Archive for 2016

2016 {Year in Review}

Saturday, December 31, 2016

January:

We spend New Years Day at a hotel in GR with the Rietman clan

Robb turns 32

Grayden goes to Lego club at the library

Jovie spends some time in the ER after ingesting some of my medication. 

Grayden goes to basketball camp

We attend Rob and Amanda's "Fiesta Party"

Another great "Favorite Things" party

February:
I spend a weekend at Woven Retreat for adoptive moms

IF: Gathering 

We donate blankets to HDCH in memory of Brenham's 8th birthday 

March:
The boys go to Monster Jam 

Easter Sunday

April:

Sadler turns 5!

We spend a week in Gulf Shores over Spring Break

We have a TMNT party for the boys' birthdays

May:

Tulip Time


Grayden turns 7


Sadler graduates pre-school

Mothers Day

Robb goes deep sea fishing in Key West

Memorial Day Parade

June:

Grayden finishes 1st Grade


The boys go to tennis camp

Strawberry picking


Fathers Day

Camping at Hungry Horse

Break ground on the new building

July:

Fourth of July

The boys go to Nature Camp

VBS

We have family pictures taken

We spend a few days at the cottage with friends 

Jovie starts potty training

We spend a day at Michigan's Adventure

We take a trip to the zoo!

August:
We spend a week camping at Tri-ponds

Sadler spends some time in the ER after hitting his head on a pole

We compete in the ORC Amazing Race

Back to school date with Sadler

Back to school date with Grayden 

Hudsonville Fair

We say our Earthly goodbyes to Grandpa Lubbers

September:

Labor Day Truck Parade

Back to School Scavenger Hunt

Sadler starts Kindergarten 


Grayden starts 2nd Grade

I turn 31



The boys start their first year of soccer!


We go to a Tigers Game

Apple Picking at Cranes'

Jovie and I host some friends for a tea party

October:
Danny Gokey concert with my sisters

8 years post transplant

3rd Annual "Hungry Games" competition 

We celebrate 11 years of marriage

Weekend fun at Soaring Eagle Waterpark 

Trick or Treating

November:

Host our first Thanksgiving dinner

Thanksgiving 

December:

Jovie turns 3!

She has a "Pancake and Pajama" party

 
Christmas Program at church 

trip to the Critter Barn for the live nativity

Christmas 

NYE at Scott and Stacey's house 




Thank you, Lord for blessing us so richly in 2016.

I thank you for keeping our family safe, I praise you for our health, and for restoring our bodies when we’ve been sick. Thank you for our jobs and for providing all that we need, and more. Thank you for the awesome opportunities we’ve had to travel and see the beauty you’ve created around us. Thank you for our children and blessing us with them.
Thank you for our marriage and for giving us 11 wonderful years together. Thank you for all the fun times we’ve spent this past year with friends and family and for the blessings they are in our lives. 
Lord, I pray for your protection over our family in 2017, and for continued health and happiness. We ask you to guide us in the year to come as we seek your will for our lives. We look forward to what your plan holds for us in the coming year. We know whatever comes our way, you will be there through it all. Help us to live our lives in a way that may please you in the year to come.
Amen


Happy New Year!!


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