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Here is why I believe 2014 will be the best year yet! #1 - our apartment in Del Ray is awesome, and I've already met some great mom friends that live in the surrounding buildings!  #2 - I got a new job! I'm working part-time M-W for a church in Fairfax. I am excited to be there, we have someone great coming to watch Canon at the apartment those days AND I get to be with him Thursdays & Fridays. SUCH a good set-up! #3 - year 3 of marriage! we've had some really good conversations about how we're going to invest in our relationship this year #4 - I've decided I'm going to start a book club #5 - did I mention I get to stay home 2 days/week? This means we have time to travel to see friends and family!!! #6 - our church/school community. we love Immanuel and now that we're settled, I'm ready to invest deep into these friendships we've made so far #7 - in my mind, I'm registered for a 5k in April with a friend and I've made it on th...

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Saturday mornings used to be for sleeping in, College Gameday and football all day long. Not so much anymore! Knowing we didn't want to spend the entire morning inside and feeling the excitement of Fall rolling in (at least in the blog world if not in the actual temperatures) we made a spur of the moment decision to go visit a local farm! It was so much fun and I wouldn't be surprised if we went back before the season is over!  I got some cute video of all the slides, but I'm blogging via my phone right now so they'll have to wait! It's so fun to have a child and re-experience life through his eyes!! We're making ourselves a Fall Weekend Bucket List to be sure we soak up all the fun this season! And of course we got home in time to watch Clemson's win over Wake! Go Tigers!!!  Happy Fall Y'all!! 

I am very please to announce that I am now employed! And as has been the theme of these past few months, it was not what I set out to do, but I am so happy! I am now the Lead AM Teacher for the older 2 year-old class at Bright Start Learning Center! Though I graduated Clemson with a degree in Early Childhood Education and have been in and out of schools in many different settings, I've never had my own class! To say I'm not a little nervous or intimidated would be a lie, but I'm more excited than anything else. It is a relief to have the job search over and I can't say enough how happy that it landed in this (unexpected) place! When I first started job searching, I was going specifically for church or school administration - admissions, secretary, assistant director, etc. Having come off a year and a half of administrative work at K-Life, which I loved, I thought it would be a great fit. I had one interview with an international adoption agency that I was really ex...

We had a fabulous day celebrating our sweet bug! It was a low-key party with good family friends and some of the staff from Aaron's school. We were super lucky to have Canon's Godmother, Kim, fly in from New Orleans and another of our favorite New Orleans friends, Rebecca, drive up from her new home in Harrisonburg! We are so grateful for the people that love Canon and were able to celebrate with us! Thanks Kim for taking these pictures!    Happy Birthday Sweet Boy! We love you and we love being your parents! Thank you for being such an easy, joyful, laid-back baby! We've got his 1 year appointment on the 26th so I'll share his stats then, and I have a ton more fun photos of the weekend to share later!