January 2019

What the what?! January is already done. Quite the blur. The holidays held some personal challenges for our family, January has been about finding out the next steps. I feel really good about God helping us build community that "sees" us as we are and is loving us through it. I feel also that He is leading me in this new territory; teaching me to bring my family before Him in a way I honestly haven't endeavored to at such an intimate level. I typed a huge thing about my Nana's passing that also happened this month. Then it didn't save. It's so defeating when that happens! I guess I'm forced to put the shortened version now. I just want to say that everything happened according to God's plan. He really showed Himself faithful through the whole week of her sickness and passing, and the following two weeks of difficult decisions; how do you "wrap up" a life? By the grace of God. I've included some pictures. It looks like I will loose all three of my grandmothers in a six month span. It's tough but I remember the good times. My Grandma Miller is in renal failure and will join Jesus soon.
So quite a month, I'm honestly glad it's done.

December 2018

Okay, so I have next to no pictures this year from Christmas. It was the first time in probably six years we had Christmas "at home". Of course it was the Sunday before Christmas but still, we enjoyed opening presents as a family and being able to leave them behind instead of stuffing them into the van. 

at this point we had already enjoyed getting together with Jeremy's dad and stepmom and the girls and their boys. We also had a wonderful time the weekend before at Jeremy's moms with his siblings and all of the cousins made it to both grandparents for the first time in a few years so that was really nice.

Moving on to moms. . .  .

I gave my sister a twenty-three and me kit, which I did as a well; turns out we are %100 DNA match. As if we ever thought it was otherwise, lol!

We had a lot of fun doing paint pours with all the kids. 

December went super fast but it felt good to get semester one of CC in the bag, visit family, and have some down time. I know we did a ton but honestly I don't have it in me to go back and try to remember it all. Maybe someday I will regret that but for tonight, I'm moving on to January.