Catching up

I'm sorry it's taken me 7 months to catch you up! So much has happened. Let me try to catch you up as quickly as possible. I will say, there are some events that happened that will need more explanation and they will get it, just not now.

October 2012- We celebrated the kids living with us for 1 year! Crazy, right?!? That means they have been with us for a year and half as of now.

November 2012-We celebrated Thanksgiving here in Austin for the first time. We celebrated with friends we made in the police academy. It was weird being away from all our family, but it was good.

December 2012-We celebrated Christmas here in Austin and in Freeport. Again, we celebrated with friends and then family at home.

January 2013- We got some crazy news. More on this later, for sure.

February 2013- We experienced the worst thing ever. Our sweet, precious Colt was hit by a car on February 13th. It was a rough couple of days with emergency vets and surgeons. The vets were optimistic that Colty would make it through with surgery, but on February 15th, our precious pup passed away. I'll definitely blog about this one because it has taught me so much about myself and love and well, because he was too great of a pet to not share about his awesome life.

March 2013-April 2013 were big blurs. 99% was due to the loss of Colty. But, we did get some exciting news, adoption wise. Again, I will be writing a separate blog about that.

And today is May 1st, CRAZY!!!! I seriously did not realize that today was the 1st of May until I noticed a lot of my friends commenting on FB about it. Time is flying by. I need it to slow down a little.

A brief update about the kids-
Our girl is doing well. She participated in track at her school this year. It was a little harder than she anticipated, but she enjoyed it none the less. She is your typical 14 year old girl. She loves arguing with her brother, rolling her eyes at her mother and father, boy bands and Disney channel, spending as little time with family and as much time with friends as possible, youth group at church and everything else 14 year olds like. She is excited about her future for the first time in a long time, which makes me happy.

Our boy is doing well, as well. He is definitely a 10 year old boy, in that he likes to act crazy to get everyones attention. If he feels that he does not have everyone's attention at a certain time he will do whatever is necessary to obtain it. As you can imagine, this doesn't go very well for him that often. He is really active and likes skateboarding. This of course makes me happy, seeing as I love my skater boy:) He too is excited about his future for the first time. This also makes me happy!

Speaking of that skater boy, he has been a police officer for a year now! A year!!! Crazy how time has flown by, huh?!? He still loves his job. With everything that has been going on in our family I have fallen even more in love with him. I am more thankful for God putting us together than ever. I seriously could not imagine doing life with anyone other than him.

I am doing ok. I won't lie and say that everything is fine. Let's be honest, there are really great things happening in my life right now and one really sucky crappy thing. Getting used to Colt not being around has been way harder than I ever thought it would be. It's different. It hurts more than anything I've ever experienced and I still pray that God will make it better soon.

Ok, so, I caught y'all up for now. I'll hopefully be posting more detailed blogs here within the next week. Feel free to hound me if I don't. I might need it;)