This December was awesome! We had so many fun events with the Rowlan's. Grinch Night, Snowman Night, Baking Day, Polar Express Night, Reindeer Day..im sure im forgetting some but they were all fun times! I think my favorite was decorating the trains and watching brieson and kambren as reindeer get shot by petyl with the nerf gun.
Christmas Eve Services at CCV were so good and fun but very honest with what is real...what we all need I really liked it. Went once with my TMB girls and then with all the Rowlans. If u wanna check it out or send it to someone else go here ->
http://www.ccvonline.com/Arena/default.aspx?page=14268&item=170We had our first(many more to come) SMY Party! The triangle reunited with added family and babies! See Brandon Morgan, Amanda Schoech and Myself(Christine Young-now Rowlan) were all very best friends in Highschool and at CCV. We all got baptized together at our first CIY in the Ocean! Now we are grownups and the S and M moved to other states BUT S cam back and it is only a matter of time before M is back too! We had a great night just talking and catching up...I am looking forward to more nights like that! SIDE NOTE: We didnt take any pictures because we are lame!
We were also blessed with an End of the year snow. Yes thats right SNOW in PHOENIX! It wasnt a lot nor did it stick but it was still amazing. Petyl and I had just bundled up to go play with her new Barbie Jeep and then i saw the little white flurries in the air...it was so simple but amazing all at once. It was only a few minutes and then it stopped and we came in a little after. I was pondering the Phonician Snow and it made me get all emotional(yes thats not a big shocker with me but w/e). I know it isnt like a miraculous thing happened but well it kinda is. I mean how often do we see snow here in Phoenix? Just those few minutes of Snow reminded me that God is so wonderful...he is so big and so amazing and sometimes..well a lot of times I forget that.
It has been a crazy year for me. The end of my pregnancy was a lot harder than I had planned. Hubby has been super busy with work and school so I am home alone with our beautiful but crazy babies a lot. Our car's have taken turns popping out on us so it seems they are never both drivable at the same time. I have been really busy with church stuff but without a consistent vehicle to drive it makes being a part of everything more stressful. Plus all the regular little dramas of relationships and family stuff...it all can kinda bring me down. But the big picture is that regardless of all that I have had the most AMAZING year. My body issues from pregnancy all worked out and went back to normal. We added a beautiful rollie pollie baby Haylo to our family and big sister Petyl is getting smarter and amazinger everyday. We have had a lot of awesome people help us out with rides. Church..well church is becoming way more than just a Sunday service for me again. It is also awesome to see Petyl embrace nursery and all the activities. She Prays every night and she sings the songs in nursery..she loves going to church and bible study...its so cool to watch her. I have little extended family branching out all over the place because of church activities. Hubby is going great in school..did have to drop a class this semester but got A's in the other classes. I dunno sometimes we go through little hard things but no matter what in the end we see that God is great. No matter how tough or how frustrating things are he just keeps comin in with a few sprinkles of snow on my life to lift me up and get me on track. :)
Speaking about being on track...it's time for Resolutions!
This year I really want to try and refocus the resolutions to be...real and then follow through!
1. Get in a T group and Read the whole New Testament(then hopefully move on to the Old too!)
2. Continue learning about and committing more of myself to God.
3. Get Organized. In the house and in Life...and stay up on it!
4. Exercise(like plan and do it) at least once a week.-Preferably a dance class!
5. Eat Fast food Less than Twice a week(includes Starbucks and ice cream too!)
6. Be better. I want to be the Virtuous Woman in Proverbs for God, my family and for myself.
Thats it....Hello 2011 I am ready for ya! :)
Here are some pictures too :)
