2019

I quit blogging in 2019. It wasn't intentional. I got behind for January and February and then life got really crazy in March. I didn't have words for the rest of the spring. I spent June on the road. We moved back to Charleston in July. It has been a long, hard 6 months - actually 10 months. We've cried a lot of tears. We've done a lot of adjusting.  My stupid iPhoto has given me fits over this year in review video but it's a years worth of blogging in pictures and the highlights of a year we won't soon forget. As I've reflected on 2019 by going through my pictures, calendar and journal, I'm flat out grateful.

It's tradition that the last Sunday of the year, there's no church. Our family sat down and answered the following questions individually and then talked through them together. The list below largely came from that.

• What are things you want to remember from this year?
• What was hard this year?
• Where did you see God at work?
• What books did you read this year? 
• What music did you listen to this year?
• What are a few things you learned this year - about yourself, others, God or things that you learned at school that were interesting to you?
• What are 10 things you are thankful for? 

Unlike the pictures, these are in no particular order.

American Girl Store trip

GEMS

Kenneywood redemption field trip

science center field trip

band concerts

5th grade graduation

selling our house on facebook

talking about moving with the kids and our friends
running with Cole and Janell (and Joanna in the summer!)

rockbridge assignment
the horse barn

whole 30

chronological bible

mourning and dancing

Ted's last tooth fixed

book club

my blanket

first ward - jack roberts. white park.

ted. wyatt. sam. cooper. ashur. zion.

a million miles over the summer

a million miles in the fall

house hunting with stacy

long walk with Lorrie & Stacy

enneagram 9

daddy/daughter dance

canton with the sizicks

tudor farms with MSR

GOTR - coach. 5k.
ted's phone

lake champion leader weekend

sophie's pool party

cabin with the kozels

summer fun with ted: bike rides. black bears. coopers rock. sleepovers. fort night. parking playing.

lily's broken wrists

ikea. lowes. sherwin williams.

janell decorating my house and she still hasn't seen it

summer of pink

betsy & stella ate lactaid

alpine camp

lake day

beach, beach, beach - isaacs. caplingers. allens. tuels. bergs.

cross country. county champs.

marching band at football games

creating a new home

ADD

quarterly reflection with Lorrie

marco polo

halloween kid swap

keeping traditions

being able to host in our new house
target. lowes. home goods.

familiar friends
new schools

coffee with steph

greg painting
2 bathrooms

hot hot hot summer (into October)

Bethany's 40th birthday weekend

dad's surgery

mom's knee
steeler's games

we wonder advent

2 couches 

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