With our Christmas card this year we sent out a newsletter. There was so much I felt needed to be shared with friends and family. For those of you closest to us we say thank you for all the love and support. It has been a rough year for our family to say the least and God works in very powerful and wonderful ways. He is also very patient, forgiving, and loving. Satan also works in sneaky and conniving ways that can change who you are and what you think and believe.
Here is a copy of our Christmas card and our Christmas newsletter! I hope to continue to update this more regularly and to redesign the blog again. It has been looking this way for far too long! :)
We hope this letter finds you having a very happy holiday season! It has been a crazy year full of ups, downs, joy, sadness, and lots of love and forgiveness! We are so happy to be sending this letter to all of you to include you in our past year!
Tom is still working at Bryan Parker CPA as a payroll clerk. He stays very busy with new clients! We are very thankful for his job and this opportunity for him.
Kortney is working part time at the Homewood Day School as a 4k teacher. She works Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. She decided to put graduate school on the back burner. She also decided to quit JCPenney to simplify all of our lives! J
Jonas turned 5 in October! He will be starting Kindergarten next fall and we are all a little nervous and excited! He is doing really well in his 4k class. He can read some words like, the, and, off, on, all. He is very creative and interested in numbers, words, and letters. It is so much fun to watch him learn and he asks all kinds of questions! He is still crazy about trains and took a trip to Chattanooga, TN for his birthday this year. He is still very loud and LOVES playing outside.
Tinzley turned 2 in May! She had a flip flop themed party. It was a great time! She is in love with Hello Kitty right now! It all started with a Hello Kitty backpack! She is also going to school and is in “Miss Jennifurs” 2k class. She can identify the letter ‘T’ and can count to 13 and spell her name…sometimes J She LOVES to sing and is a definite girly girl. She is an absolute delight to be around and makes us laugh daily!
We look forward to all that God has planned for us in the next ye
ar! We hope all the best for each and every one of you!What we have learned!
• God comes first and everything else falls into place.
• Live life deliberately
• We are “All In”
• Satan is real, so beware!
• Being a parent can be SO much fun!
• Don’t just do, BE!
• Sometimes you have to lose everything to realize EVERYTHING you have to lose!
• Trust, its what friends do!
• God loves us, no matter what so we need to love each other in the same way!
• Forgiveness is not a feeling, it is an action
