The one where I come back....

I obviously gave up on this little blogging venture a while ago...WOW!  but I have some life changing things coming and want to be able to write about them for family and friends...and me :)

so, I will update this real quick before starting on the new stuff...

we have been on a cruise and had another baby since last I wrote.  really?  that's all that's changed??  hmmm...oh! I forgot, we bought a house in Beulah! and well, I guess that and we've added a new budding driver to the family...

for our fifteenth anniversary in june of 2011 brendan and I went to california and took a cruise for a week down to cabo san lucas and puerto vallarta.  it was amazing and so relaxing and fun! we went snorkeling and shopping and brendan got to zipline through the jungle!  we hope to do another cruise someday but maybe take the kids...we'll see :)

then I got pregnant after months of praying about letting God have control of our family size.  And little Micah James was born on April 26th, 2012. ok, not so little, he weighed 11lbs 6oz!!

of course he is big now...almost 18months!

our beautiful house in Beulah came to us in a round about way...we had talked for a couple of years about how fun it would be and we looked at this house across the street from grandad's. but it was out of our price range and we were in the middle of buying rentals, so it just wasn't possible.  well fast forward to june 2012 and brendan out of the blue says we should look to see if that house was still for sale...it was!!  we talked with the owner, a sweet old lady and she sold us the house for $50,000!  what a huge blessing as that was wahy under her original price.  we scraped up most the money and borrowed a little, and a year later we have it paid off!  we love it there, and though the house is small, we really all fit!  and have so much fun!

and jordan has grown so much! wow!  he now holds a learners permit and is becoming a fine driver.  my dad gave him grammie's old buick, so we are fixing it up and he will have that for his transportation! I can't find pictures so I'll wait to post more on that later.

we have some big things coming this year so I have decided to try to blog the coming journey.  hopefully I can record my thoughts and feelings along the way.