HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Happy New Year to all our friends and family! We hope and pray you all have a blessed 2009 and hope that things will be better for us as well. I know next year all my kids will be with us and that gives me something to look forward to so much! Greg and I brought the new year in already in bed, but woke up by fireworks and Sascha barking at them as they went on for over an hour. Hannah said she was going to stay up, but we said happy new year to her at 11:15 as she went to bed and said she was tired. We picked up around the house some today after eating breakfast, so as to not come home to a messy house. We are leaving in the morning to go to Houston and spend a few days with my family before getting the girls on Monday! And yes, I am counting down, we are now under 4 days until they are back in my arms! I beat Greg and Hannah at a very long game of Scrabble earlier and Hannah already has electronic Monopoly out for us to play later! I just wanted to say thank you to all of you for your prayers for our family and we hope and pray for a very special 2009! We love you all!
The Sun City
We have been out here in El Paso for over 8 months now and are beginning to get settled in. We are a little cramped in a much smaller house, but we are together and that is all that matters. It is pretty out here, but definitely different from South Carolina. We have been to the yearly air show on Ft. Bliss already and the girls, as well as Greg, enjoyed getting to see all the military planes, tanks, and missile launchers. We have been doing lots of hiking and rock climbing. We have explored Hueco Tanks State Park twice now and bought a park pass so we can go back many more times this year. We can't wait to see all the plants and cactuses bloom next spring. They say the bottom side of the mountains we are near, the Franklin Mountains, are covered with Mexican Poppies in the spring.
We have had some new additions to our family since we moved. I know what you are thinking and no we really didn't need more mouths to feed. We bought a full blooded German Shepherd female puppy named Sascha. She is 4 months old now and weighs about 40 pounds already. Hannah went to the bank with me one day and found a stray cat that came home with us. I am a softy and couldn't give it away after seeing Hannah get so attached. Her name is Libby and she is still trying to figure out Goober. Lauren and Shelby also have a male beta, named Larry, in their room now. We told them we are maxed out on pets and will never be able to go on vacation again.
Our Story
Greg and I were married on April 17th, 2007. We had a whirl wind romance and knew without a doubt that God had blessed us with one another the day we met. We feel blessed to have been given a second chance at love and will always honor God for that by keeping him first in this marriage. We are very proud to have 7 children combined and have even considered adopting one of our own some day, if it is in God's plans. Our love for one another, the bond we share daily, and the overall way we feel towards each other continues to amaze us each day!
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