was the 'Fan of the Game'.

 JUNE

RJ's first bite of cereal

Exploring Kansas City.  KC area is so family friendly.  Its amazing how many wonderful activities that there are for free here.  It was one adventure after the other.  Kansas City is called the city of fountains, there are spray parks everywhere which is right up Cam's alley.

 JULY

My dad's health began to fail quickly in June, at the beginning of July Mom called and dad wanted me to bring the girls out one more time.  It was a very difficult trip for all of us.  We left August 5, Dad died 16 days later.

 AUGUST

We packed up the car and drove to El Paso to Celebrate my dad's life.  Here is a picture of him and I when I was a baby. He has been gone a while now, but I think and miss him everyday.  Thankful that he was able to know and love Cami so deeply and love, hold and rock Reese.

 SEPTEMBER

Matt qualified for his 15th USGA Championship.  He qualified for the USGA Mid-Am Championship in Chicago.  Matt's folks came with us. The golf didn't end up as we were hoping, but we had a great mini family vacation!

Cami also started Soccer in September.  It was fun.  We met some nice people.  Although I'm not sure soccer is going to be her sport.

 OCTOBER

We ran a 5K as a family.  It was COLD but a lot of fun. Very thankful to be near family!

 NOVEMBER

fall family photos 

 DECEMBER

lights and a carriage ride down at the Plaza.  

My mom came and spent the holidays with us.  We rode a carriage at the plaza, went to Branson and stayed at a hotel & waterpark and had a wonderful holiday season.


Overall we have so much to be thankful for during 2012!!!  We are especially thankful to our family and friends who supported us so fully throughout the year.  I'll do more blogging this week to catch up on the holidays ect.