2012 Review in Words and pictures

After reading some interesting month-to-month reviews on 2012

on my Aunt Kelly's blog here, 

and Michlyn's blog here,

I thought I'd like to try to do one.  Here it goes

 

January:

We deiced to adopt from the DRC.

We were referred a sibling group that we fell in love with.

I got a larger part in a play at a local theatre.

February:

We continued working on adoption paper work and getting ready for a larger family.

We were thrilled when our cousins got a referral for their son, Carson.

March

We had a wonderful time buying clothes and toys for Chance and Benjamin.

Our hearts were broken when we received the news that they could not be adopted.

We continued to do adoption paper work and went to Raleigh to get immigration fingerprints.

April



We went to TVR Christian camp and loved it.

We found joy even in our sadness when we went to stay with our cousins Lucy and Lindsey while the rest of their family went to pick up Carson from Korea. 

 

May

We continued to grieve the loss of Chance and Benjamin, but trusted that it was in God's hands.

Brandon celebrated his 10th birthday at my grandparents house.

We were finally referred Bethany and Kaden and excitedly accepted them both!

We started getting ready for two new little ones and thoroughly enjoyed it!

June

We officially became a family of seven!

We started foregoing normal meals and ate rice and beans for a little while to raise money for the orphanage.

We ran a 5k.

We celebrated my Mom and Dad's 15 wedding anniversary.

 

July

I turned 13.

We had long swim practices and meets.

We went to the beach with my Dad's family.

We enjoyed watching the Olympics.

We started school early.

 

August

We got an embassy appointment.

We waited and waited.

We had a funny experience buying conditioner for Bethany's hair.

 

September

David turned 8.

Dad met Bethany and Kaden for the first time!  (sept. 10th)

 

 

We spent by far the longest time apart from my Mom and Dad when they traveled to Congo for 2 weeks to get Bethany and Kaden.

October

Bethany and Kaden came HOME!!!!

 Definitely the highlight of 2012!

November

We got our first family pictures and adjusted to being a family of 7

December

Enjoyed many new firsts and loved Christmas and family time!

 

There we go,

2012 review is over, just in time for 2013.

 As a side note, today last year we decided to adopt from Congo!