months have gone by so fast I can't believe Christmas was just a few weeks ago. So to catchup quickly here is snap shot of the past few months...November 6th was Joel's 26th Birthday he celebrated in Fort Benning, Georgia with his Army buddies
November 9th-12th Kelly and I headed to Georgia to see Joel during his Infantry Graduation. What and amazing time watching Joel finally graduate after 4 months of hard core training.
November 25th Thanksgiving it was so nice be able to have dinner together with Joel, my heart went out to everyone who has a solider that was not with themWe were able to spend time with my cousins, my brother and my nephew!
December seemed to be way too busy it went by so fast lots of fun Christmas parties, busy shopping, working a lot and eating tons of food!
December 10th We had our 2nd annual Ugly Christmas sweater party, what a hilarious time! Everyone was so creative and shopped very well for Ugly sweaters!
December 24th Christmas Eve came so quick! I felt good about gifts this year, I really try to shop all year long to avoid the madness during this week. Our church had 4 services, there were so many new people that came what a lovely time to celebrate Christ's birth!
That evening we all went over to my moms house to open presents and enjoy our time together.
Christmas day! We had to wake Jeffrey up around 8:00am to get the day moving along, he was not too happy. We brought him over to his santa gifts he was a little cranky the whole morning but as the day went on he got better. That morning we went over to Kelly's house to open presents from everyone! That evening for the 1st time ever we went to the movies! I think I might start this as a new
tradition it was fun seeing everyone on Christmas day with all their families.
What a wonderful and laid back Christmas we had
Happy New Year!
December 31st-January 3rd
We drove up to Greer, AZ up in the white mountains, the drive was defiantly an adventure... snow, chains, traffic etc... when we finally arrived there was so much snow and it was so nice to bundle up in a beautiful cabin!
We loved playing in the snow, we went sledding, played a game of football, and just rolled around the beautiful powder of snow!
Jeffrey was not too sure about playing in snow but he loved being outside and wear his snow boots!
January 7th: We decided that it would be best for our family to sell our house, we are going to try to rent a house closer to "town." Our house is officially on the market so we will see if its in God's plan for us to move.
In other news we are still trying figure out what our "next step" will be....
Joel might deploy to Afghanistan in March
He will be going back to school to get his pilots license (just not sure when)
Starting to potty train our lovely 2 year old
Is it time for a big boy bed? Hmmm
In the mean time we are enjoying our crazy journey we are on.....
I wonder what will be next :)
