Highlights of 2011

I started the year out having to drop everything and go home and take care of my mom for three months after she fell and broke her ankle.

My sister came in during this time on the weekends enabling me to spend some downtime hanging with girlfriends and celebrating Valentines Day weekend with my hubby!

I got to wrap my arms around this lady a couple of times last year. Now I get to do ministry with her and this summer we will be visiting Kansas to see her and Pastor David for the first time in about 15 or 16 years!

This group has been together for more years then I can count. We have watched our kids grow up, our husbands become longtime friends and through it all we have maintained a bond that has not been broken over time, space or location! We don't get together as often as we would like...something we hope to change in 2012!

My Birthday month (April) was definitely unforgettable. It started off with me spending my last few days traveling back and forth between our home and my moms while she recuperated. Then me celebrating my 47th birthday in the middle of a tornado and ending the month celebrating the marriage of Prince William and his lovely wife Kate!

Although I am no longer a part of the Leading and Loving It Team I will always remember being a part of this wonderful ministry and meeting so many wonderful and sweet women at the Armed and Dangerous retreat (not to mention visiting Nashville for the first time). May was also the month I stepped out on faith and spoke at our Women's Ministry weekend at WABC.

Mount Vernon

We spent a large part of June and July hanging out with family and friends.

Family Reunion

Disney

Souls Sista Anniversary

Tampa

August was our busiest month. Family reunions, trips to my favorite place in the world (after a five year absence) . Getting to surprise my souls sista Kelli and her husband Mike on their 25th wedding anniversary, and getting to meet Pastor Bruce and Heather. All within the span of one week! LOL

Little did we know we would be headed to Birmingham AL for a funeral within months of seeing our friends Cass and Mike in Florida.

Who can forget the trip to DC that seemed like it would never end. Getting pampered by the WOF team, and getting to meet Mary Mary (not to mention getting to ride back to the hotel with them)! I will never get on a train again on the same weekend as a earthquake and major hurricane! Of course I would have missed a few first if I hadn't gone...including a trek through a national park and my first trip to an Ikea store! LOL

Definitely a highlight for us this fall was getting to see old friends from our military days after nearly 22 years!

Celebrating three years at WABC!

We ended the year in a flurry of holiday activities. Thanksgiving Day and Christmas seemed to have come and gone so fast......but the best part was just getting to spend time with family and friends!

2011 was an amazing, wild roller coaster ride. Its been a fulfilling, at times frustrating, sometimes happy, other times very sad, mind blowing year. We have lost loved ones, seen the birth of new ministries, the end of some dreams and the start of new bigger and better ones. I don't know what 2012 has in store for us but I have learned through the years that whatever it holds.....God will see me through! Peace, love and happiness to you and yours! Looking forward to sharing the upcoming year with each of you and who knows.......we might just meet in person. Happy New Year from our family to yours!!!!!!