This has to be one of my favorite things to write all year as reflection and gratitude of the great moments always trump the hard times! The few stressful moments of our year were also the best moments! Moving and having a newborn filled me with wild emotions matching Declan's toddler extremes!! Ultimate excitement and happiness, quickly followed by (unnecessary) fear and sadness. But everything works out the way it was supposed to, and 2015 was definitely one of the best years of our lives!
Our travels of this year (and the next few years I'm sure) kept us close with lots of short trips to Wisconsin over Easter , to the Dells and attending the PGA Championship at Whistling Straights for Evan's first vacation! We got to be there for St. Nick's day/Timmy's birthday this past weekend too! We didn't get to see and fireworks at Whiteface cabin this year awaiting Firecracker's arrival! But our California family made it to Hutch to meet Evan before they headed back to the west coast and that meant a ton to us! We are hoping to "repay" the visit and get there in 2016!
Andy is no longer in the world of blue tape and is now working in SAP (Systems Applications and Products) at the 3M center. I may be getting a little too used to this "not-working" thing basically being "off" since June, but I think I worked 2x as hard most days than teaching! It was a full time job relocating with a newborn and unpacking our new home, but my extended maternity leave couldn't have been better timing. It would have been 10x more stressful if I had been working. Back to HLWW in January and excited to see my students and coworkers!
Declan is busy being a chef everyday with his "tool". He loves books, Netflix, music, art, trucks and trains! He is getting lucky still asking for new parks but completing our Hutch Park Tour was a ton of fun! Evan is working hard as a 5 month old flipping all over and scooting already to what he wants. His two brothers (Dec and Croix) are his favorite people getting the best belly giggles out of him! Croix loves the new house since it is so close to a small walking park and a 10 minute car ride to a great dog park. Bouncer and Fuzzy have plenty of places to hide from hug tackling Declan and his friends' that chased them all over the place at our housewarming party.
The winter snow we did have got us ready for the Christmas season with candy canes, snowmen and painting snow! We had fun decorating our tree and learned today in the kid's Bible App why we decorate trees. Declan is having fun finding our elf, Happy Glitterballs, every morning and kissing baby Jesus goodnight before prayers thanking him for his birthday month and being the best gift! We will see Santa ride by on a firetruck tonight before we unwrap our Christmas book for stories! I love the fun traditions we are starting and continuing and looking forward to fondue on Christmas Eve in our new home! We wish your family a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday season and a marvelous 2016!
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