Wrapping Up 2012!

Trying to catch back up again on my blog. Since my last one 2 months ago here are some of the things going on. Now that we are getting back to somewhat of a normal routine again....hopefully my blog will stay updated more. But no promises. :) 

 

Last blog I has just ran the Battleship half marathon. My friend Christina and I trained for this race. She was unable to run it so since we worked so hard together to train we decided that 2 weeks after the battleship half we would run a half together on Camp Lejune. They have free half's you can sign up to run each month. There just happened to be one right after the battleship one. So we sign up and finally got to run a half together. What we didn't know is that it would be completely full of hills. By the last 2 miles our legs were hurting so bad but we knew if we stopped to walk we wouldn't be able to start running again, so we just kept pushing through thinking of anything to keep our mind off the pain. I am so glad we got to run it together. She has been a great running buddy and now that we are moving I will miss her bunches!!!!

 

 When we got back from the race, Chris and my girls along with Christina's husband and their two girls came to see us finish. They made a sign and brought us flowers. It was FREEZING cold on this day but they braved it to show us some love

 Little Bree has started to lose teeth. She had her bottom 2 come out and now 2 more are loose. She has the cuties smile now and sounds so cute when she talks.

 School stuff that happened. We had Science and Math night for Kindergartners. We had something in each of the class that we had to do as a family. In her classroom they were building shapes with spaghetti and marshmallows and we had to see how high we could go. I have to say this was very challenging but Chris' engineering degree came in handy. :)

 Katie and her class worked on a science project. They all had to do research, test, take pictures and design their presentation. Katie and another classmate where picked to present their project to all the other 2nd grade classes. She did a great job, so proud of her!

So other things going on during the month of December, we found our temporary apartment to live in until our house in SC is built. This is our new place. It has been awhile since we did apartment living but for 6 months I am sure we can handle it. The apartments have lots of extras, one in particular that the girls are excited about. It has a movie theater room you can reserve and watch your own movies on a big screen with movie theater seating. They can't wait for us to have a movie night.

 And of course Christmas was in the mix of all the other things going on. Can you tell that they were excited....they couldn't keep their hands off the presents. :)

 Christmas Eve we went to Christmas Eve service at our church. Nana and Papaw were here as well and got to join us.

 Santa made his stop...I guess the girls were good this year.

 The girls had a great Christmas and got all they asked for. The one item that Chris and I bought them that we didn't even play on was Rock Band. We saw it in a store that had them on clearance. We thought they would like it and it turned out to be the gift they play with the most. It has beginner levels for the guitar and drums so it makes it super easy for them to play. We have had lots of fun jammin' as a family.

My Christmas gift and I was so excited to get it!!!! Garmin watch for my running. It is basically a computer on my wrist and does way more than I really need it to, but I love it!

 

For New Years we headed to Georgia to see Chris' side of the family. We went out with his brother and wife for New Year's Eve. This is honestly the first time since we have had kids that we have stayed up for the new year. I remember why now...because going to bed at 1am and kids get up at 7am is no fun. But it was fun to hang out and ring in the new year with my love. 

It is hard to believe that we are already in 2013 as I make this post. Starting 2012 I started training for my first half marathon, thinking that would be the one and only one I ran....I never thought I would have ran 3 halfs by the end of the year and possibly some in 2013.:)  We had lots of new things happening in the end of 2012 with our upcoming move to SC and lots of new things happening in 2013. As always, we are blessed to have the family we do and the life we live. God has allowed us to know some amazing people in all the places we have lived. I have many friends that I would not have had otherwise if it wasn't for Him. I am looking forward to move to SC to see what He has in store for us there and how He will use us to further his kingdom. I pray for blessings and love for all of you in 2013.