1.14.2013



well 2012, i started the year with a post saying that we had high hopes for this last year. and that i love looking back at the previous year's post and reading about my own naivety about the year to come.

tonight i read the last couple of years new years posts and just couldn't believe how much my life has changed so quickly. when i wrote the 2012 post, i was eagerly hoping to become pregnant soon, and sure enough, a couple of weeks later, i was...with our precious reese!

so this year was spent chasing a two year old, while pregnant, doing house renovations, celebrating a new three year old, watching close friends move away and making new ones, celebrating having A BABY GIRL, welcoming and loving her, and enjoying family, both family moving closer and family visiting and family GROWING. so yeah, it's been quite a year.

so many changes, and they just keep coming. so 2013 is again full of promise. this week we have been potty training link, slowly starting reese on more formula, recovering from a family-wide illness, a busy work week for me, travel for work for jay, and stuck-inside-praying-that-this-cold-weather-will-kill-off- the-mosquitoes so we have a mosquito free spring and summer ahead! :)


reese turned three months old on the 2nd - and is the most precious baby ever. so sweet and so perfect in every way. she is thriving and we love to see her smile.

time with the family at the heart of dallas bowl, that jay helped plan! go pokes! :)


at the cotton bowl with jay - not a fun outcome, but a fun night together. we love our date nights - thanks to some great family and babysitters they are not as rare as they once were.


love 'em


link is obsessed with super heroes. esp captain america and spiderman.


avengers, assemble!


link and his buddy wade - they are SUCH great friends. so adorable how much they love each other and how excited they get to hang out. :)

cheers to 2013. bring it! we cannot wait for a fun year with our two beautiful children and each other. may this be a year of worship, growth, family, friendship and new horizons. God, grant us the wisdom and courage to follow where you lead.