January:
I attend Noonday Collection''s annual conference, SHINE, in Austin, TX
Robb turns 34!
Another great year at WOVEN, an adoptive mom retreat
February:
Trisha and I see the Moxie Matters event with Jen Hatmaker
Another great year at IF: Gathering
We get 10 chicks!
Rememebering Brenham on his 10th birthday.
Grayden gets 1st place for his age group in the Cadet's pinewood derby race!
Annual Favorite Things party.
March:
We see a Charlotte's Web play
Cultivate Egg Drop
April:
Easter
Robb and I see MercyMe in concert
Spring Break outing to the Indianapolis Children's Museum
Field trip with Sadler to the butterfly gardens
Rend Collective in concert
Sadler turns 7!
Sadler starts baseball!
May:
We celebrate the boys' birthday with a camping party!
tulip time fun!
Grayden turns 9!
Mother's Day
Sadler wraps up indoor soccer clinic.
Jovie wraps up 3-school with an end of the year playground party.
Jovie rides in the Memorial Day float with her 3-school class.
June:
The boys finish 3rd and 1st grade
Father's Day
Family bike tour through Zeeland
Family trip to Biloxi, Mississippi!
Camping at Hungry Horse
July:
soccer camp
we celebrate 17 years of dates with dinner in Saugatuck
A week at a cottage on Minor Lake with the Lubbers
Anne visits from Alabama.
Hope College play with Grandma and Grandpa
4th of July at the cottage
Family beach day at Millennium Park.
Jovie starts gymnastics.
Whitecaps game!
Camp Geneva for the boys!
Fun with the Meiste's at the cottage
August:
Camping at Dunes Harbor.
Back to school date with Sadler
Back to school date with Grayden.
Grandpa's ground breaking ceremony for the new Kalamazoo location.
back to school scavenger hunt with Grandma and Grandpa
Sadler starts Fall soccer, Robb assistant coaches.
Sadler starts 2nd Grade.
Grayden starts 4th Grade.
back to school date with Jovie.
Camping at Oak Grove over Labor Day weekend,
September:
Labor Day Truck parade
We rent scooters and have a day of fun on my 33rd birthday.
Jessica Honegger's book tour comes to GR
Jovie starts pre-school!
October:
Celebrate 10 years post kidney-trasnplant with a Caribbean cruise.
We celebrate our 13 year wedding anniversary!
Grayden runs in his first 5k race
Lubbers annual Hungry Games
annual Right to Life Banquet
Halloween
November:
Thankgiving
We join Grayden in the Let Me Run 5k
We spend a week in Disney World.
December:
We celebrate Jovie's birthday with a Princess Tea Party!
Jovie turns 5!
Grayden had flag duty at school
Grayden attends basketball camp
Escape room with friends!
Fun up north at the Meiste's cabin
Christmas
Date night with the Roelofs for a belated celebration of 10year kidney -versary
New Years Eve at home!
Thank you, Lord for blessing us so richly in 2018.
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 13 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 2018, 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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