Happy New Year!

As I look back on 2014, we had such a wonderful year. We found out we were pregnant with baby #2 and that it was a boy! Patrick and I traveled to New York, San Francisco, and Cancun. We got to go to the Masters.  We celebrated Teagan turning 2 years old and have watched her personality continue to grow. And then the highlight of our year was when we welcomed a 9lb 4oz bundle of sweetness into our lives. Reynolds has added so much joy to our family, and we have loved getting to see Teagan in her new role as a big sister. And then I started a new role too when I hung up my teaching hat and traded it in for staying at home with my kids. It was a good, good year and I am thankful.

I am seriously so in love with our family that it hurts sometimes. I look around at our life now and want to hold so, so, so tightly to everything. And sometimes {honestly more than I'd like to admit} I'm struck with fear that this life as it is now will be taken from me in some form. I think the newness of love {i.e. adding Reynolds to our lives} can be so scary, and it has been a struggle to open my grip and give it to God. I remember going through the same thing when Patrick and I got married and then again when Teagan was born.  Even though I know...

1. Whether or not I hold on tightly or not does not add to my control of this life,

2. It is better in His hands anyway, and
3. Letting loose doesn't mean losing. 

I am so incredibly thankful for the blessings that God has poured out on us in the form of our family and our good health. I pray daily that He would help me trust Him more and continue to bless our family. My prayer is that 2015 will be a year that continues to be filled with laughter, sweet memories, and more joy as we grow closer as a family and to Him.

Oh, I could go on and on...but here is a look at how we started our 2015.

Every year we go to my aunt and uncle {Gigi and Papa G}'s house for the traditional {and by traditional, I mean seriously delicious} New Year's lunch. It is always a perfect start to the year.

 

And this boy is tuckered out from all the fun. 

{And looking so big. He's not quite 4 months old yet, but I don't think people believe us.}

Happy New Year! We hope 2014 was good to you and that 2015 will be even better!