Year in Review

I stole this idea from a good friend. Thanks Becky!! It is amazing and wonderful to see how God blessed us in 2008 and look forward to His many blessings in 2009!

January: Kaylee has just turned 5 and sang her first solo in church. Molly is working in home health and Phillip is preparing to go to Africa with his friend Matt. We make several trips to Dallas to get "survival gear". Reese learns to run really well. She started walking in November and really was on the go now! We also begin to feel the Lord's tug on being open to God's plan for us. We visit friends Joe and Andrea and see Jeff and Jenn as well. Phillip leaves for Africa Jan 27.

February: Phillip is in Africa and the girls and I are surviving as best we can. Phillip attempted to call and I was at the Mercy Me concert. Thankfully I got a call 2 days later. Phillip returns to the states and his grandmother passes away as he is landing and Phillip did the service. He is amazing.

March: Was pretty quiet for us. Much needed actually looking back. At the time we had no clue as to what was ahead for us. We have the earliest Easter ever and it won't happen again for 92 years. I think I will probably miss it.

April: We make a trek to Sterling City for Phillip's dad's birthday. Molly had lasik eye surgery and loved it and I quit my job because I was working a ton of overtime and my boss didn't seem to care. Took a job with another home health care agency with a promotion.

May: In the first week of May we got a call from First Baptist church in Sweetwater. We sent our resumee and met with the search committee the last week of May and were thrilled with the possibilities.

June: The search process continues. We actually had people from the search committee visit for 4 consecutive Sundays. One Sunday we did not have a pianist and sand with tracks fro 35 minutes and one Sunday we did not have power and started our service with the lights out. They did come on about 15 minutes in. There was a lot of stress.

July: The process is continuing to go well. I tell my work that we would probably be moving soon. I was hoping to transfer with the company at first until I started seeing some crazy stuff going on. They ended up letting me go most likely because they thought that I knew I would be leaving prior to taking the job but I had no clue at the time. But God is Good! We get the call at the end of July that we would be coming in-view-of-a-call.

August: We pack and pack and throw away and throw away. We go to Crystal Beach with Phillip's family and had a wonderful time. We decide that we need to go there every year. (Didn't know that a month to the day later there would no longer be a Crystal Beach to go to this year, but hopefully in a few). We move to Sweetwater and Kaylee starts kindergarten and Reese starts full time day care and the most wonderful place ever. Reese turns 2!!

September: Molly starts a new job but old job. I started working for Hendrick Hospice Care again but this time in Home Care. I love Hospice and feel that is where God has truly called me. Reese really starts talking and we begin attending Mustang football. We are big high school football fans and love it. Kaylee starts with a new gymnastics.

October: We had fun with Halloween. Kaylee was a cowgirl and Reese was her little cow. They got lots of compliments. We celebrated Nana, Aunt Snell, Papa, and Aunt April's Birthdays. Crazy fun! Kaylee goes back to Gymnastics Sports Center with her cousin Emily.

November. We have Phillip and Molly's birthday. We celebrate Kaylee's birthday early so that hopefully the weather will be nice. It wasn't but all the girls had a great time. We have community and church services. We are staying nice and busy. Get to visit some with friends Craig and Fallon at the Baptist General Convention of Texas. We had a lot of fun and the kids stayed with friends. We try to slowly get Christmas shopping completed.

December: We find out on Dec 2 that Aunt Christy is having a baby boy and that we are expecting our 3rd child. Kaylee turns 6 and then find out that Aunt Mendy and Uncle Steve are going to be adopting a precious little baby named Alex. He gets to come home on Christmas Eve and we celebrate Christmas with all of our families and it was great!

God's blessings are ever present in our lives and we Thank HIM every day!!