2013, A Year in Review
January: our most "normal" month of the year. Landry started at ASU Prep and we loved it!
February: We took a family trip to Disneyland, my grandma passed away, and I lost my job.
March: Gracie started her surgical journey to 2, even, functioning legs.
April: Gracie had an unexpected surgery to replace a pin and clean out an infection in her external fixator. My dad was shot in the face accidentally on a hunting trip....and survived!!!!!!
May: May was recovering and rehabbing for Gracie, from her 90+ days of solid infections and my dad from his accident.
June: Gracie had surgery to have her fixator removed and cast put on.
July: Gracie had her cast removed and was enjoying her free leg! She also had a hole in her heart closed. Our family announced we were selling our house and moving go Boise, Idaho.
August: Robert got hired as Caldwell High Schools varsity basketball coach!!! The biggest move of our lives.....or mine anyway....I left my hometown and we headed to Boise for a new adventure.
September: Just a hard month of transition.
October: Gracie had another surgery to have an 8-plate put in her knee.
November: We lost out on 2 house offers and walked away from a 3rd after the inspection. Landry and I got the chance to surprise family and friends by showing up for Thanksgiving. We finally found a home church out here in Idaho.
December: Our Christmas trip to AZ got canceled because of 2 months worth of sickness.
This year was hard and challenging. It was filled with more trials and struggles then I can even count or want to remember. The verse for this post is absolutely perfect though. We have survived this year. God stood with us. He gave us the strength we needed to not only survive but grow. He was faithful. Even when I felt alone, or when I was holding Gracie again because she was in so much pain, or had to leave my son for her surgeries, or when we left everything I've ever known and moved to Idaho, or when my little man struggled to transition here, when I was scared, exhausted, overwhelmed....He was there. He never left me and I know that, because I would not have survived this year if He had. He also blessed us this year. I have been able to stay home with my babies, help Gracie heal and recover after her 5 surgeries, take my little man to school and play dates, and be a house wife. This is such a miracle. He answered a prayer and dream of my husbands to be a head boys basketball coach and and run his own program, He surrounded us with friends, new and old to help us thru this year. We were never alone. I am so thankful and grateful for that.
No matter what this year brings we are never alone, and God will give us strength. I and hoping and praying for a year free from life changing crisis, less surgeries for Gracie, less drama, and less change....and instead a year of blessings, and boring normalcy. Lol.
To everyone who made a difference in our lives this year, who sent good thoughts prayed, donated, loved and encouraged us....you will forever be in our hearts and prayers. Thank you....you made a real difference our year!!!!!
(Gracie is doing amazingly well. She is running and playing and has just inspired us all so much. She has at least 1 surgery that we know of in 2014 to transfer a tendon...we will post more on that as it gets closer. Enjoy our year in review in photos)!!!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!! 2014 be good to us!
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2013 In Review, "You're an Overcomer!"
