New Years Eve 2020!!!

We had a great time hanging out with friends for New Years Eve!  We played lots of games (mainly to stay awake ha) and ate lots of food.  Love our village!

And while we were partying at the Luces', Karis was partying it up with her friends at a sleepover!  So thankful for these friends for her!

2018 Year End Review

Looking back at 2018 brings tears to my eyes at how good and faithful the Lord has been to us.  We have gone through so much transition over the past year and it is amazing to look back and see how much we have grown!

Just to recap....end of 2017 we had just resigned from a job overseas that we loved and took a step of faith and Jay took a job at Faith Baptist in Bartlett.  The kids finished a homeschool year, we moved to a rental house a month later, went to Ghana in summer of 2018, the kids tested in and transitioned into public school in the Fall, got our first puppy, Jay traveled to Brazil, Brayden transitioned to the youth group, Karis got braces, and Amanda started the process to reinstate teaching license.  We also got to experience many birthday and holidays in the States with family which we will never take for granted again. The Lord gave us so many new friends within our church family which was so needed!

We end 2018 with a full heart!

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New Year's Eve 2018....

We had a blast ringing in the New Year 2019 with some of our closest friends!  We ate all night, played lots of games, laughed a ton, watched the ball drop in NYC and counted down to 2019!

This year was a little bittersweet because this is the first year Karis spent the New Year with her friends.  We knew the day would come and it is a bittersweet day.  When we moved home we knew this time in her life was very pivotal and we prayed so hard for her to meet some close friends.  And the LORD has been so faithful to us.  Not only did she meet one really good friend (which is really what we prayed for), but he gave her so many more than we expected.  These girls have been such a blessing in her life and other than us, there is no other people we would rather her ring in the New Year with.  We missed her so much but are so grateful for how things have progressed over the past year! 

New Year's Eve 2017!

New Year's Eve

I know I am getting old because there is nowhere else I would rather be on New Year's Eve than home with my family!

S'mores and family...nothing better.