What a year!!!!

Where do I begin but life has been an amazing trip this past year.  Truly moving too fast to breathe and stop and smell the roses.  I'll attempt the year in review and get caught up on our blog.  So July as usual flies by with bday month and a trip to see Scott in Anacortes, WA.   We had a great visit and enjoyed our time with Scott.  Loved his home and Jailyn had a blast seeing her big brother and I think her highlight was picking strawberries and plopping down in the patch and just chowing down and spending time with her family.  Once July was over our world got crazy family challenges, all the final decisions on our new home just kept adding up and felt such an overwhelming stress on our lives.  Not to mention my family started to fall apart as we were gearing up for our move.  My brother had an accident that laid him up for months in rehab, we had a scare that mom might have pancreatic cancer and praise God was diagnosed with Diabetes instead and is now insulin dependent resulting in a hospital stay and total lifestyle change in her diet and my sister in law had to have her foot amputated.   Thank goodness everyone is managing a lot better now.  So my family was unable to help us watch Jailyn as we were trying to pack and get ready to move.  The goal was to move in August and ended up moving Sept 27.  We had two family weddings, my niece married in Sept and nephew in Oct which were a joy for us to attend in the midst of moving.  Jailyn started freaking out with getting ready to leave her home the only home with us she ever knew and Mike and I in a frenzy to finish the new house with all the contractors, sell the old home (which hallelujah sold 10 days after being on the market and we sold it ourselves taking a hit due to a neighbor low balling their home which was priced to low and went up the same weekend on the market but they had to sell).  C'est la vie it was sold woohoo!!!!  The house went up for sale the week before we moved, people were coming thru the house the whole time I am trying to get packed, Mike travelled the week before we moved (and I was still packing as the movers arrived) with Jailyn scared to death (and thank good saw the attachment and bonding therapist the week before to help Jailyn make the transition.). No sleep for the first two weeks and just totally overwhelmed with all the change.   We met every need to comfort Jailyn and she had just began preschool too when all this change was occuring.   God does not give you more than you can handle however I thought I was going to lose it!!!!  Then November came just sat and stared for a week and could not function.  Then the holidays.  Scott was in for thanksgiving and it was the best.  We had family portraits made which we so loved for our new home and had the best time with the whole family.  Then Christmas in our new home and it was so special in our new home we poured our heart and soul into.  However we decided next year we can not do Christmas with Mike's big family anymore Christmas Eve just too much on us and for Jailyn.  We want traditions that are enjoyable for our family and not so much work and stress.  I can't wait to be able to goto church Christmas Eve and not feel rushed and be able to enjoy our time with family.  Then the crazy winter of 2014.  We were so house bound and Jailyn loved the snow however it was so cold many days we were just stuck.  She hated how many preschool days were cancelled.  We celebrated Baby Adelyn's first bday January 31 and what a blessing she is.   Jailyn loves being Aunt Jailyn to Adelyn.  They are sweet together.  We were thrilled to plan an all inclusive vacation to Jamaica the end of March and beginning of April.  First real vacation for rest and relaxation in three years.  Just what we needed and  they had a kids club for Jailyn to attend.  She did not want to leave to come home and had a blast in kids club in the mornings and evenings.   It gave Mike and I time for us.  Best vacation ever!!!!  Then thrilled spring has sprung better late than never.  Love being able to enjoy our new home outside and be with the neighbors and Jailyn can play with the kids, ride her big girl bike which is a big o deal this year and just have family time together outside .  Jailyn graduated preschool in May.  She loved school and one more year of preschool and off to all day kindergarten.  We are in a Facebook group for the 8th grade graduating class of 2024.  How crazy is that!!!!  We still do gymnastics on Fridays and finish up Dance this coming week with her recital.  Very busy summer and the best is yet to come.  So I think we are caught up and will have to post pictures from the year in the next post.