Merry Christmas! Thank you for taking the time to come to our family blog to read our 2010 Christmas letter. As I am sitting here, Kevin is outdoors snow blowing snow that has fallen from a record breaking snow storm. Neither of us has ever seen this much snow fall in one day. Crazy! We have enjoyed being snowed in for two days now. I must say we have done a lot of relaxing!
Once again, we are able to share with you that the Lord has blessed us in numerous ways over this entire year. This year has been mixed with a lot of fun activities and a lot of relaxing moments. We thought it would be fun for us to share with you 5 hightlights of our year by bringing the words to life with pictures. Enjoy!
1. Summers are always short here in Minnesota, so you will see that we cram in as much fun as we can while the warm sun is shining. In June, Kevin and I decided to run our first 5K together. You would not have wanted to witness our attitudes at 5 am each morning as we began training. After a few weeks of training Kevin and I were able to share a few smiles with one another. We are hoping to run our 2nd race next summer.
2. We decided to take a road trip to Colorado with two other couples for our summer vacation. We knew that we were going to have a blast, but what we didn’t know was that we were going to make memories that would last a life time. Words cannot express the amount of fun we had!
3. Kevin informed me that he was in need of a “man trip”. Being a loving wife I told him to go and have fun! Kevin, along with 3 other guys rented a motor home and took a road trip to Ohio and visited the largest theme park in the world, Cedar Point. Good times!
4. We celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary this year by heading to Minneapolis to enjoy the Musical Footloose. It was a wonderful weekend away. What made it even better was that my boss paid for the entire weekend. Thank you Steve!
5. For the last couple of years we have wanted to go see the musical Wicked. When we heard it was coming to Minneapolis there was nothing that was going to stop us from getting tickets to the show! We were able to enjoy the evening with our dear friends. The show was phenomenal!
We have saved the most exciting news last. We are happy to share with you all that we are done with our adoption home study. We are officially “waiting” to be chosen by a birth mom. We are beyond ready to have our family of two become three! Our prayer is that next year we are able to share with you that we have been blessed with a child to raise for the Lord!
May Jesus always be your joy, your hope, and your song. We pray this Christmas and each day of the New Year be directed by His guiding hand of love! Have a wonderful Christmas and a safe New Year!
With Love,
Kev and Cole
