Feb-March....I'm catching up people!

February and March of this year....we moved into our new home in Amarillo!

Girls outside our bedroom window. Gracie licks everything!

my kitchen window:)

The pics were taken before we hung anything on the walls, but you get the idea.

Hanging out in daddy's office at Trinity

eating a roast beef sandwich on the way to an event we booked before moving to Amarillo. From San Antonio it would have been a 3 hour trip. From Amarillo - 12! It was a long day of travel.

Hanging out at Orange Leaf as we celebrated our paperwork moving into the Archives office.

Right after I comb every sweet curly lock, her curls shrink up and look so cute!

Making the best out of the grocery store here as we grieve the loss of HEB.

Home school room. Need to post a more current pic. Its looking really cute now.

Water colors on the side patio.

Awesome new friends!

Same precious, old tricks!

December 2011 - Jan 2012

December... Time for goodbyes and new hello's. On December 6 my friend, Elissa, and my other adoptive mom friends showered me both for Sunny's birthday and as a goodbye. We were set to pull out of San Antonio on Dec 16 for our move to Amarillo. It was a beautiful party stirred by mixed emotions. At the time, I thought Sunny would be home in 1-3 months. And there was much anticipation about our move and Billy's new opportunities. But saying goodbye to dear friends, a beautiful home and everything familiar was tough. Not to mention the exhaustion of packing with 2 little ones around.

The move was relatively smooth. We first moved into a rent house. The first week in Amarillo, Billy had to have surgery to remove a kidney stone on Christmas Eve in a city where we knew only a few...and those few were celebrating Christmas.  Billy was in a lot of pain. And I found snowy Amarillo to be eerily quiet. However, the snow was a blessing as it eased the girls' transition incredibly!

The pictures below are many and out of order, but they sum up our first month in Amarillo except for Gracie's 3rd birthday which I will post next.

White Christmas!

Palo Duro Canyons

Me with Elissa's oldest, Hope for Sunny's birthday/shower

Elissa's made-from-scratch cake, yum!

Christmas pics at JW Marriot before our move.

Coats ready for the Amarillo snow.

Saying goodbye to Maliah 

First day in Amarillo

Our tiny Christmas tree (it was all we could do since we had just moved and Billy had just had surgery)

Girls - first thing Christmas morning

Gracie could not stop eating snow

SNOW FUN!

beautiful Libby

Precious Gracie

Hiking in the Canyons...Someone's got some attitude!

Billy and I participated in one of Trinity Fellowship's most important events of the year - Zion. The first four days of the year they have worship services to seek the Lord for the year ahead. Billy was introduced to the congregation and I had a chance to help lead worship. It was an exciting, exhausting, wonderful time.

It was the middle of January when I realized we had much further to go for Sunny's homecoming. It was a dark, tough day for me. In all, January is a blur to me. Unpacking, homeschooling, making new friends, adjusting to a new life style....what a month!