I've said it before- we really aren't New Years people. In fact, we didn't do anything special for New Years. Ben and the boys were in Texas, I was home with Davis and we went to bed like any other night. It's okay to not go all out for every holiday.
When I reflect on 2019, I realized that overall that year was kind of hard! Between a miscarriage and then getting pregnant but being miserably sick, physically and emotionally it was a hard year for me. Of course, we are so blessed and excited for this little girl to join us in 2020, but the pregnancy itself has been kind of rough for me (as they always are). Ben has had a long year at his job- long hours, lots of stress, not quite enough money- you know the story. Not that this year has been terrible or horrible- but it has been HARD. I think through all its challenges we've grown a lot though, deepened our relationship with each other, strengthened our compassion for others, and overall been refined.
This year marked four years in our home and neighborhood and we are still thankful every single day we found this place. We continue to be in awe at the gorgeous views out our huge south facing windows. We love our kids school so much. And mostly we love these neighbors of ours. We've had so many wonderful memories with these friends- dinners and dessert nights, all hanging out in our front yards and chatting as the kids play, swapping babysitting, and so much love and support from these great people. It feels so good to be somewhere long enough to have developed some of these fun, deep friendships and I'm so thankful for them this past year (especially with all the hard stuff).
More than anything this year, Ben and I felt so blessed for our three sweet boys. They continue to make us laugh and bring so much joy to our lives. Life with three little boys is crazy a lot of the time, but we just really wouldn't have it any other way. These kids are our world.
It took us two weeks into January to finally pick a theme scripture this year- with so much going on in December we just didn't get it done. But one morning the perfect scripture came to my mind, "Search diligently, pray always, and be believing, and all things will work together for your good" Doctrine and Covenants 90:24. I think it will be a good one- good stuff for us to remember as we hope for more good to come in 2020.
Our other big goal for the New Year is to read the Book of Mormon as a family. We started on January 1st with chapter 1 of 1st Nephi and we've been pretty consistent on doing a chapter a day, stopping to discuss as we read. The boys follow along in their own scriptures and do some of the reading too. It's been awesome! They are doing so well. This will just be part of us trying to embrace the "search diligently" part of our theme.
So 2020, we are ready for you. We hope you bring us lots of joy, and with a baby girl due I can't imagine it will let us down!
When I reflect on 2019, I realized that overall that year was kind of hard! Between a miscarriage and then getting pregnant but being miserably sick, physically and emotionally it was a hard year for me. Of course, we are so blessed and excited for this little girl to join us in 2020, but the pregnancy itself has been kind of rough for me (as they always are). Ben has had a long year at his job- long hours, lots of stress, not quite enough money- you know the story. Not that this year has been terrible or horrible- but it has been HARD. I think through all its challenges we've grown a lot though, deepened our relationship with each other, strengthened our compassion for others, and overall been refined.
This year marked four years in our home and neighborhood and we are still thankful every single day we found this place. We continue to be in awe at the gorgeous views out our huge south facing windows. We love our kids school so much. And mostly we love these neighbors of ours. We've had so many wonderful memories with these friends- dinners and dessert nights, all hanging out in our front yards and chatting as the kids play, swapping babysitting, and so much love and support from these great people. It feels so good to be somewhere long enough to have developed some of these fun, deep friendships and I'm so thankful for them this past year (especially with all the hard stuff).
More than anything this year, Ben and I felt so blessed for our three sweet boys. They continue to make us laugh and bring so much joy to our lives. Life with three little boys is crazy a lot of the time, but we just really wouldn't have it any other way. These kids are our world.
It took us two weeks into January to finally pick a theme scripture this year- with so much going on in December we just didn't get it done. But one morning the perfect scripture came to my mind, "Search diligently, pray always, and be believing, and all things will work together for your good" Doctrine and Covenants 90:24. I think it will be a good one- good stuff for us to remember as we hope for more good to come in 2020.
Our other big goal for the New Year is to read the Book of Mormon as a family. We started on January 1st with chapter 1 of 1st Nephi and we've been pretty consistent on doing a chapter a day, stopping to discuss as we read. The boys follow along in their own scriptures and do some of the reading too. It's been awesome! They are doing so well. This will just be part of us trying to embrace the "search diligently" part of our theme.
So 2020, we are ready for you. We hope you bring us lots of joy, and with a baby girl due I can't imagine it will let us down!
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